Recent content by phatdaddy

True G, to me the flounder was the star of the show. Fried the trout, blackened the redfish and froze the flounder for BIL to take home to north Georgi.

Went fishing yesterday with my BIL and his son. Had to delay the start for an hour due to a a pretty good thunder storm. Ended u p having a great time and brought home enough to feed the family Great time was had by all!

Been blowin and/or raining here for THREE weeks!!

Congrats on the camping trip and Daniel’s first fish. Getting the cushions was a nice bonus also. Now that u have the pic posting down, looking forward to more.

North Florida checking in. Not much happening here. HOT already. No real fishing news, been doing a few sprinkler calls. Thanks for rattling the cage,G.

Nice, sounds like you’re getting it dialed in. Sometimes when trolling for king we will drag a couple of 5 gallon buckets tied to the stern cleats to slow our roll. Also explains why there are so many buckets with handles ripped off floating in the gulf

You’re gonna really enjoy it Blue. I had a three sided enclosure on mine for 15-20 years. Made January,February & March much more fun. Skycopper,Thanks for keeping it in the family.

“Out on the Reef” on YouTube installed the Sea Keeper tabs on his Parker. He installed them himself and had some on and off videos. Pretty interesting system

I would guess they made all transoms the same and cut out what they needed to for the different engine choices.

Just curious, is the IO transom the same thickness as the OB.

Was wondering because my Garmin’s voltage is usually 1-1.5 volts lower than the Mercury gauge.

do you have the smart gauge for the merc?

We were in 90'-110'. Not super deep. We had frozen northern mackeral for cut bait. Would have loved to have some live pinfish.

Know what u mean,Scook. Fishing hardly ever goes according to the plan. Most of our good red snapper is 30 + miles out of our pass. The days of small single engine boats catching a limit of NICE snapper are few and far apart. Spotlock and GPS have taken a toll on the inshore spots. this...

Friday was the opening day of red snapper season for 2026. Friend invited me on a trip. of course weather was a little sporty. ended up with a limit of fish, 2 per angler. Also caught some nice beeliners(vermillion snapper). rather that the standard fish on the dock shot, thought this...