Look forward to seeing the selected date.

What port/town do you guys leave from?

What depth do you normaly fish?

Fish oil rigs? rough bottom?

Can we bring live bait? can I bring a Big cooler for bait?

I fish for grouper the most.So snapper would be fine.

I am in too. Prefer snapper also.

Joe

we will have to wait for an exact date till the Red Snapper and AJ seasons are posted...once those dates are established then we can start working on the date...Cheers ^_^

i am in for 2 places

might need some advice on tackle and such as am a rank newbie to this

Wakeman and Izzo in. I like the sound of late June - mid July and Snapper.

Carter and Shack are in.

Can we keep them alive this time. What was with the live well, everything died last time.

people put a couple predator fish in the live well and they went off on the piggies...

I have an opinion on the live well question. Porckchop said that mixing the different species was what killed some of the bait fish in the live well but I have another theory. Some of the fish were deep hooked and were injured while removing the hook from their stomache and gills. That is what I believe killed some of the bait fish in the live well. I spent most of the trip fishing from the back of the boat and there were plenty of piggies that survived. I was even finding them alive late on the second day but several people gave up on fishing them out of the live well. We were also catching lots of large snapper on the piggies and some decided to fish for larger baitfish like barjacks in order to target larger fish like amberjack. On Diez Tuna we caught a good number of piggies for the live well and they survived the entire 56 hours.

chuck there was no ribbon fish ect in the tank on diez or trout only pinfish also sunscreen on folks hands is bad on the bait. i think more care was taken on the bait on diez IMO

I sent an email back to all in the group, but will state on here also... count me in for one if we can go after snapper. As for the live well, many of the piggy perch did seem to survive, as well as a couple of bar jacks that were used the following morning. Not sure what exactly killed the fish that did die, but the water definitely changed color.

Joe

Either fish would be OK with me.
Some vermilion snapper would be nice too.

The meals last time were great, so Im on board with the group meals again.


Few things I learned last trip.

*learn when to sleep on this trip
*bring a towel and soap
*lots of lead and hooks are on the bottom of the ocean now
*many big red snappers died on the top of the water
*drink the lemonade to stay cool and hydrated
*king fish like 15 dollar jigs

I don't remember ribbonfish in the live well for the deep drop but I can't imagine a sand trout would kill a piggie? I do remember when the water changed color..it was after we started adding chubs. Nasty fish! I think you guys will have no problems keeping piggies alive for this trip. I would like to go with you all but will be fishing in Alaska in July. Can't really do both in such short order. Then again...never say never...

I do not believe ribbons will survive in the live well. The scat cat has a freezer under the stairs that the Captain let us put ribbons in as we caught them.

I'm in for 1. Prefer red snapper but AJ will work. Group meal is great

Folks, it might be necessary to consider doing the TxG3D charter in 2012 during the week instead of a weekend. That may be the only option to schedule a 36 hour charter on the Scat Cat during red snapper season.
We suggest that folks post up whether or not they can do a week day 36 hour charter. It may be a moot point, but we don’t like dropping surprises on people, so we want everyone to be aware of this possible option.

Willie,
what days during the week would the boat be able to do? like leaving Thursday morning and coming back Friday afternoon or leaving Wednesday morning and coming back Thursday afternoon?

TxG, just don’t know at this point. Generally Tuesdays and Wednesdays have the least number of people wanting to fish a head boat when snapper season is open. Most head boats are full every day of the week during the summer
Again this may be the only possible plan of action when snapper season is open, or it may not be an issue at all.

they last about an hour, then turn to mush.... they need to be put on ice immediately so their flesh stays hard. deckhands told me this a few years ago.

I am at best a maybe until I know dates, but weekend or weekday will make no difference.

It wouldn't make any difference to me whether it is a weekday or weekend.

But Willie, I don't see the issue. I don't see why they wouldn't do a charter on the weekend during Red Snapper season. DSH does charters on the weekend without regard to what the season is. Their rates are higher on weekends than weekdays. I know DSH has three boats and they have two but I'd almost be willing to bet that they will still do a charter on the weekend.

I would think that a phone call would find out.

Oldster, our focus is assuming the worst case scenario of an even shorter red snapper season in 2012. We’ve proposed a June set of dates and two sets of July dates. F.W. will respond to our proposal, and we will submit it to TxGrizz for his approval or rejection. Until we get a handle on which time frame of a seven day week might/will work, we can’t propose a specific set of dates to TxGrizz.
Hopefully there will be a set proposed date by the end of this week.

TT, phone calls have already been made. As we posted above, F.W. will respond to our proposal, we will submit it to TxGriz, and we will go from there. Again, by Friday we should have a solid answer regarding the Scat Cat.