{"id":784,"date":"2011-06-04T23:49:14","date_gmt":"2011-06-04T23:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.captivafishing.net\/?p=784"},"modified":"2018-06-28T18:17:40","modified_gmt":"2018-06-28T23:17:40","slug":"784","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.captivafishing.net\/?p=784","title":{"rendered":"Saturday, 6\/4\/11 &#8230; huge goliath grouper off Captiva"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_791\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-791\" style=\"width: 1944px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.captivafishing.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/6-4-11-Hank-Goliath-Grouper.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-791\" title=\"Goliath Grouper\" src=\"http:\/\/www.captivafishing.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/6-4-11-Hank-Goliath-Grouper-e1307276192549.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1944\" height=\"1898\" srcset=\"https:\/\/old.captivafishing.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/6-4-11-Hank-Goliath-Grouper-e1307276192549.jpg 1944w, https:\/\/old.captivafishing.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/6-4-11-Hank-Goliath-Grouper-e1307276192549-300x293.jpg 300w, https:\/\/old.captivafishing.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/6-4-11-Hank-Goliath-Grouper-e1307276192549-768x750.jpg 768w, https:\/\/old.captivafishing.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/6-4-11-Hank-Goliath-Grouper-e1307276192549-1024x1000.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/old.captivafishing.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/6-4-11-Hank-Goliath-Grouper-e1307276192549-690x674.jpg 690w, https:\/\/old.captivafishing.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/6-4-11-Hank-Goliath-Grouper-e1307276192549-980x957.jpg 980w, https:\/\/old.captivafishing.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/6-4-11-Hank-Goliath-Grouper-e1307276192549-50x50.jpg 50w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1944px) 100vw, 1944px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-791\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hank &amp; Goliath Grouper!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Caught bait at Blind Pass bridge\u00a0this morning and then ran down to Redfish Pass on the north end of Captiva to pick up my clients and catch smaller bait.<\/p>\n<p>We started off catching ladyfish, mackeral, jacks and catfish on the bay side of North Captiva.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_790\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-790\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.captivafishing.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/6-4-11-Nice-Snook.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-790\" title=\"Nice Snook\" src=\"http:\/\/www.captivafishing.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/6-4-11-Nice-Snook-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/old.captivafishing.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/6-4-11-Nice-Snook-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/old.captivafishing.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/6-4-11-Nice-Snook-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/old.captivafishing.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/6-4-11-Nice-Snook-690x920.jpg 690w, https:\/\/old.captivafishing.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/6-4-11-Nice-Snook-980x1307.jpg 980w, https:\/\/old.captivafishing.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/6-4-11-Nice-Snook.jpg 1944w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-790\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nice Snook!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>After that, we headed down the beach side of Captiva to look for tarpon. \u00a0There were many fishermen, but few\u00a0 fish.<\/p>\n<p>We decided to go offshore where we caught a huge goliath grouper, a nice gag grouper and a large snook.<\/p>\n<p>Hank took a very keen interest in that goliath grouper! \u00a0It was 200+ pounds and was the biggest I have caught on a charter trip in the gulf off Sanibel &amp; Captiva.<\/p>\n<p>Another great day of charter fishing off Captiva!<\/p>\n<p>Fair winds and following seas,<\/p>\n<p>Captain Joey Burnsed ~ call 239-472-8658 or email captjoefred@gmail to book a charter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Caught bait at Blind Pass bridge\u00a0this morning and then ran down to Redfish Pass on the north end of Captiva to pick up my clients and catch smaller bait. We started off catching ladyfish, mackeral, jacks and catfish on the bay side of North Captiva. After that, we headed down the beach side of Captiva [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-image"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.captivafishing.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.captivafishing.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.captivafishing.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.captivafishing.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.captivafishing.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=784"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/old.captivafishing.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14745,"href":"https:\/\/old.captivafishing.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784\/revisions\/14745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.captivafishing.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.captivafishing.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.captivafishing.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}