{"id":1488,"date":"2012-02-12T17:56:42","date_gmt":"2012-02-12T17:56:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/captivafishing.net\/?p=1488"},"modified":"2025-06-08T04:21:24","modified_gmt":"2025-06-08T09:21:24","slug":"friday-february-10-2012-sanibel-captiva-fishing-charters-dolphins-great-blue-herons-and-other-companions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/captivafishing.net\/?p=1488","title":{"rendered":"Friday, February 10, 2012 ~ Sanibel & Captiva fishing charters … dolphins, great blue herons and other companions"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Charlie, the great blue heron<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Been thinking about dolphins lately which made me want to repost this piece from last April on dolphins and Charlie, the great blue heron …<\/p>\n

Dolphins are almost always our companions at some point in our fishing charters. \u00a0I would say we see them on 80%+ of our trips, maybe 90%+. \u00a0New folks on the boat are always surprised and delighted by how close the dolphins come to the boat and how the dolphins seem to take great joy in playing in the wake of the boat.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Both dolphins and humans fish the bay and the gulf around Sanibel and Captiva for the same reason \u2013 there are a lot of fish in these waters and it is generally a very healthy ecosystem. \u00a0An adult Atlantic bottle-nose dolphin eats about 40 pounds of fish a day, so they are constantly feeding. \u00a0The dolphins in our area are a little bit smaller, about 8-10 feet at maturity, than the bootle-nose dolphins found more broadly in the Atlantic.<\/p>\n

While we sometimes have to literally run away from dolphins because they are so nosy, meddlesome and busy trying to steal our fish, I am a big fan of the dolphins and we\u2019re lucky to have them.<\/p>\n

Charlie, the great blue heron, was another companion that spent years with me before Hank took over his first mate position on the boat. \u00a0Charlie\u2019s territory was the flats and inlets right around Castaways on Santiva.<\/p>\n

I would see Charlie every morning when I left at first light and he would spend the day guarding his territory against any encroachment from other great blue herons and fishing on the mud bars and and mangroves. \u00a0When I returned at noon from the first trip or at the end of the day, Charlie would fly to my boat and perch himself on the bow as my guide as we came in to the dock. \u00a0His purpose was to wait, hope that I would become distracted, and steal \u00a0scraps (or the filets) as I cleaned the day\u2019s catch.<\/p>\n

I also had to watch Charlie like a hawk, because he was devious and had a tendency to raid the live well, if I left it untended!<\/p>\n

The fishing was great this week ! \u00a0 Let\u2019s go fishing!<\/p>\n

Fair winds and following seas,<\/p>\n

Captain Joey Burnsed ~ call 239-472-8658 or email\u00a0captjoefred@gmail to book a Sanibel & Captiva fishing charter.<\/p>\n

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Been thinking about dolphins lately which made me want to repost this piece from last April on dolphins and Charlie, the great blue heron … Dolphins are almost always our companions at some point in our fishing charters. \u00a0I would say we see them on 80%+ of our trips, maybe 90%+. \u00a0New folks on the […]<\/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-1488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-image"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/captivafishing.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/captivafishing.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/captivafishing.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/captivafishing.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/captivafishing.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1488"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/captivafishing.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20446,"href":"https:\/\/captivafishing.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1488\/revisions\/20446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/captivafishing.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/captivafishing.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/captivafishing.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}