{"id":784,"date":"2011-06-04T23:49:14","date_gmt":"2011-06-04T23:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/captivafishing.net\/?p=784"},"modified":"2025-06-08T15:59:36","modified_gmt":"2025-06-08T20:59:36","slug":"784","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/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=\"https:\/\/captivafishing.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/6-4-11-Hank-Goliath-Grouper.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-791\" title=\"Goliath Grouper\" src=\"https:\/\/captivafishing.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/6-4-11-Hank-Goliath-Grouper-e1307276192549.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"1944\" height=\"1898\" srcset=\"https:\/\/captivafishing.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/6-4-11-Hank-Goliath-Grouper-e1307276192549.webp 1920w, https:\/\/captivafishing.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/6-4-11-Hank-Goliath-Grouper-e1307276192549-768x750.webp 768w, https:\/\/captivafishing.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/6-4-11-Hank-Goliath-Grouper-e1307276192549-50x50.webp 50w, https:\/\/captivafishing.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/6-4-11-Hank-Goliath-Grouper-e1307276192549-300x293.webp 300w, https:\/\/captivafishing.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/6-4-11-Hank-Goliath-Grouper-e1307276192549-1024x1000.webp 1024w, https:\/\/captivafishing.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/6-4-11-Hank-Goliath-Grouper-e1307276192549-690x674.webp 690w, https:\/\/captivafishing.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/6-4-11-Hank-Goliath-Grouper-e1307276192549-980x957.webp 980w\" sizes=\"(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=\"https:\/\/captivafishing.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/6-4-11-Nice-Snook.webp\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-790\" title=\"Nice Snook\" src=\"https:\/\/captivafishing.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/6-4-11-Nice-Snook-225x300.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/captivafishing.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/6-4-11-Nice-Snook-225x300.webp 225w, https:\/\/captivafishing.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/6-4-11-Nice-Snook-768x1024.webp 768w, https:\/\/captivafishing.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/6-4-11-Nice-Snook-690x920.webp 690w, https:\/\/captivafishing.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/6-4-11-Nice-Snook-980x1307.webp 980w, https:\/\/captivafishing.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/6-4-11-Nice-Snook.webp 1440w\" sizes=\"(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"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/captivafishing.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784","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=784"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/captivafishing.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20594,"href":"https:\/\/captivafishing.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/784\/revisions\/20594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/captivafishing.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/captivafishing.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/captivafishing.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}