Chandeleur Trip

Every year now for the past couple of year me and my dad get a group of friends to rent out one of the Chandeleur boats for a father/son trip. It seems like every year right before our trip there is always a bad report of people not catching a lot trout around Chandeleur. This year was by far the worst that we had heard. With the trip before our's only catching about 30 trout in 2 days, we even had Capt. George call us and ask us if we wanted to cancel because the fishing was so bad at Chandeleur. We decided to go even with the bad reports with an "everyday is different" attitude. I'll tell you what we knocked their lights out! Even though we didn't catch the 350 trout like we did the year before. We still managed to catch 155 of the prettiest trout I have ever seen, most averaging around 2 1/2 pounds. I caught my personal best stringer wade fishing: 13 trout that none were under 22" inches. This is by far the best trip Capt. George and crew on the Joka's Wild have had this year. I don't know if it's that the trout are starting to show back up at Chandeleur or that there moon and tide was just right, or we're just good fishermen (which we are [wink]). Safe to say the trip was a success and we already have our trip booked again for next year.

I would recommend to anyone that likes to fish for speckled trout (if you can afford it) to book a trip with Capt. George on the Joka's Wild or any of the Chandeleur boats (Due South, Beach Water, Southern Bell, Double Trouble) its a **** of a time.