Hank Baron and company had an EPIC day offshore capped off with a massive swordfish weighing over 250lbs! Here’s the story in his own words…

As with fishing as in life, some days you’re the bug and some days you’re the windshield. It’s safe to say Josh, Billy and the rest of the crew of the Flippin Tail were the entire windshield, absolutely crushing it deep dropping before our most recent cold front moved in. Billy landed his personal best tilefish at 40lbs! Keep an eye on those weather windows folks — there’s gold in them there waves!

This past week provided some great opportunities to run offshore. And there were multiple anglers that decided to take advantage of these weather windows to GO DEEP! (Sorry, still hung up on the playoff games).

We decided to take a family vacation to Homosassa to do a little scalloping this past week. It was a trip we have done many times. I started going years before in the 80’s when my parents first took my brother and I to Crystal River. It was always a great adventure and quality time with family and friends. Somewhere along the way we started staying in Homosassa, just a little south of Crystal River.

Spring is by far one of my favorite times of the year to fish here in east Central Florida. We are transitioning away from our winter patterns which typically provides us with better weather days to get out on the water. It’s obviously not as hot and calm as the summer months, but there are still plenty of advantageous opportunities to go fishing.

One of the things I enjoy most about fishing is that it brings people together. There is nothing like you and few friends spending a day on the water and coming home victorious with fish in the cooler and stories to tell!

The plan was to hit the surf early Friday morning… that was the plan. However, we enjoyed thanksgiving so much, apparently, we were not ready for it to end Thursday evening so my brother and I decided to stay up to the wee hours of the morning solving all of the world’s problems with Captain Morgan.

Check out the screaming deals at Pirates Best Marine going on for the month of October!

We had several days of calm seas this past week and some of the guys with bigger boats ventured to the Otherside to look for yellowfin tuna. They did pretty well for themselves, to say the least. Adrian Martinez of Handler Fishing Supply in Merritt Island and some friends were among those with really impressive hauls. Nice job, guys!

Steve Goff of Substate Pest Management cleaned up with his friends on a tuna trip!

Billy’s personal best at 91 lbs!

Here is a photo of Brian Walters, son of Kyle “bass master” Walters, with a 40lb. gag grouper!

Ted Kimmey with his son Graham. They landed this tarpon this afternoon.

Laila caught this nice tripletail while out fishing with her dad!

Steve with a big black drum he caught while fishing with FSFA Grand Master, Chris Pashos. He was points fishing and nailed this one and a couple other fish, which promoted him to “Master Angler” status in the Club. This brute was 41.2 lbs and he caught it on 15 lb test.

Steve Goff of Sunstate Pest Management and crew crushed the red snapper this weekend out of Port Canaveral on his boat, Southern Charm.

Darren & Curly cleaned up on the final weekend for red snapper out of Port Canaveral.

Mark Justine and friends enjoyed snapper time in 180ft!