Captain_Tim
WOW Deep run anyone?
Saw this on the satellite imagery and had to share, this is a loop current 75miles from Venice ………. pelagic fish anyone?
Gerber Pocket knife
I just ordered a new pocket knife for myself and I am looking to sell my old one, its power springs assisted opening, serrated and flat edge pocket knife. Handle is made from composit materal to keep the weight lighter, cost me about $60 but selling it for $25 o.b.o.
Call or text Tim at 407-436-6268 or shoot me an email at captaintimnoe@live.com
Offshore shoot for fishing show
So two good friends of mine are in the process of creating a new fishing show called 3F Adventures to be syndicated on network tv, they have already shot three ”pilot” episodes that are on youtube and Facebook and they have already had over 100,000 views! So they asked me if I wanted to do an offshore episode a few weeks ago and of course I jumped at the chance but with scheduling conflicts, weather and other trips having come up it took awhile to get a day on the water. This past Sunday was the only day that meshed with all of our schedules and the weather but of course it had to be “super bowl Sunday” so we had to be back at the dock at 3pm……..(I hate time frames).
As a side note to keep in mind, Sunday was basically a full moon so I really had to pay close attention to the soluner tables, the major feed period was 9:47am-11:47am. Anyone who fishes alot offshore knows how important this is. With this being said I had to produce snapper, grouper and amberjack for the camera man on the boat so he could get all the shots in one day, not an easy task given the situation.
Any way we meet at the dock at 7am, do about an hour of interviewing for the camera and we are off to the fishing grounds. We arrive at the spot and get set to film right at 9:30am, baits go down and its snapper and grouper constant for about 2 hours but no AJ’s…….now I’m getting worried so we pick up and run to a spring in 100ft of water. We get there and the fish-finder is lit up like a christmas tree with AJ’s, more than I have seen in a long time, I mean there were 60ft of AJ’s marked above the spring. I anchor right over the spring drop down a big blue runner and nothing no takers, so I try grunts…..nothing, I try shrimp, pinfish, live sardines, threadfin, butterfly jigs, bucktail jigs, tube lures I mean I tryed everything I couldn’t buy a bite. So I put 4 rods down at the same time all with different baits at different depths and set them in the rod holders and we waited. Finally at 1:55pm literally 5 minutes before I had to start calling it a day we get our first and only AJ, got it on film, pulled the anchor and headed home. All in all it was a good shoot, the episode should be available for viewing in about a month.
Here are some pictures of Lauren (the TV show Host) with some of our adventures of the day.
Offshore Tournament Entry for January
Angler: Tim Noe
#1Red Grouper 31inch
#2Red Grouper 33inch
#1Red Snapper 24.5inch
#2Red Snapper 25.5inch
Wild Card
TOTAL INCHES= 114 inches
G2B Fishing Tournament Offshore Venice Jan 22nd
Went out in search of some big red grouper, snapper for the G2B Fishing Club Tournament, now just 2 days before I was offshore 75 miles when the weather man called for 2ft seas and it was 4-6ft with some 8ft rollers mixed in so I was very cautious before going out. Thankfully the weather man was right today and it really was 2ft or less, so we ran out to a “secert” area of good bottom in 123ft off Venice when we got there the bottom machine was lit up like a christmas tree! After a few hours we had probably caught over 50 Red Grouper kept our limit at 16, 8 mangrove snapper and countless monster red snapper(released). Bait of choice was 2 whole squid on a 12/0 Circle hook but the biggest grouper of the day was caught on a lure that I make myself its a teaser squid with 8oz of lead and a 4x strong 10/0 Hook, I included a picture so you can see it. On the way back in the seas were slick calm and it made the 43 mile trip back just amazing. Great day on the water!
Fillo Dough Snapper recipe
Here is a recipe that I developed at a country club when I was working as a chef back in Orlando (Feels like a lifetime ago). Its fairly simple and I included a lot of pictures to help you along.
INGREDENTS: 4 skinned and de-boned snapper fillets, fillo dough, 1 stick butter, 1 large tomato, 1 zucchini, 1 8oz block of feta cheese, 4 cloves of garlic, 1tsp chili powder, 1tsp paprika, 1tsp salt (kosher if possible), 1/2tsp fresh black pepper, and 2tbs olive oil.
This will yield about 4 servings
First things first, start off with some fresh snapper, self caught preferably but any snapper will do but today I am using Mangrove snapper.
Take the garlic cloves and mince then dice the tomato, zucchini and feta cheese
Once you have that done place all of it into a mixing bowl with the paprika, chili powder, salt, pepper and olive oil….. mix very well to combine all ingredents and set aside for later.
Take out your fillo dough
Open the box and take out one of the fillo dough rolls and make sure to keep it sealed until the last second before you use it. Melt the stick of butter in microwave, get snapper fillets, make sure they are dry of excess liquids by patting them down with a paper towels and get a brush for the melted butter.
Once you have everything ready you are going to open the fillo dough package (be careful it is very delicate stuff, its like working with damp paper sheets) and unroll the sheets on a flat surface. Next you are going to layer the five sheets one on top of another and in-between each sheet you are going to lightly brush on the melted butter. So now that you have your five sheets of buttered fillo dough stacked up you are going to take a fillet of snapper and place it in the center of the sheet then take a hand full of the mix you made earlier and place it right on top so it looks like this.
Then you are going to take one corner and gently fold it to the center and continue to the next corner that you just made and fold that one up and so on and so on until you have what looks like a little volcano. If the starting corner is too long and it covers the filling then just fold it underneath its self, if any of the sheets are dry when folding over just dab a bit of butter on it and keep folding. The finished product should look something like this.
Place into a pre-heated 350 degree oven for 35 minutes and it should come out golden brown and delicious!
Eat and enjoy, if everything comes out right this should be the end result………..
Offshore Sarasota Jan 6th
Went out today with the intentions to put my friends cousins from New York on some Goliath Grouper just to watch them struggle…… 
. So we started out the day at M5 to load up on spanish mackeral and with in a short amount of time we had about 15 in the cooler and off we went to our goliath spot. After an hour we had one pull off within seconds and no other takers……..darn! So we decided to change things up and look for some new spots in the area, after about 30 minutes of crusing around we came across what looked like a really nice ledge. So first drift over the spot and instant tripple hook up!!!!! Ended up being two gag grouper and one nice fat red grouper, so after we took some photos, released the gags and boxed the red I decided to anchor on this spot to see what else it had to offer. After about 2 hours we ended with countless red grouper and mangrove snapper! I was very suprised to see the snapper bitting the way they were because of the full moon coming up and the fact that we had no chum at all, they must have been hungry. We called it a day around 1pm, ended up keeping 3 red grouper and 16 snappers for the dinner table not too bad for a day when we wernt even going for food fish…lol.
Here are some pictures from today
Slick calm conditions all day, bait cut bonita, fishing depth 65ft
Offshore Sarasota
Headed out today with snapper and grouper in mind, as Aaron from orlando wanted to have a day on the water and some fresh fillets. Left the inlet around 7am to a proven snapper spot of mine. Well we ended up with 30 Mangrove, 7 trigger fish, 10 porgy, 6 lane snapper, 3 Aj’s and one lucky Scamp grouper that went home with me .After our limit of snapper was reached we picked up and headed over to a nice ledge that I found a few years ago that always produces to see what the red grouper were up to ……. well they were coming over the gunnel as fast as we could get our bait down. Ended up with 12 red grouper up to 15lbs and let go atleast 30 or more shorts. All in all a great day on the water, ended up with 65lbs of cleaned fillets, lots of gag grouper were caught and released today as well. Here are a few pictures from today.
Every thing but the grouper were caught on live shrimp, red grouper were caught on bonita strips and frozen sardines.
hope you enjoy
Captain Tim
Ft. Myers fishing trip
So my girlfriends parents moved to Ft. Myers about 3 months ago and her father has been begging me to take him out down there and see what we can catch, so I was free today and the plan was to just explore the area to see what was around. So the first 2 hrs on the water were spent looking for tripple tail……saw 2 boated 1 and it was undersized so he went back in the drink. Getting frustrated that we were not seeing more tails we decided to change things up so I pulled out the chart to look for some of the near shore reefs, found one that was in 35ft of water and it was loaded with Lane Snapper and good sized ones too we got 5 nice keepers from 10-14 inches threw back the rest along with some grunts and what seemed like endless ammounts of bonita. After a few hours on the reef we decided to see what was closer to shore so we ran a few miles north near Sanibel beach and caught 2 pompano and 1 doormat of a flounder just shy of 21 inches. At 3pm we called it a day and ran in for some beers!
Great day on the water, weather was amazing and flat calm seas. All was caught on live large shrimp
Sorry no pics as I left my phone in my truck (DAMN!)
Tight Lines,
Captain Tim