I know it's been a couple weeks since I wrote but I have been working 14-15 hours a day , running 2 trips every day and cleaning fish for hours. To say that fishing has been easy is putting it mildly. LOTS of big Red Snappers (had a 20# fish today). Plenty of Kings with a lot in the 25# to 40# range. A few groupers around, plenty of Amberines and even a few cobia coming through. I'll let the pictures speak for themselves- remember - all these pictures are from short trips- 4 hours max and some are from 2 and 3 hour afternoon trips- {%image_id=15930%} {%image_id=15929%} {%image_id=15928%} {%image_id=15927%} {%image_id=15926%} {%image_id=15925%} {%image_id=15924%} {%image_id=15923%} {%image_id=15922%} {%image_id=15921%} Lots of talk with the media about the oil-- I have seen tar balls floating offshore on 2 different days- They were in small areas and not scattered all all over. I have not seen anything the past 2 days. There has been NOTHING washed ashore at Grayton. I have heard stories of tarballs on the beach further east but I have not seen anything my self except white sand and clean water (june grassy tho) on the beach-- What I have heard is that some tarballs washed up and it was no big deal-- folks were still swimming and laying out on the beach- you just looked down when you crossed the high tide mark to be sure you didn't step on one. Things may change, I sure don't know, but so far it's all still good here--- While I'm sure there is a lot of oil out there somewhere, all the media hype I have seen has been way exaggerated so far----- Capt Larry Pentel