Syracuse.com - Syracuse boys cash in during Florida salt water fishing adventure

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They were on a family vacation in Boca Grande. Submitted photoBen and his gag grouper.Stephen P. Gross, of Syracuse, sent me photos recently of his sons, Ben, 13, and Alex, 17, and their catches while on a recent family vacation in Boca Grande, Florida.The father wrote: "Ben caught this 26 inch, 7 pound, gag grouper on Sunday, July 1st (the opening day of the season) while fishing in the Gulf of Mexico about 2 miles from the Boca Grande beach. It was caught in 30 feet of water on a pinfish. Catching the grouper was tricky. The fish will strike fast and run back into its whole so you must pull up quickly or the line will break on the rocks. After losing one that way, Ben reacted quickly when this one hit, though for a minute there I thought it was going to pull him right out of the boat.Submitted photoBen and his shark.Ben also caught the shark on Saturday the 30th in Charlotte Harbor on a sardine. On Friday, Alex caught this 27-inch snook and the biggest sea trout we had ever seen at 26 inches in Charlotte Harbor. Both were caught with pinfish. We were fishing with my wife's cousin, Jeff Schoeder of Tampa on his 24-foot fishing boat. Each fishing trip started by netting bait with a cast net thrown off of the boat. Submitted photoAlex and his sea trout.Submitted photoAlex and his snook.

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