We booked a 3/4 day near shore trip.  The morning started slow.  We stopped at 3 places before we started catching.  Mangrove Trees allowed for 1 trout and 1 redfish.  However, we stopped at 3 or 4 more places for snook.  And we caught about a dozen of them.  The largest was 38”.  We released all of them.
I did have a black-tip reef shark in the net that wasn’t hooked, but was holding on to the bait.  once netted, it released the bait and swam off.

There were 3 of us including Captain Evans and we were working 5 rods.

My son is a biologist, and they chatted for quite some time on types of fish, studies of fish, what parts of the country have different kind of fish. 

All-in-all a great trip.