Oh, I know; I've fished saltwater since I was old enough to cock the bail on my granddad's spinning reel. Every other year or so, a bunch of us would put together a fishing charter, but going after billfish is very expensive to do that way. Better to visit the rigs and load up on Amberjack and Cobia. Between the rigs, we'd usually toll for Pompano. Not high-end gamefish, but plenty of fun ('specially those big Cobia).
It'll be a few years before I get to do that again; all of the charter boats that I used to book were taken out by Katrina - either washed a mile inland or just plain gone without a trace.
Ironically, I've heard that the fishing has been very good in the Gulf (dammnit).
For about 20 years we owned boats and regularly fished 100 miles off shore of Galveston and Freeport. It was great fun but hard hard work and we are too old to do it now. The fish that I mentioned that knocked me down and left a mark was a Ling. My husband reminded me that the fish wasn't on anyones line, he was just swimming by and my husband reached out with the gaff and gaffed him. Talk about bringing a green fish into the boat WOW! That is why he flipped off the gaff and knocked me for a loop.