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Nice haul. What is your goto hook. I have been trying Daiichi 84Z 7/0, VMC Tournament 8/0, and Owner reef and rig 9/0. All about the same footprint. The Daichi's are good but the tip crinkles and does not punch through. The shark in the pic is a bull with the rounded head. Sandbars are pretty ...

Nice haul. What is your goto hook. I have been trying Daiichi 84Z 7/0, VMC Tournament 8/0, and Owner reef and rig 9/0. All about the same footprint. The Daichi's are good but the tip crinkles and does not punch through. The shark in the pic is a bull with the rounded head. Sandbars are pretty ...

Thanks for the suggestions.

Can anyone recommend a tire shop in the Carrabelle, Panacea, or Crawfordville area to replace the tires on my boat trailer?

boomhauer wrote: July 2nd, 2025, 3:34 pm Looks like a bull shark ….,
The bulls and sandbars are everywhere.if there are fish shows, they aren’t far behind.
Great screen shots,,,, lots of life there.
Good to see

Thanks for commenting on the post, Boomhauer. I went through a whole pack of hooks because of the sharks.

The boat was getting pounded by the chop as we headed south of East Pass. To smooth out the ride, we zig-zagged through the waves. This approach took us far off the course from one of our usual bait spots. We had to find a new one. Eventually, the sonar showed a huge cloud of bait below the boat in ...

Friday at 4:20 am, my fishing buddy texts me, “Radar doesn’t look promising. What do you think? . . . The future radar blows up.” I was thinking it was time to go fishing. We had pushed back fishing trips for several weeks due to weather.

At 5:00 am, there was just a tiny thunderstorm 20 miles ...

Great report. I would love to see pictures from the trip, especially pictures of the big alligator munching on the smaller one.

I now feel ashamed and embarrassed for using a popping cork.

Hit-n-Miss wrote: May 31st, 2025, 10:19 am Wow awesome report! Love the pictures. Yall killed em.

Thanks for enjoying the report

hairface wrote: May 29th, 2025, 5:33 pm Nice catch like the pictures looking to buy me a camera which one are you using

Hairface, I am using a GoProHhero 10 set to take 5.3 K video at 30 frames per second. I pull still shots from the videos.

Jigs will get you for sure, funny how it's always a red grouper gaggle that doubles up on the jig. Makes me wish I had went on the trip I was invited on the 24th but having to put in a new drain field and a new driveway probably would have been a bit much when I'm going in a week :-D


Good luck ...

Are there any shark experts out there? Can anyone tell me what kind of sharks these are in the photos?

Yep, real life experience and real data trumps “scientific” estimates every time. I am hopeful that the regulators start caring enough to prioritize getting better data for establishing gag grouper regulations.

Carrabelle, May 25, 2025. We launched at the Carrabelle River around 7 am which was early enough to get one of the few remaining parking spots at the ramp. We headed south and fished for cigar minnows to supplement our frozen bait. Then we headed beyond S Tower and a few feet deeper than 100’ to a ...