Fortunately, the seas were flat and we explored until we came across a small snapper tree in 115’. At this spot, a few red snapper came aboard, the biggest of which weighed 11.1 lbs. Most of our red snapper were caught on live bait. However, we caught a few mangroves and lane snapper on frozen bait.

Too bad that the season for red grouper ended a week ago as we would have limited out on those. I think each of released at least a half dozen.
Our slow pitch jigs were not really effective. Maybe, the heat made the fish a little too lethargic to chase them.
If I had to do this trip over, I would’ve:
(1) Spent more time using pieces of frozen bait on smaller hooks to load up on lanes and mangroves instead of red snapper.
(2) Had a bait rod rigged and ready for the peanut mahi that came by. (We caught 2 and one was caught on a micro slow pitch jig.)
(3) Brought some bananas on the boat; it really couldn’t have hurt our luck.
It was still a great day on the water with a good crew. The newest fisherman got the big fish of the day on half of a frozen LY.
Here are a few photos from the trip.







