Put in at the Lighthouse ~6:45am and headed east. The bite early was on Chugbug and Zara SPook with a little Catch 2000 mixed in. Couldn't buy a bite on live shrimp or jig before ~10am. However the best action was before 10 am unless you count the fields of shorts we encoutered later. We moved over just west of peter's rock and caught a small cobia on a CT w/ tipped jig. Soon after that a strange thing happened. Fishing in 9ft of water with a Catch 2000 on a trout sized rod and reel, I saw a bait pod moving on the water and casted just past so as to be able to pull it through without spooking them. As soon as the two converged, my rod bends and I catch a 7 lb Grouper...in 9ft of water...in May...on a catch 2000. My proof is the Pic's below. We continued fishing until ~3:30 \, working our way back West on a series of drifts. After about 11am we changed tactics pretty often and caught fish on all types of tackle - bottom jigging, CT's w/ jigs or live shrimp, Catch 2000's, Chugbug, Thunderspin, Gold Spoons..etc. The final Tally was:
Bluefish - 2 ( topwater and CT))
Spanish - 2 ( all on bottom jig)
Keeper Trout - 6 ( gold spoon, CT with fishbites/jig or shrimp, Chugbug, Catch 2000)
Other Trout - ~60
Ladyfish - ~15 (pesky but fun)
Pinfish - 1 ( on a jig lol)
Remora - 1 ( on chugbug)
Cobia - 1 ( on CT with tipped Jig)
Grouper - 1 ( catch 2000)
