The day started after leaving work at noon and heading towards panacea. Got to the ramp, loaded up ice and three generations of sopchoppians. Stopped for bait on the shoals and they were tightlipped but got about 40 livies consisting of pinfish, pigfish, and a couple of squirrelfish. Shot out to 55' in a 1-2' chop and started trolling. Tried one of those blue firetigers vs. char. firetiger. The char. doubled over after about 1/4 mile. Jason locked the lever drag and laid into it. Too bad it was powerpro and the mono to pp knot was past the rod tip. Bye bye chart. firetiger and pp line. Trolled a little longer with no takers. anchored up close to where we had the hit and put a few in the boat. One was ~15#s. Trolled to the next number and the blue tigers drag peeled off. Larry said he seen the fish jump. About 4' long. I'm thinking Kingfish. we cleared the lines and after a valant fight a 4' barracuda surfaced, he mush have eaten that kingfish. We anchor up again and put a few more in the box. We've got about 10 in the box around 4pm and a storm starts developing towards shore. Storm keeps developing moving east along the coast. Starts getting too close to comfort so we head W into 2-4's. After a few miles there is a break in the mddle so we troll some more. We pick up a short and keeper grouper and while stopped Larry says look at the depth finder. It looks like a bait pod is hovering about 6' off the bottom. This is usually snapper or bait. I keep the boat idling and in position and they drop their lines. Both immediately hook up. We anchored and boated 9 more keepers and turned back about 10 fat 24-26" reds, but couldn't get that last gag. We stayed till the last possible moment so we did not have to run in the dark and made it back to the boat ramp a little after 9. The youngun bumped his nose in the rough seas, but nothing broken.
Lost a keeper cobia. Cobia 2 me 0.
sorry no pics
Mashes Sands 6/16/05
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