St. Marks Sunday

pennfish · Post by **pennfish** » August 15th, 2005, 8:40 pm

Well two friends and I went to 60ft and limited out on red grouper (3) not happy throwing back legal size fish

the reds were at every #we tried and only managed 1 gag at 26". The weather was awesome, the company was better , and the fillets were delicious

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Post by **tin can** » August 15th, 2005, 8:55 pm

I agree with ya Pennfish. It's hard to put those keepers back.

Glad ya got out there.

Post by **Frank Bradfield** » August 15th, 2005, 9:49 pm

Yeah but with the shortage of Red Grouper and all , the man says you can't be catching that many because there aren't any. You'd think they'd realize they are plenty of them in our area with all the live bottom. So when they do their studies on the other side of the gulf and don't find any being caught it shouldn't be such a shock

. Everything red is overprotected, why ? Good catch though , at least the ones you threw back pulled good.. f

Post by **birddog** » August 15th, 2005, 10:21 pm

Some days you just can't find those Gags. Glad you got out and caught a few.

pennfish · Post by **pennfish** » August 15th, 2005, 10:45 pm

It was definatly fun , what stunk was throwing back larger fish than the ones we already had on ice. Im gonna win the lotto wed nite and get me a pad over in cajun country

dstockwell · Post by **dstockwell** » August 16th, 2005, 6:41 am

Good you got a few penn.

Post by **dolphinatic** » August 19th, 2005, 4:50 pm

We went out the other day to 45 ft. and all we caught were red grouper. They hit everything from live pins to Ly's to cutbait. No gags were caught in 4 hours of fishing. Glad to know that there is a shortage of reds down there

.....makes us feel special when we catch all the few ones down there like that