Headed to another location in 50' only to find someone anchored down. Since the seas were starting to mellow we decided to see if we could add new GPS coordinates to our list and turned West. About 30mins into our troll we came over promising looking bottom (48'-52') and I hit MOB just in case. As the Stretches came over the location the port rod went off. Three more passes resulted in three keepers and one short so we decided to anchor since the junior crew memebers wanted to see if they could pull some fish off the bottom.
My 11 year old proved to have the touch and landed seven or eight BSB on the same piece of squid. One last drop on that piece of squid produced his personal best grouper at 30". With six nice grouper in the box and a few BSB, we decied to point the boat North. Catching details...
Water temp - 60 degrees
Seas - 2-4
Wind - E/SE 5-15
Depth - 35' and 48' produced
Troll speed - 3.5-4.0 knots
Stretch colors - dark purple was by far the best producer followed by blue/chrome. Green firetiger, red firetiger, and gold did not produce.
We did go back out on 12/29 to our new spot now labeled "Dbl D 1" (no it's not what you are thinking, my sons names both begin with D and they came up with the name) to scour the area for more new spots and added another pair of fillets to the freezer. A few pics of the trip follow.
Catching a few zzz's...
Hooked up...
Learning to drive...
The catch...
