I had invited a co-worker (Paul) to do some inshore fishing on Saturday, but Thursday I got a call from Nuge to do some Grouper hunting and since I don't get offshore too much I decided we'd take him up on it. Paul and I met up with Nuge at the SeaHag in Steinhatchee at 8 and since Nuge had prepped the boat the day before we were set to go. Picked up a few pin fish (not enough) in shore and proceeded out to 40+ water. The ride out was a bit bumpy, but the water was supposed to lay down in the afternoon, so no problem. We trolled around for an hour and picked up a keeper red grouper. I hadn't caught a keeper red before (I did say I didn't get offshore too much right) and Nuge had taken it personally. Before the day was done I'd caught 7, 6 keepers, the larger 3 which were returned to the sea, so mission accomplished Nuge
We drifted some, then proceed out deeper to another of Nuge's numbers. Our first drift was red-hot so we repeated it a couple more times. Our last drift we also found some good bottom and proceeded to load the box. The ride in was still a bit bumpy, so much for 1-2's. The final tally was 11 keepers, 3 reds, 8 gags, and numerous grunts. All in all a great day. Thanks much Nuge!
I hope to add pics later.
