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We left the dock about 6:15 figuring we better get an early start because it would probably end early. I had 3 anglers and a friend helping out as deckhand as we loaded up with some live bait on DI Reef. Headed straight South trying to get some grouper in the box as early as possible. The fish were there but the bite was a little timid. The water is still a little dirty, but the seas were good, 1-3ft. After a bunch of shorts, both red and gag grouper, I decided to move out a little further. The second hole in 65ft produced some pretty consistent action, with a few keepers and still alot of shorts. After one of the guys hooking a big nurse shark, I thought we would try the Yamaha for some AJ's. The reef was crowded and had one storm drop a couple of water spouts to the S.E. of us. One of the guys hooked up an AJ, his first, but it was a couple inches short. As we were getting ready to look for some more grouper, we saw a fellow pull up in a big Carolina Skiff with about 8 people on board and couldn't help but wonder what this guy was gonna do if the storm that had started to shoot some lightning started to head our way
We made one more stop as we watched the storm grow and the grouper started to bite. We burned up the rest of our live bait and picked up and headed in. Back to the marina at 3:30. We ended the day with 8 keepers, 5 gags, 3 red grouper, with the biggest going about 10 lbs. Not a great day but a good day for late July in 50-65 ft and water about 84 degrees. Everybody had fun and Cuda"B" ran great and we didn't even get wet
Go early and fish hard!
Capt. Jay
fish finder wrote: we saw a fellow pull up in a big Carolina Skiff with about 8 people on board and couldn't help but wonder what this guy was gonna do if the storm that had started to shoot some lightning started to head our way :
Way to go, sounds like a fine time.
