Mexico Beach Kings

[leesburgga]

Fished Saturday and Sunday at Mexico Beach for kings along the buoy line. On Saturday, had some equipment problems and came in early with 2 kings. By the time we were ready to go back out, the wind had kicked up and we couldn't get out. Sunday was a much better day. Got on the water by about 7 and by 10 am had our 4-man limit. Most of the fish were about 30 inches -- sorry, no pictures. Our kids (9 and 11) caught most of the fish and had a blast. We used dusters (any color seemed to work) with frozen cigar minnows. We tried some sabikis around the buoys with no luck, but it turned out we didn't need them. Bait pods were everywhere along the buoy line. We had planned to head over the car bodies, but never made it.

Great time and Mexico Beach was empty.

[GAJOEY]

good deal . Nice to see some home town folks with good reports

[Outdoorsnole]

sounds like a fun weekend. How far out is the bouy line? I'm guessing it just runs right off the beach out of an inlet or pass? I have a smaller boat and might head over that way on when the wind cooperates.

[leesburgga]

Where we were catching fish on the buoy line is probably about 6-7 miles from the Mexico Beach canal. The buoy line serves as the channel marker going into Port St. Joe bay. You could also launch in the bay, run out to the mouth of the bay and then turn up the buoy line. We have a 19' boat and had no problems in the morning. Of course we couldn't go out in the afternoons with the winds this past weekend, but I am not sure anyone would have wanted to head out in that. If you plan to head down there, pm me and I will tell you some more specifics. Good luck.