Decided last minute to pack it up Saturday and head south after a hard morning of cutting and splitting pecan wood for a future Boston Butt smoking and fundraiser. I packed the truck and headed south. Arrived in Lanark @ 4 and ran into Carrabelle to visit the River house rental we’ll be using for a trip in November. Stopped by to talk with Brad (family fisher) and see how things were the last two days of fishing for him. He wanted to captain me and my friend Todd Sunday and I told him he needed the day off and that we’d take the Celestial Crab instead.
Left C-Quarters after ice and fuel @ sunrise and ran out the river as she was poking through the mist!
First stop was to check a spot in 49 ft and saw some action on the screen so Brad fired down a piece of squid not 2 seconds and he’s hooked up to a beast. Not bad for a stop and look spot. Few drag runs later and we boat Brad’s largest red fish to date. 38in
Hit another favorite spot just a half a click away and picked up some nice sea bass to start the day/box and had a nice tussle with a short red grouper. Brad was also kind enough to supply us some VERY nice sand perch for the ride offshore.
Headed south to greater depths and had a couple boats on the snapper spot so, left it to them and went to a good red grouper area that would also provide snapper. Managed almost an east coast (20 in) limit of snapper with two just under. Also had a nice keeper red grouper after weeding threw many shorts.
We then headed to the Exxon template to play with AJ, since the seas were so nice we couldn’t resist. We couldn’t get anything going for awhile and didn’t have a snapper or grouper bite all afternoon moved around the tower area a little then were about to leave when I saw a bottom explosion on the Furuno! Stopped quick sent a jig down and on the retrieve managed a nice 27 inch fish and light spinning tackle, grabbed the bigger spinning outfit with a C&H alien jig. And went to work! Next drop was a 26 that took two jigs cranks to hit; third fish was up the column and was a beast and finally boated and measured was right at 30.1 so we keep it. Wiped the sweat and went after another this one the cudas said we had enough too and promptly chomped in half! Hate it for the poor AJ, but the spectacle was amazing right at the boat side! Called it a day and pointed the boat north running in on calm seas @ 36 MPH.
Thanks to Todd A. Todd M. Brad R. & the Celestial one for taking care all the kids needs and letting me go fish!!
BTW the Lowndes Bridgman (band) won their competition in Dothan Saturday! WTG Emily and Sterling!
Can't understand why the guys didin't want to play too, I only sweated a little. 