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Need some advice on fishing offshore reefs at night or at least someone to tell me what we did wrong?

Three of us headed out this past Friday night to Bryson reef to see if we could get on a mangrove bite. We ended up anchoring about an hour or so before sun set. Set out a chum bag, used squid, live pin fish and fresh shrimp. Had lights on the surface and even dropped a glow stick a few feet off the bottom. We ended up with one nice mangrove snapper for the night along with a bunch of grunts. Not nearly what we were hoping for. The tides were pretty weak and the moon /stars were almost nonexistent due to the cloud cover. The moon was supposed to rise around 2am which was about the time we left.

We used both live and dead squid if that matters.

Any advice on what to do different next time would be appreciated.

The full moon in June is when the mangrove spawn. This year, it was Jun 15. I think you were a week late on a crappy moon phase and post spawn fish.

OR...you are just bad fishermen.

Damm JT, that was a little harsh don't you think? Maybe inexperienced would have been a better adjective? How about uninitiated? Or possibly that you taught him everything he knows about fishin?
FF

Tom Keels wrote:The full moon in June is when the mangrove spawn. This year, it was Jun 15. I think you were a week late on a crappy moon phase and post spawn fish.

I agree with Tom on this one.

JT is close to getting a time out

Jumptrout51 wrote:OR...you are just bad fishermen.

I think someone's nanny kicked him out of the stable and now he is pouting!

Jumptrout51 wrote:OR...you are just bad fishermen.

On this, we must bow to JT's wisdom he does after all, have many years of experiance

lots of jewfish, sharks, and short aj's at bryson.

I wouldn't worry to much about Konrad, he has pretty thick skin. Solid angler as well.

lots of gags at bryson too