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The weather was awesome on Saturday. I was getting all down on reading everyones reports on Friday. Half of you seem to have taken off the day or half a day. So a buddy of mine called me up at the end of the day and brightened mine up. He lives down there at Mashes sand and said lets go Saturday. We put in 2 boats, mine and his at 11:00 am. Took off to the south shoal to obtain pin fish. Looked like a swimming pool out there. After getting about 4 or 5 dozen pinfish we took off to one of his holes sw. After an hour bottom fishing, no grouper but a couple of sea bass worth keeping(3). We headed to another in about 45Ft, he had all the numbers, much better fisher than I am, then so our most Landed a few shorts, so we decided to head to k-tower for a few more holes and Amberjack. We were about 8 miles north of k-tower started trolling stretches(30') on the way there. I was using two rods with a red/white and a gold one. Not sure what my buddy was using in his rig till later. Caught 2 keepers both at 23in on the red/white and 1 24 1/2 on the gold in my boat. Buddy was catching them too, all on stretches. (all black Grouper) Caught another keeper on a different color stretch(not sure the color), my buddy that was riding with me changed out. Get to k-tower, must have been 8 boats in a tight area. Get there and see why, My bottom machine was just sounding off, you could look everywhere over the boat and see mass amount of Amberjack. I would see 20 to 30 at a time. Used live pinfish at 30 ft, 60 ft on bottom, 20 ft and on top---nothing I could not believe it! everywhere, but none biting. My buddy on the other boat landed 2 short. A few boats said they were having success. Spent an hour and a half with no luck. You could see them every where, just not bitin then. Headed about 2 miles south of k-tower tried bottom fishing with pinfish, ly's--NOTHING. EVERYWHERE WE BOTTOM FISHED, NOTHING ALL DAY EXCEPT SEA BASS AND GRUNTS. So we decided to troll on the way back in since that was working earlier. In about 50 ft of water started trolling again, this time a green stretch30 with the red/white30. Caught 4 more black grouper on my green and none on the red/white on the way back in this time...hmmmm. Every single one a keeper right at 22 or 23 in. Just barely, but legal. All together, on my boat caught 8 black, my buddy caught 6 black grouper---total between both rigs--14 So calm and smooth all day well beyond k-tower...awesome day also out fished my buddy on the other boat and reminded him the rest of the evening.---will post pics when film developed---need a digital camera!

water temp was showing about 68 degrees at k-tower, lots of pollen!

What was the predominant color, red/white?

Chumming and jigging seemed to be the trick Saturday for me for the AJ's. Get yourself a diamond jig...the ones that look like a fish that are gold colored. Go to Advantage Marine in Medart and tell Dan you want one of those diamond jigs that are the shit with AJ's.

Rig it with about some 80-100lb mono leader. Get you some fish or squid to cut up for chum. Start chunking the chum in the water. Jig it offf the bottom working your way up. A medium-heavy action rod with 30 or 40lb test line oughta do the trick.

Gene.O----The green with black tiger stripes got the four of eight I got for the day. The thing was when we were trolling on the way in with it, I had the red/white on the other rod and not one hit, but four back to back on the green/blk. Thr red/white hit three on the way out though. My buddy who got six said the gold stretch was most productive for him, we were about 3/4 mile apart.------------F.F.---thanks for the tip, printed it and put it with my AJ folder. will try it.......Frustrating seeing so many beautiful fish and not being able to land one.