Port St. Joe. 5/4/14
Posted: May 5th, 2014, 10:00 am
I have been reading this forum for a few months and always look forward to reading the posts as a Monday morning ritual. Since I see none today and I went fishing yesterday I figured what the heck...
started off at 8 AM- Went out to 150(+-) ft of water and immediately started catching fish but a great number of snappers were a snapping! We were catching 4 or 5 snappers to every red grouper we caught but if you could get your bait to the bottom it was a sure thing! Most of the time the bait was gone before it got to the bottom with a single/ slight bump so I decided to cut up some bait fish since it will stay on the hook after multiple bits/ fish. It paid off from having to check bait consistently and I could focus on the big red hitting my line. About 11:30 or 12 somebody hit the kill switch and the bit was non existent. So we picked up and went out to 200 FT (man that a long way up with a 20Lb snapper just to turn him loose) Ahh my Back! The bite turned back on about 2 and we got into the scamp pretty good, boating 4 or so
The day was rocking on so we decided after not finding much grouper in 200 Ft to head back into our first holes that had originally shut off earlier in the day. We did pick up a few beeliners and 2 more reds in between the 20 more snapper we had to turn back loose. Total 12 red grouper, 4 scamp, ? beeliners. .....and plenty of empty beer cans.
All in all great day on the water and now plenty of grouper to serve on mothers day!
started off at 8 AM- Went out to 150(+-) ft of water and immediately started catching fish but a great number of snappers were a snapping! We were catching 4 or 5 snappers to every red grouper we caught but if you could get your bait to the bottom it was a sure thing! Most of the time the bait was gone before it got to the bottom with a single/ slight bump so I decided to cut up some bait fish since it will stay on the hook after multiple bits/ fish. It paid off from having to check bait consistently and I could focus on the big red hitting my line. About 11:30 or 12 somebody hit the kill switch and the bit was non existent. So we picked up and went out to 200 FT (man that a long way up with a 20Lb snapper just to turn him loose) Ahh my Back! The bite turned back on about 2 and we got into the scamp pretty good, boating 4 or so
The day was rocking on so we decided after not finding much grouper in 200 Ft to head back into our first holes that had originally shut off earlier in the day. We did pick up a few beeliners and 2 more reds in between the 20 more snapper we had to turn back loose. Total 12 red grouper, 4 scamp, ? beeliners. .....and plenty of empty beer cans.All in all great day on the water and now plenty of grouper to serve on mothers day!
