Out Indian Pass 05/05 - 07/05
Posted: May 8th, 2004, 10:09 am
Took advantage of high pressure over the gulf and searched the 100ft plus waters for snapper. On Wednesday my wife went along for the ride and three red snapper, a couple of lane snapper and one four foot sharp entered the icebox, along with several bluefish which would leave my bait jigs alone. A short gag and a short AJ were returned to the deep.
On Thursday I took my father-in-law out to the same spot on nearly flat seas and limited out on red snappers, with lane and mangroves rounding out our snapper limit. Three short AJ's, two short red grouper, and several jumbo porgies. Friday was a repeat of Thursday, with two snapper shy of our limit. I had two snapper stolen off my line by porpoises. One of those seafaring mammals grabbed a nice snapper and ran at full hilt from the boat, totally ripped the gears on a Penn 4/0 reel before the line broke.
The red snapper were tearing into short chunks of cigar minnow, the AJ's and Lane snapper were hitting live shrimp. Nothing seemed to like squid, except grunts. 60 lbs mono with 30lb flurocarbon leaders and 4/0 hooks, but the key seemed to be 3 oz weights.
On Thursday I took my father-in-law out to the same spot on nearly flat seas and limited out on red snappers, with lane and mangroves rounding out our snapper limit. Three short AJ's, two short red grouper, and several jumbo porgies. Friday was a repeat of Thursday, with two snapper shy of our limit. I had two snapper stolen off my line by porpoises. One of those seafaring mammals grabbed a nice snapper and ran at full hilt from the boat, totally ripped the gears on a Penn 4/0 reel before the line broke.
The red snapper were tearing into short chunks of cigar minnow, the AJ's and Lane snapper were hitting live shrimp. Nothing seemed to like squid, except grunts. 60 lbs mono with 30lb flurocarbon leaders and 4/0 hooks, but the key seemed to be 3 oz weights.