St. Marks 5/7/05
Posted: May 8th, 2005, 10:12 pm
Day started not so good. Got the boat in the water at 7:00 to find out that my battery box switch had been left on accidentally....so no juice to turn the big merc. Struggled with it trying to get it jumped off...finally I conceded and bought a brand new spark box from the marina...ouch. So an hour later we are off...myself and two other chums of mine. Headed out to a couple of holes that were closer in but only found grunts and rock bass. Decided to go out a little further and found the same thing. Well after the late start decided to go out to a hole about 35 miles out. Set the drift line and hooked up on two nice red grouper 7-9 lbs. on octopus. Then the bite stopped...decided to go further still about another 7 miles...nothing...nada...zilch. Tried three other spots with the same result. Well I thought that we would go back to where we caught the two reds earlier...but when we got there we only found a dead tide. Tried a few new tricks though and found some live bait. Wow what a difference that made. They turned on and within the next 45-50 minutes had boated 6 additional grouper (four gags and two reds) to go along with the previous two. All in all 8 grouper (4 gags, 4 reds), 2 rock bass. Largest being a 28 inch gag to 10 lbs. Nice result to an awkward start.
Needless to say fresh grouper fingers with all the trimmings were sure tasty this evening.
measuring tape? Boards are 2x6 - maybe that will help.
One of my chums with some of the prize catch.
Needless to say fresh grouper fingers with all the trimmings were sure tasty this evening.
measuring tape? Boards are 2x6 - maybe that will help. One of my chums with some of the prize catch.