Man what a day!!!! Lanark 10-20-05
Posted: October 20th, 2005, 11:22 pm
I've been owing an offshore trip to a few friends for a while now, and today seemed like a good day to take advantage of the nice weather. Since the boat is up for sale now (downsizing) I thought I better get them out while our schedules permitted it.
We got to Lanark about 10:00 on a LOW tide. We stocked up on Ly's and squid and headed on out to 40 ft. that produced some nice grouper a few months ago. About 2 miles before we got to the spot, I decided to drop a stretch 30 out the back to see if there we any takers. About .2 from the spot, a nice spanish decided to hit.
We got anchored up on the spot but marked no fish and got no bites. After 30 minutes, we decided to move on to spot #2.
We anchored up on spot #2 and only managed a few bites with only 1 nice rock bass. Again, after 30 minutes of a slow bite, we decided to move on.
The seas were a bit rough (compared to the 1-2 ft. seas forecasted
) but we decided to run out to 75 ft. and try a few deeper spots. We got anchored up and immediately the bite was on! We boated 2 nice red snapper and a few triggers. The snapper all but quit biting, and the grouper started hitting the LY's. We started pulling them in one after another and at one point had 5 keepers flopping around the boat.....no one wanted to take the time to put them in the cooler with a bite like that going on. We stayed in the same spot for the next 2.5 hours where we ended up with a nice limit of grouper and snapper.
We caught most of the grouper in 70 ft. and LY's were the bait of the day. Towards the end of the day, they picked up on the squid when we ran out of LY's. We ended up with a 3 man limit on grouper 22" - 35"(all gags), 4 red snapper, 1 spanish mack, 5 triggerfish and a huge shark.
We got to Lanark about 10:00 on a LOW tide. We stocked up on Ly's and squid and headed on out to 40 ft. that produced some nice grouper a few months ago. About 2 miles before we got to the spot, I decided to drop a stretch 30 out the back to see if there we any takers. About .2 from the spot, a nice spanish decided to hit.
We got anchored up on the spot but marked no fish and got no bites. After 30 minutes, we decided to move on to spot #2.
We anchored up on spot #2 and only managed a few bites with only 1 nice rock bass. Again, after 30 minutes of a slow bite, we decided to move on.
The seas were a bit rough (compared to the 1-2 ft. seas forecasted
) but we decided to run out to 75 ft. and try a few deeper spots. We got anchored up and immediately the bite was on! We boated 2 nice red snapper and a few triggers. The snapper all but quit biting, and the grouper started hitting the LY's. We started pulling them in one after another and at one point had 5 keepers flopping around the boat.....no one wanted to take the time to put them in the cooler with a bite like that going on. We stayed in the same spot for the next 2.5 hours where we ended up with a nice limit of grouper and snapper.We caught most of the grouper in 70 ft. and LY's were the bait of the day. Towards the end of the day, they picked up on the squid when we ran out of LY's. We ended up with a 3 man limit on grouper 22" - 35"(all gags), 4 red snapper, 1 spanish mack, 5 triggerfish and a huge shark.
