Water temp: high 70's
Tide: outgoing the incoming. Very high tides
Air: mid 80's
The seas have layed down for the week and we decided to take advantage of the extended red snapper season. Florida has opened up the snapper season for 8 weekends because the oil spill kept the snapper from being "overharvested" due to the banning of the commercial fleet fishing in the Gulf.
We headed out to a snapper waypoint I had plugged in to the GPS from a tip from Fred. It is about 6 miles SW of K tower.
The water was beautiful.
We reached our waypoint in and hour and 20 minutes.
The first drop I hooked into a fish that couldn't be budged off the bottom and he got off.
We then fished around the hole, and marked a lot of fish, but kept getting our bait stolen. We decided to expand the area and trolled a mann's stretch 25. We hooked up on a nice King Mac. We didn't mark any nice spots to fish, so we headed back to our original waypoint.
Needing some luck, I fired up a cigar. Works every time, and the first drop brought up an very nice "overfished" 5.5 lb. red snapper.
We had our bait stolen a few more times and decided to head back to the hill. As we headed back I ran across some unusual activity on the fish finder in 60 feet of water. We turned around and dropped some sardines into the water and soon it was on. It was a feeding frenzy of red, black and gag grouper. Also, another Red Snapper.
It was an was an Advil moment as we were doubled up with nice fish about every drop. I caught the biggest black I have landed to date. Also, caught a keeper red grouper and a keeper gag.Nancy laid down her tackle as the exhaustion of catching fish and Dramamine took over.
We got back to the hill in an hour and 10 minutes as the seas were laid down.
Just a great day to be on the water.
