Lanark Village Ramp
Tide: low incoming
Water Temp: low 80's
With favorable winds forecast we decided to try for some delicious red snapper. With the short season, we wanted to get some in the freezer while we can.
We headed about 13 miles off shore from Dog Island. We were remarking how few boats were out. Wouldn't you know it, the first hole we were going to had a boat on it. This happened again later in the day. I guess the numbers I have aren't really secret after all.
Nancy and I knew one number no one would have, because we found it last year while out in the K tower area. We went there on our second stop and the fish were waiting.
Hunter caught a bunch of illegal grouper, gag and red.
While I was waiting to help Hunter get one of his illegals in the boat, I heard Nancy grunt and say "this is a big one." Hunter looked over the side and saw the nice red glow of a snapper coming up. He dropped his stuff and netted this nice 22" 7.25 lb. snapper.
We had an OK trip, stopping here and there. Finding fish at one spot and not another, but we did catch a nice black bass to go home with the snapper.
We figured we actually fished about 3 and a half hours, so not a bad trip. All fish were caught on cut bait, as my bait catchers didn't come through again.
