David and I headed out to some grouper numbers he had that were good two weeks ago.
Of course the switch has been flipped and the temp this week has skyrocketed to the mid 90's.
Two weeks ago the water temperature was in the low seventies, as we hit the water yesterday morning it was 82 degrees.
We plugged the numbers in and after 3 hours of fishing we had nary a grouper in the box. Only two sharks grabbed our baits.
So, David kept wanting to catch an kingfish. So, I said let's go to 24 marker.
About two miles south of 24 we started seeing bait. The first pod had two nice kings milling around.
David rigged a pinfish with a stinger hook rig and soon was saying, "I'm getting spooled!", and the boat was placed in gear to help him gather some line.
Soon a happy angler was lifting a 20 lb. king in the boat.
We found a few other pods of bait and fished them, but to no avail and decided to call it a day.
David texted me later in the evening and said his grill was fired up.
