Out of Gordon Pass 4\26\14

JSTickum

Saturday 4\26 we left the dock at 8am with great seas and a 10 knot wind , we checked for bait at the pod but the tide was not rite yet for the white baits . We did not waste anytime looking for the bait inshore knowing we would find bait offshore and we really wanted to get out to the tower before it became a zoo , which it did . The first spot took us out to Tower R , we came pulling up on it at 9 am with only one boat already there :dance , we set up a chum slick , put a couple of baits to drift back and the Yellow Tails and Rudders start coming to us . We were not even fishing for 15 mins and we look to the east to see other vessels approaching , no biggie until we noticed one had a dive flag , 3 vessels pull up and anchor , the dive boat pulls up to about 20' of the tower and 2 go in , awesome , well that spot was blown in 15mins , but at least the divers got a nice AJ off the tower to about 30lbs , the bite just shuts down . We pull the hook at 10am and head west to or next spot in 95 ' a nice 30 min ride out , we come pulling up to our spot to find someone is already on it , no problem one of the beautiful things about fishing hard bottom is their is plenty of it and I have lots of chum . The party started at 10:30 am , 2 blocks over the side and small chunks of cut hearing being tossed out when every we had the chance . We fished there till about 3:30 pm pulling fish in left and right , there were a lot of Mangs and Lanes to play with and of course Grouper ( Gags , Scamps , and Reds ) . We hit one other spot on the way back in but the weather was turning sloppy quick to 3' to 5' , so we said we have plenty of dinner for the Sunday surf and turf and were back at the dock by 5:30 .Here are a couple of pics from the day , sorry not too many of them , I was to busy unhookin and baitin.




If guys can go deep get out there , their biting
JSTick'um

nightfly

Tight work. Is that your new ride?

JSTickum

nightfly wrote: »

Is that your new ride?

Naa man , I am not there yet ,,,,,, it is a buddy of mine's boat, we were testing out his new Simrad set up , A+ Simrad :hail

Mine is still in the shop , I will be back underway in 3 weeks

dtobias

Nice catchin', Jim and Andrew. Hope you get your vessel back on the water soon. Give me a shout and we can get on the tarpon bite up this way. Bent rods, brother.

fish4fun

JSTickum wrote: »

...no biggie until we noticed one had a dive flag , 3 vessels pull up and anchor , the dive boat pulls up to about 20' of the tower and 2 go in , awesome , well that spot was blown in 15mins , but at least the divers got a nice AJ off the tower to about 30lbs , the bite just shuts down . We pull the hook at 10am and head west to or next spot in 95 ' a nice 30 min ride out , we come pulling up to our spot to find someone is already on it , no problem one of the beautiful things about fishing hard bottom is their is plenty of it and I have lots of chum ....
JSTick'um

Besides the great pics and nice work, I'd really like to compliment you for the demeanor you portray in the part of the post I quoted. A lot of guys would have ranted about the divers :machinegun and the guys on the same spot at 95' :machinegun as if they owned the tower and the hard bottom. But not you, you made the best of it. Well done man.

Turner River Terror

Something to remember.
The Divers that are Hard Core are fighting the Feds on Grouper and Snapper Restrictions too..
They fish different, But their Fishermen as well.

JSTickum

Turner River Terror wrote: »

Something to remember.
The Divers that are Hard Core are fighting the Feds on Grouper and Snapper Restrictions too..
They fish different, But their Fishermen as well.

I have nothing against divers until their under my vessel , they would be just as pissed if not more if I pulled up on their spot and started dropping lines down on them .





Thanks all , hope ya all are getting out this weekend , it is supposed to be beautiful weather and great tides
tight lines

Gamekilla

Nice fish man!!