24SEP16 - Port Eve Report

conquistador

Headed out of the port at 0600 to a beautiful sunrise.



Went straight to the mooring balls and started chumming. Huge schools of ballyhoo everywhere, took about 5 minutes to get them behind the boat and then used my newly purchased hoop net, worked like a charm. Caught about two dozen in 15 min and and stayed lively all day. Went South and fished in 70' to 100' in the hopes of catching mutton snapper or grouper. Attempted this for about 4 hours in different spots, missed some nice fish but it was kind of slow. Inshore current was severely lacking. Switched gears at noon and started spearfishing, hogfish everywhere. Got 6 keepers before we had to go. Ocean was flat and a good day overall.

gsweaver

nice. beautiful picture!

Flight Risk

Outstanding pic! Good report too on the bait - thanks. WTG picking up the slack with the speargun.

NickNut

Well done with the hogs, and that pic is brilliant.

paulrxp

Agree still a nice photo,, and at least you were on to some great baits. Perhaps it's all the rain and runoff and that we're still sort of in transition. It was the same last week when I went to West Palm. Loads of bait, but the bite and predators were on and off. Still the best Sept as far as bait goes I've seen in the past few years. Just going to get better.