Grocery Shopping off Ocean Reef

xenia

My friend's son wanted to do some fishing and hopefully take some back home before he leaves for Wisconsin tomorrow.  Had a late start and didn't get to the reef until 11:00.  First stop was in 42' to see if any mangroves had showed up yet, but it's still too early.  Fished another spot in 57' where we had a gazillion Needlessfish taking our YT baits, and when it wasn't those it was the filefish or chubs.  Went to my sure spot a little farther south and had no trash fish.  Perfect current and ballyhoo everywhere, and no sharks!  While the others flatlined for YT off the stern, I was the bottom googan and fished ballyhoo for a mutton or mangrove.  Got this nice mangrove:

and a mutton:

but also released 3 of these and lost another on the bottom.  Come May 1st I probably can't find one to save my life!

chronicbreak

Eating good in Wisconsin 

Plastered2850

Nice catch.

Lurchy

Nice!  Giant mangrove!

conchydong

Good job. We found a few Yelloweyes and Blackfin Snappers still hanging around up our way a little deeper than what you were fishing in yesterday morning. Other than that nothing special.

The Parker

Its funny i was always catch mive grouper when i cant keep them. Way to fool the sharks seems like there getting worst every year 

catchemup

similarly , shortly after  the mutton keeper size was changed from 16" to 18"....we caught and released 11 muttons between 16" - 17" caught on a one day trip. Go figure!