We had an overnight trip for the Middle Grounds planned for Fri-Sat.... that got canceled last minute when the forecast changed (wouldve been a long ride in in a 28CC)
Boat's ower asked if we wanted to bottom fish on sunday. Well..... it wasnt an overnighter 100 miles offshore in the gulf, but did get to bottom fish 50+ off of JAX yesterday.... bumpy ride out and we could only do 20 kts (luckily laid down throughout the day and ride in was nice)
My first drop (on a 50# dropper rig with little 2/0 hooks for trigger fish) pulled up a keeper cobia
Got slow from there with mostly junk fish... so we kept pushing out deeper to 150'....and made a late 4th qtr comeback
In the end 4 of us tallied: 1 cobia, 17 trigger fish (a few nice ones) and our 20 fish limit of beeliners (vermillion snapper) with alot of nice ones around 20".... and unfortunately 2 pretty large sharks that we thought may have been grouper or Amberjacks
Left my house before 5am.... got back home at 10pm draggin ass today
Edited: 06/17/2019
at 07:38 AM
by Plan B