I have been apart of numerous other posts but this is my first. Headed out Sunday to a good area in 75ft to start. Eric brings a 21 in gag into boat on a sabici rig on first drop with the spinning reel. Brainstorm was anchored up a few hundred yards from the ledge we were going to fish and we could hear a lady screaming “grouper, grouper” on the bow. Got anchored and caught some c bass and triggers. I went down to dive hoping for good things after skinnej’s report from last week. Vis was 10-15 ft and my gags ran quickly. Managed 1 ARS, 1 sheep, 1 scamp, all about 8lbs. Saw a 70-80 AJ , biggest one I have ever seen. Ended the dive early b/c of poor vis. We moved on out to 100ft and Timmy caught a little tunny on the way with a jig. 100 ft had better bait on the sabicis. We had also taken a cooler of blue crabs with us but they produced nothing. Caught our limit of ARS on live bait and then 2 gags btn 16-20lbs right before dark on cut little tunny. Watched a smoker mystery fish take 100yds of braid off the penn baja special with the drag maxed before the 9/0 circle hook straightened. Big shark was my thought? Caught a few triggers, porgies and sea bass mixed in as well. Rolled in a 30mph with an amazing starlight sky and plenty o beers. Awesome day and congrats to all those with fun reports from Sunday. Also tried my homemade menhaden chum that I spent hours making over the summer. Tied off 10 ft above bottom all day and didn’t really seem to help.
I also want to say sweet to the kooks in the 23 seacraft that ran several miles to come btn me and Brainstorm and then circle my boat within 60 ft while I blew the horn and said a few words…big ocean…etc. They realized the didn’t know what was going on and rolled out back to the Chas 60 with squid rigs 15 min later.
Could a Charlestonfishing pro tell me what I need to do to have full pictures without all the text script? thanks
No pro, but just copy and paste only the IMG code…
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I’ve never used blue crabs bottom fishing, although I wanted to last weekend but couldn’t catch any. What normally bites them, and do you break off their hard top shell before dropping them down?
You’re asking the wrong person in me…I would talking you’ll find your bulls in 60’…you can find them as deep as 100’ but fishing here is a lot different than in the gulf…
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my boat won’t even run without fried chicken and cold beer
the blue crabs was an experiment. I found a baby blue crab in the mouth of one of the red snappers i cleaned. I found a 4lb lobster completely whole (maybe 1 day old) in the stomach of 15lb red grouper I shot before in 80ft. Hogfish and cubera snapper as well are known for eating big crustaceons. We were hoping a big live blue crab would be gold for a big gag or a hog cruising around but the smaller fish just ate the insides out of it. We used live cigars, live pinfish, live vermillions, frozen menhadden, squid, blue crabs , frozen cigars and fresh cut little tunny and that tunny by far was the bait of the day for the good fish. Guess you never know.
last summer i found a small crab in the stomach of a dolphin. I’m definitely gonna have to try an drop a few on the bottom next time to see whatsup. i’ve heard about the lobsters in stomachs before. it seems to me nothing beats a lively pinfish or vermilion but i guess this time of year the fish aren’t extremely picky
