Well, let me just say first off how much I truly truly enjoy spending time on the water with this group of misfits. Each one of them would literally give you the shirt off their back and they are all fantastic fisherman too! Guys I had the best time in a very long time out there. Yesterday is what fishing is really all about. I laughed more yesterday than I have in a while. Thanks for putting this together guys and making it happen.
So, with light winds and small seas forecasted, we put the A-Team crew back together for another offshore slaying of fish. Me, Jerms, Flatscaster, Duckcommander, and Stretch made the journey to the ledge early in the morning looking for a little of that Carolina Gold. Lines in at 7:15 in 120’ where we caught them on Saturday and had a small dolphin adn a small king in the box before 7:30. Missed two or three more fish within the next 15 minutes shaking a little king off boatside…then not another fish in the boat after that on the troll. We tried everything. We went out to 250’ and back, tried zigg zagging the ledge for two hours and nothing. Maybe we were just trying to hard; I don’t know. But we didn’t let that spoil our fun.
At about 11 or so, we all decided after running over some great looking bottom, to stop and start bottomfishing. I hate to give up on trolling so quickly but it was really getting to be ridiculous. Two hours solid with no strikes. So we started bottom fishing near the SWB.
First drift, not much, some porgies and a small BSB. Second drift, a little better over the numbers this time, and Bam! We find the fish. Flats brings up a grouper and Duckcommander brings up a nice scamp himself plus a rockhind. This is the spot to fish we all agree. After four or five more drifts, we pull up several more grouper, some short, nothing too big, but good keepers. And usually, when you find the small guys, the big guys are around somewhere. We anchored up as best we could over that good spot and finished out the rest of the day there. Ended up
quote:Originally posted by buckwheat8282
I'll be the guy drinking Pabst on a 85 montauk with a clemson flag hangin from the stern light, going about 6 knots,. . .hopefully we'll have some ladies with us, but I think that might be wishfull thinking at this point.
Possibly this weekend…don’t you have some time off soon?
quote:Originally posted by buckwheat8282
I'll be the guy drinking Pabst on a 85 montauk with a clemson flag hangin from the stern light, going about 6 knots,. . .hopefully we'll have some ladies with us, but I think that might be wishfull thinking at this point.
nice job guys, thought about stretch wantin to dive under a weed patty last sun when we saw a 12ft+ hammerhead cruisin the weed line!! tie a rope to his ankle and call it live baiting! :)
Sounds like you guys had a blast.
I’ll have to check the pictures out later. (At work now)
We’ll have to get out there and do some fishing again one of these days.
I am still known to lay down a chum slick from time to time.
xHCFKx
I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in
a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle. – Winston Churchill
nice job guys, thought about stretch wantin to dive under a weed patty last sun when we saw a 12ft+ hammerhead cruisin the weed line!! tie a rope to his ankle and call it live baiting! :)
Russ B.
Russ, get me on a hammahed I want to shoot some underwater/dive video of a big hammer… not to mention shoots ome spring steel through some mahidos.
xHCFKx
I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in
a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle. – Winston Churchill
I am still known to lay down a chum slick from time to time.