Strolled out to the ledge yesterday morning, careful to avoid the schools of charleston bluefins breaching all around. Stopped in 100’ and 6yo Scotty put the first meat in the box with a decent genuine. We loaded up on not so endangered red porgies, florida boy daymaker seabass, and triggers. Caught 3 nice genuines and handfull of shorts. No garoupas. Headed out to the ledge and PQ put on a show, feeding the sharks with a couple of scamps and then what appeared to be a yellow jack in the 30lb class. First yellow jack i have seen, turns out SC does not have a state record class for the species. Too bad we released the fish without even a photo shoot. The sharks were tough, snacking on groupers and nailing both our baits and jigs. Midgiemullet wrestled the first 250lb toothy fish to the surface, then I battled another one maybe a bit larger on the jigging rod. School boy then captured a 200lb class hammerhead. Finished the day with 2 snowies, 4 whole scamps, 4 half scamps, a kitty mitchell, my first silk snapper (another species without a SC record class), 3 genuines, and a cooler full of bass, porgies, and triggers.
FB sea bass…TASTEY!!! Give me some of that! Sounds like you guys had a stellar and fun day! Glad ya’ll made it out and back safely with no problems. Hope you get more “whole” groupas to tha boat next time!
Sorry to miss the day yesterday, was putting time in for ole’ Sal, one straw at a time. No footballs then huh? Greg, i have your tanks- thank you- thought I might have to get them on again if we were getting it hauled out, but no go on that one, which is good- call me and I’ll bring them by.
Saw you guys leaving Sat. morning. Did you drag any baits at the 226 by chance? Curious to see if anyone fished that eddy that came in to the 226 over the weekend. Looked like some nice water.
hoppy, the only big tymer we were missing was you. hopefully one of these days you will grace us with your presence. i’m holding my breath.
jtm, are you in tolers? we didn’t do any trolling saturday… those molas were tempting, but we let them be. the water temp still isn’t where we want it… any day now.
arbitrage, glad you are keeping the man in business. i’m still waiting on my cheesecake.
Cool trip. Sorry I missed that one. The silk snapper are pretty cool, but I would never keep one under 20" long around here, because I would be willing to put money down that most of the DNR agents wouldn’t know the difference between them and a red! We caught one last year about 18-19" in back into the water he went!
Nice work Daniel and crew! Looking forward to a great fishing season, let me know when you head out again. I’m counting on you to help Reel Options raise her first swordfish this year.
hoppy, the only big tymer we were missing was you. hopefully one of these days you will grace us with your presence. i’m holding my breath.
jtm, are you in tolers? we didn’t do any trolling saturday… those molas were tempting, but we let them be. the water temp still isn’t where we want it… any day now.
arbitrage, glad you are keeping the man in business. i’m still waiting on my cheesecake.
BRAINSTORM
Yeap. I am the navy Reg right by the fuel dock. I live out there as well and I get tortured watching boats head out early in the morning when I can’t fish which is 90% of the time
Your Albe is very sharp looking. I am a big fan of those boats.
I am working on a deal with an owner out of Florida, if it goes through I will need to bring the boat around. I will either keep her on the creek or I’ll be the Brainstorm’s neighbor.
Looking forward to sword fishing and deep dropping…
