Grouper 4 , Hydro 0

Saltwater Offshore Reports
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Played hooky from work and went to the ledge with my good friend Garrett. After Passing a 43ft. yacht aground at the jetties we push on to the ledge with a glassy sea at 34 MPH. (Looks like he missed the Chanel in dynamite hole.)
Armed with a box cigar minnows, a box of squid, a box of bud and a box of lite, we set out to pull up some meat. Pulling up to the spot we could hear the action at 226 hole but we were dedicated.
First drop at 7:15 slam stuck in the rocks, but I could feel some head shakes. It must be a grouper? Fourth drop slam. Rocked and broke off again.
And yet again slam Garret is rocked. 4 rigs in 20 minutes. Now I’m getting pissed.
So I pop a cold one for breakfast slap on a stogie minnow and drop again.
This time I got one off the bottom about 10 cranks and slam, a freight train hit me from nowhere peeling against a locked down drag. The line sounded like a G string on a banjo.
15 minutes worth of tug of war and the line went slack. Reeled up a 14 inch porgie that looked like he had been scaled and fined. 50# test is obviously not worthy of that hole.
Mr. grouper did not want to play any more after that so caught our limit and headed on to hit some other spots.

Finished the day with:
6 Porgies
1 AJ
12 BSB
1 B-liner
1 wrasse
3 sharp nose
1 turtle
1 sun fish
1 school of blue runners

If your not fishin your not livin!

2

Had a spot like that a few miles south of the edisto banks in 170’ last oct. Everything on fifty was gettin ate and broke off. So i rigged up a 16/0 circle on 150 flouro and a 50vsw on a deep drop bent butt rod with 100 mono succeeded with 150 hollow core and dropped 2 pound mangled bliners. Then on proceeded to break 100 pound amberjack necks. One even had a rusty hook and six inches of mangled line in its mouth. They didnt want none on that rig and i dint want none on any other rig. Left it in the rod holder and made full use of the two speed and 50 lbs of drag. That was my new planer rods first time out; it passed the test. My boss did a good job building it.

24 proline twin 150 mercs

3

Sounds like a ball buster. Looking for a hog wench to get some revenge!

If your not fishin your not livin!

4

Get you a deep drop rod with a shortie bent butt rod and just leave it in the holder. The fish will be dissappointed and you’ll still be able to straighten your back the next day. You wont be dissappointed by a nice two speed reel either but if you can find a nice 9/0 senator that would break necks too.

24 proline twin 150 mercs

5

Sounds like a good day. Hope to get together with you soon!

Key West 21’6" BayReef
225 Honda
Tightlines and God Bless