Got out Saturday and the ocean was beautiful. Headed out for some grouper. Got bait and headed for 70+ft. Found plenty of fish. Every stop out to over 90ft had fish. Problem was they were all BSB and sharks. Did manage one keeper Trigger but let him live to fight another day. Caught some of the biggest BSB I ever caught. Don’t know if its worth the trip at $80+ for fuel to release BSB all day to maybe get a grouper if you can get past those over fished BSB?
A wise man once said “Do as I say not as I do” Good advice when I tell you that.
If your main goal is grouper, then maybe it’s not worth it. I’m strictly inshore, but I wouldn’t fish a place that consistently only turned up pinfish, unless I just really needed to get out on the water just for the sake of a nice day on the water. Which is often enough and a good enough reason :).
Personally I’d save the gas and stay near the jetties and similar near shore structure and go after bull reds, the occasional black drum, and heck, if you’re catching sharks offshore, you can do that off a pier
Sure, football is interesting, but I’ll take a non-life threatening day of any sort of weather, out fishing, over any football game. Catching fish or not lol.
I cant complain about catching fish. It’s to bad I can’t get past the BSB. Not sure if it’s because of the limits and season set on BSB by the Fed’s. I would be nice to be able to put fish in the box.
A wise man once said “Do as I say not as I do” Good advice when I tell you that.
First off. I’m glad you posted a report. It’s nice to hear about fish being caught in any form.
We were finding earlier this year that the BSB’s stopped around 120’. We were catching grouper, b-liners, big trig’s, and all but no BSB’s out that deep. I have no idea how the seasons affect them, water temp, etc. but maybe go out a little deeper next time and see if you can get out of them.
