June 14 / Grouper Galore

Left the dock at 6:00am to skull crush some grouper. Took 2 hours to get a couple hundred cigar minnows which doesn’t happen much. The blue runners were so thick you couldn’t keep a rig on. Busted through through 20 or so sabikis and ran to some bottom numbers we got. Dropped for 30 minutes without a grouper and then I had one smoke mine. 34" scamp comes up and it was on son. Next fish was of course a 40+lb cobia that we watched swim away. Wish it coulda seen the box. After that we had either side of the boat catching grouper steady. Caught 10 good ones from that hole and then found another spot while we were drifting. Brought out Mr.Electric and caught three 27" scamps in a row. Said lets try something new and put a big blue runner down there. Rod bent over and I put the speed on him. Mr.Electric had a 250lb lemon shark next to the boat in a minute 30. That thing is awesome! The bite turned off for about an hour and picked back up around 2:00. Caught 3 more scamps and decided to count what we had in the box. Two of us agreed we had 17 grouper so of course we had to top off a 6 man limit. Caught one more and called it a day. Ended up miscounting and finished with 17, didn’t matter too much though haha. Ran out at 53 - Ran in at 50. Back at dock at 4:00. Another great day for us on the grouper.
17 Scamps ~ smallest 22" biggest 34" Majority 26"
1 big Cobia, 3 Vermillion, silver snapper, and a slinger

36 Yellowfin ~ POLE DANCER
39 contender ~ MAMA BECKY
I love taking girls fishing. Gives me an excuse to kill more grouper and it’s a good view.

36 Yellowfin ~ POLE DANCER
39 contender ~ MAMA BECKY
I love taking girls fishing. Gives me an excuse to kill more grouper and it’s a good view.

Big’ol pile of deliciousness!!! Good stuff!

No matter how much it hurts, how dark it gets, or how far you fall…you are never out of the fight.

Nice day at the hole. Good eats there! How much fuel did yall burn?

That’s a lot of samitchs:smiley:

160 gallons, enough to catch em :smiley:

36 Yellowfin ~ POLE DANCER
39 contender ~ MAMA BECKY
I love taking girls fishing. Gives me an excuse to kill more grouper and it’s a good view.

Man those fish are the hardest or easiest to catch. Great job…I’m hunting them next week I hope.

Good fishing! We couldn’t keep the monster b-liners off the cigars last weekend to fight to the groupers.

We usually catch 15+ vermillion by accident and some triggers but not sure why they didn’t bite much couple days ago.

36 Yellowfin ~ POLE DANCER
39 contender ~ MAMA BECKY
I love taking girls fishing. Gives me an excuse to kill more grouper and it’s a good view.

we fished same day and couldn’t get a grouper due to monster vermillions

what electric reel are you using?

Shimano Beast Master 9000, life saver once you get in AJ town. 40 lb AJ can’t pull any drag.

36 Yellowfin ~ POLE DANCER
39 contender ~ MAMA BECKY
I love taking girls fishing. Gives me an excuse to kill more grouper and it’s a good view.

Nice work gentlemen

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PROUD YANKEE

Oyster Baron

NMFS = No More Fishing Season

“Back home we got a taxidermy man. He gonna have a heart attack when he see what I brung him”

Great job! Craig got a nice grouper down in venice. Grouper Samich!

@sellsfish thanks, looked like y’all hurt em to!

36 Yellowfin ~ POLE DANCER
39 contender ~ MAMA BECKY
If your gonna be a bear, be a Grizzly.