I’m gonna take a good guess and say that nobody went fishing yesterday. I left the dock at 6 and only saw 1 charter boat heading towards Beaufort, after that the seas were wide open. Wind was terrible and of course had the water kicked up to about 6 foot seas. We rode out to the 70’ spot we fished on Saturday and hit our limit on BSBs. Caught porgys, triggers, huge ringtails, and grunts. First fish pulled in the boat was my first flounder on rod and reel. It was the first time my dad has been out in this boat and he didn’t really enjoy the ride out but managed to catch the biggest BSBs and brought a red snapper on the boat. Hit the 60 reef on the way back in and didn’t do much, AJ broke me off in the rocks so we decided to pack it up. Rough day on the water but we had fun.
Also about 5 miles past the 60 reef, we passed a tug pulling a barge full of army vehicles so they may possibly be dumping these somewhere???
Those 3 fish across the bottom of your picture will make you forget about ringtails
How’d you do cleaning the triggers?
Most people hate to clean 'em but if you got a really sharp and pointy fillet knife, they aren’t bad at all.
Triggers aren’t bad at all. I just start from the tail and clean the meat up to where the head bone starts and then fillet the meat off the skin. Gotta catch alot of them though to really accumulate some meat but I probably have 12 fillets so far in the freezer.
The Friday before last when we went out we were catching triggers like seabass, 2 at a time and they were all nice size ones too. We were killing them but ran out of cooler space, ended up keeping 20 nice ones but probably could’ve caught at least 20 more as the bite was still hot. Right now I have a good variety of fish in the freezer ( mahi, trigger, grouper, b-liners, seabass) but need to add some cobia, wahoo, lobster and hogfish to close the deal.
