Had an old friend come in town Friday night to do some fishing on Saturday. Had been planning this for some time and when I started to watch the weather early in the week I knew it was going to be a good weekend. Left Sullivan’s around 330 into the pitch black with no moon. Three of us one that had never been and one lady angler that has only been a few time. Nice ride out with a couple bumps early closer to shore. Dropped lines in 285 ft. Missed the first two fish and then a tangle in the long lines. I’m starting to think this is going to be a long day. Then the weeds came, scattered and everywhere! Pushed out to around 325 and found some fishable water shagging grass the whole way. By noon we had 10 in the box and missed probably 6 or 8 others. Either couldn’t feed them off the teaser or pulled hooks, two terminal tackle failures(those drive me crazy!!) Bite pretty much quit for us at noon. Put the lures out and headed out deeper looking for a bill, never saw anything, not much life out to 750. Pulled lines and headed back in at 40mph. I love those kind of days! Stopped in 60 ft made 2 drops. 1 endangered Red Snapper and the other usual suspects.
Woke up and made a late start to look for a Cobia on sunday. Started running the cans and realized me and 20 other boats were doing the same thing. Decided to head out deeper. 60 reef was packed! Didn’t see much there. Bounced a couple miles away and dropped anchor. Got invaded by somebody in a 24 ft blue hulled yellowfin. I just don’t like to fish that close to somebody. After 10 mins of them drifting passed me the last drift was probably within 10 ft of me. I had to say something. No idea why they thought that was the only place in the ocean to fish. Anyways, after they left ended up raising a 10ft + tiger shark. I was pumped I knew there was gonna be a Cobia on him… and there was! Unfortunately couldn’t get him to eat. The tiger did though. Pretty cool watching him eat a menhaden balloon rig and all. It was like a scen