Captain sam vick, his dad, bert and myself(jason roundtree) headed to R6 to catch some bait around 6:00. the seas were great after getting past the sea buoy. we got to r6 to find loads of bait but were too small to catch. we managed to catch a few on sabiki rigs. I got tired of watching us catch bait and seeing all of the fish on the finder so i dropped down to see what was up. it did not take long for a 2.5 pound vermillion to touch the ice. we decided to fish there for a while, we caught maybe 25 vermillion with some just over 3 pounds. The excitement got better when a mahi swam by the boat. I alerted sam and he grabbed his spinner and cast a live cigar minnow at the fish and he turned and bolted for the live bait and 10 minutes later we had a 24 pound bull on ice.
We also caught a yellowtail snapper a few minutes later here.
We moved on to the middle banks where we found a bunch of fish just off the bottom in 95 feet of water. We caught a strawberry grouper, plenty more vermillion in the 3 pound range and a red snapper
Total for the day
- limit and maybe some of vermillion
- strawberry grouper
- dolphin 24 pounds
- 2 pound yellowtail snapper
- 1 red snapper
- 3 amberjack over 20 pounds(we threw back)
- 5 gray snapper
- 1 trigger fish