Bottom fished Red Banks in 115 ft.hoping for a couple of grouper. That didn’t happen. Caught triggers ( released) and some other stuff, but we marked a ton of fish that just wouldn’t bite. We tried everything from live bait to butterflies. Saw one other boat working hard, and hope they caught fish.Would really be open to suggestions on what we might have done differently. We then moved to 85 ft. And must have caught 100+ sea bass in a couple of hours.
Bouy weather was off by 10 knots. Good, but long, day.
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Originally posted by RealfinBottom fished Red Banks in 115 ft.hoping for a couple of grouper. That didn’t happen. Caught triggers ( released) and some other stuff, but we marked a ton of fish that just wouldn’t bite. We tried everything from live bait to butterflies. Saw one other boat working hard, and hope they caught fish.Would really be open to suggestions on what we might have done differently. We then moved to 85 ft. And must have caught 100+ sea bass in a couple of hours.
Bouy weather was off by 10 knots. Good, but long, day.
Hard to tell without seeing a pick of the FFscreen. I will say there is a ton of small bait in that depth right now. If you were sitting on a “big show”, chances are it was all bait.
Anchored, drifting, temp, bottom temp?
In 100 feet you were sitting on a school of 3 billion sardines. Next time drop a couple of Sabiki rigs and then use the large sardines for bait should be plenty of Kings around them and even a few jumbo red snappers
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Thanks to both of you. That is the only thing we didn’t try.talked about it, but didn’t try it.
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