Had my eye on a break 60 miles off, beautiful ballyhoo and all the big guns on board. The 2-4’ seas were @ 4-5 seconds and I couldn’t get a good bead on them, only making 25-27 MPH somewhat uncomfortably. Fearing mutany, I pulled back and we decided to fish the Snapper Banks for the usual bottom dwellers. The fish were there. Drifted first and had good marks, bsb’s, b-liners, red porgy and some others. Had high hopes but the bite never really turned on. The bsb’s started to go in the box as we realized the fish we were marking weren’t chewing. Tried the anchor but the lack of wind and scattered marks made that difficult and when it was lit we would catch or hook one fish then the bite would stop. The 3 good fish in the boat were all ARS. John put a personal best in the boat (15#) and I put in 2 (7-10#). Paul added a nice grunt and some triggers. Used most of the b-liners for bait and the snapper bait of the day was chunked smaller grunt. 2 of the 3 came on that bait. Good day I guess, but my mind was on that break and some wahoo. Rolled in at 40-45MPH and enjoyed a beautiful sunset with good friends on slick waters in January in the LowCountry. Ya know, I guess it was a pretty good day after all.
Totals:
BSB-100+
B-liners-10
ARS-3
Trigger-1
Grunts-5
Red Porgy-10
Some other crap and only about 5 sharks.
