Another great day on the ocean with my dad, Black Bart, and Gary from columbia. Set out to catch a few grouper and of course do our part in filling the red snapper quota.
We started out with a few grouper first. Black Bart had the grouper mojo and can claim that he caught his personal grouper limit with 2 scamps and 1 gag grouper. He did this before anyone else put the first grouper in the boat.
Then he proceeded to put one of these in the boat:
We moved around to a few different spots and found some BSB’s, porgies, and vermilion as well.
We did a quick dive only to find about 7’ of visibility. Nothing to shoot at and came up with empty stringers.
Then we moved around a bit more. Needing to build up some bottom time, we resumed to fishing. It wasn’t long before dad’s rod was doubled over and then this fish came aboard:
The fish weighed 24 lbs 15oz on a digital scale.
He took a quick break and resumed to fishing, the next drop down he was hooked into a beast. After a hard fought tug of war with what we thought was a russian submarine, we throw this one on the deck:
I could have sworn this fish was bigger, but weighed in at 27 lbs 8oz on the digital scale back on land.
Meanwhile, Gary and I are scrambling to get our dive gear back on and then Black Bart starts screaming about something pulling him out of the boat and then he musters up this beauty:
It was the 3rd largest red of the day. We did not get a weight on it, but it was very close to the 25lb fish we had caught.
Then, we made the emergency SAFMC style call to shut down all fi
