Fished out of MI. Let the dock at 5am to a 47 degree atmosphere and choppy ocean. Gorgeous day. Plenty of triggers, big vermillion, porgies, and grouper. Grouper would only hit vertical jigs. Live bait wasn’t touched. Squid ran the show for everything else.
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Nice catch!
Man, I’m jealous. Good catch.
It was a beautiful day out yesterday. Glad you guys could get out to experience it.
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nice bubba, hit me up if u ever come to charleston again!
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Nice catch! the ocean was a little more choppy then forcasted…SUPRISE! what is the fish under the b-liners with the spots on it’s stomach? all that I managed to catch was some big b-liners a gray trigger, and some med. seabass. had a bunch of AJ’s and sharks stealing my fish before I could get them in. any idea what I can use besides my catch for the AJ’s? tried diamond jig but no luck. Again nice catch…Catch um up…Mike
The spotted fish is a red hind (aka strawberry grouper). For AJ’s, a live bait on a circle hook works great, but they’ll often hit cut bait as well. Just put something big on a hook and send it down. They’re not really picky.
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Thanks, I’ll give it a shot next time out.
That looks like a yellow mouth grouper and not a scamp. Same limits I believe.
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I thought it was a yellowmouth as well and had originally posted that but the couple of commercial guys I showed it to thought it was more on the scamp side. They’re covered under the same limits. I couldn’t get a live bait to the bottom Sunday. The trigger fish would dismantle 14-18in vermillion in less than minute after toucing bottom. That’s the main reason I switched over to vertical jigging. Had a full grown b-liner on the bottom with an 11/0 circle attached to a 50w tiagra in 110’ of water get picked up by something that proceeded to dump 200yds of line in about a minute or so before parting the 50lb leader. Stayed right on the bottom and headed straight away from us. We had a sunfish swim by about 15yds off the bow and an hour later had a 10-15lb bull cruise on by. Very interesting day on the water with plenty of life. I took a buddy from Lake City out on the ocean for his first time and he proceeded to ask everyone on the boat 72,000 questions about anything and everything. He personally asked me ten different times what the bliner hanging on his line was called. I finally stopped talking to him. The first grouper that came over the side he wanted to know if it was a saltwater largemouth bass. At one point we turned around to find him having a full on conversation/b*tch out with a pair of remoras trying to eat his bank sinker. It might have been the funniest thing I’ve ever seen on my boat. When he got back to the dock he picked up the phone and proceeded to call his family back home and tell them about all of the Brazilian Snapper, Red Corgies, and largemouth grouper he had caught. I have no idea where he got that from. Always great to get a new face out there in the ocean. The crew also consisted of a buddy of mine and his wife (newly weds as of Aug 28th). Was a little concerned about the wifey on board seeing as how she had never been offshore. She outfished everyone with a sabiki-rig, cleaned the boat when we got back, then walked over and insisted we teach her how to clean fish. T
Also, a fun little fact: The hinds were full of worms.
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Touche,
Nice cooler full.
We’ve had similar reel dumpings - usually ending with a knot joint failure at full drag. One time we got the rig back and the 80# mono felt like someone ran 180 grit paper along it for 6 feet. Had an 8/0 circle hook with a small opening. Best we figured was a real well fed shark took the b-liner and ran all of 200 yards down deep. Once it slowed and opened it’s mouth, game over. We have been able to bring some alongside over 100#. Slightly more interesting than an AJ but still just a time consumer.
Catching Brazilian Snappers huh, great sport there.
Haha, interesting. Leader was chaffed the exact some way. I’m in up at USC school of med this year and have had zero time to rig and instead of using a three-way swivel for my grouper rig like I usually do, I just made a quick triple-surgeons loop and snelled the long end to an offset-eye circle. The leader broke at that knot four or five feet in front of the circle and was completely roughed up. I would rather long-distance release a 200# tiger than have to deal with him boat-side…
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My only reserve about that being a yellowmouth grouper is that the world record yellowmouth is around the size that you are holding in the pic! did you weigh it by chance?
Haha, I know. 22.8lbs. I said something to a buddy of mine about it being a YM as I was cleaning it and then proceeded to look up the record Monday during class… After discussing it with the crew we settled on around 18lbs. Maybe a little bigger but I don’t want to hate myself for the rest of the month…
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Upon further reveiw im going with scamp… yellowmouth doesnt have the whips on the tail and the yellow around the mouth is darker. Go to the fish id section on this site and see if you agree.
Scamp. Notice the long filament coming off the anal fin in the last pic.
Agreed.
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There weren’t any toe trucks in your driveway when you got back to your house were there?
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Originally posted by ReelTalk06There weren’t any toe trucks in your driveway when you got back to your house were there?
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