I played hooky from work to take advantage of another beautiful day in the Gulf. We headed out early Tuesday morning with the same crew as last time; James, Kevin and myself. We had theGulf to ourselves and it was flat all day. We headed to the Yellow Gravel area and made one stop on the way for some bait. The bait was thick and it didn't take long to catch more bait then we could use for the trip. We continued on from there and when we arrived at the spot there was very little wind so we decided to drift our spot instead of anchor. On our first drift, I jigged up a Scamp and James caught a decent Almaco on a livey. We made another pass and this time I was using a fish finder rig with squid and James was using a 2 hook rig with squid. We both bowed up and I pulled up another Scamp and James pulls up a big Trigger and our 1st of 3 Creole fish for the day.
Kevin also had a good hit on a Ruby but the fish missed the hook. The action slowed down for a while so we ran to another spot without much luck. We eventually went back to the first spot and anchored up. The fishing was pretty slow the rest of the day until about an hour before dark the Mingo's got fired up. We put 24 of them on ice before calling it a day. Over all it was a pretty good trip but I was surprised that we didn't get any Grouper or AJ's with all the good bait we had.
Final tally: 24 Mingo's, 2 Triggers, 3 Scamp, 3 Creole fish, 1 Almaco and a handful of White Snapper.
Here is a pic of James holding his prize for the day.
