shreve66

LOOKING FOR A LITTLE HELP. I have been in the area for 2.5 years. I have a 19 foot Bayliner, for sell by the way. I have fished at 3 barges, tex,and the hole about 3 miles from the Tex that sits about 100 ft deep. I have been having decent luck with Mangrove, Lane, and very very small amount of Red Snapper. I am going to be leaving the area in Nov. I have orders to Pax River, MD and will be fishing in the Chesapeake for 3 years. Anyways, I have never ventured out farther than 9 miles. Can anyone on here, please help me find a decent hole other than the above mentioned not farther than 20 miles out from NAS Pensacola. I know that is asking a lot, and probably wont get too many replies, but I just want to go out there at least 1 time before I transfer. Can anyone please help me. I am willing to post my phone number for someone to call me. please help

JoshH

Red Snapper are all over everything right now. I would stick to Paradise Hole, use live bait and your first 2 drops will be legal reds. You will also find black snapper moving in. Also, never forget to put a freeline out. Use a few feet of 80 mono and a 7/0 J hook, no lead. Put a live anything on it. A king, snapper, bonita, shark, dolphin, or something will hit it.

shreve66

Is paradise hole, the hole approx 10 miles south to southeast of the pass and approx 3 to 4 miles from the Tex? and thanks for the reply.

P-cola_Native

Greens hole is a little farther and usually produces good early in the season. All my numbers are on the boat at Day Break, so I can't really help with coordinates.

JoshH

Yep. Its about 6 miles from land, if I remember right.

shreve66

Ok, I am going to stay away from the Tex for the next couple of outings. I have spent a 40 hour week over there fishing, and only caught 3 red snapper, 2 were too small. I did catch several mangrove, lane, porgies, spadefish, kings, 1 crevalle and some sharks, but I want something bigger and more of them. The kings are hit and miss. My next stop is the hole then. I have had good luck there in the past, nothing too big, but decent. and I also am going to try some coordinates that were pm'd to me. Thx again.

Heller High Water

A great public bottom area that always produces, just make sure you stay for a while is the Russian Freighter. Its 9 miles SSE should be able to find cordinates on here, if not PM me and I'll give you numbers. I miss the Chesapeake Bay fishing,spring time is time for monster strippers (not the women the fish) HAHA.

lobsterman

http://www.mbtdivers.com/Dive%20Site...te_Numbers.htm

You should be able to find some gooduns on some of these.

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When you are fishing the close in stuff you have to remember that any fish of any size has seen a lot of tackle in his life. Talk to any of the divers and they will tell you that they see some quality fish on the close structure. The reason a bigger fish is still alive is because he has learned to avoid tackle. When on those spots I use long flurocarbon leaders (as long as 4 feet) and keep it at about20 - 25 lb test. Sure, floro is more expensive than mono, but it is a small cost of a trip into the Gulf. I will admit we do get broken off a lot. But isn't it better to hook up on a dozen fish, break off 10 and put a couple of good fish in the boat rather thandraw a blank? I don't know what you are using for leader material now, but if you are using mono I guarantee you that if you use flurocarbon standing next to someone using mono just one time you will be sold. I also use slightly smaller circle hooks than some people (4/0 and 5/0) and buy a quality hookmade with smaller diameter wire.You can catch a pretty large fish on a quality 4/0 circle hook.

shreve66

Thanks for the tips, I do use the flurocarbon, but not enough I guess. I was using about 18 inches to 2 feet, but I am going to try 4 feet next time I go fishing. Thanks again.