2-10-12 report

Trophyhusband · 02-10-2012, 08:45 PM

Today I learned that a knife jig will catch grouper and to my surprise, trigger fish. The knives weren't too effective at catching AJ's today though. I think I hooked into 3, but two broke off and another pulled the hook. It was cloudy so I'm blaming the lack of sunshine. Since my father in law was occasionally pulling up rubies, squirrelfish, and porgies, I set out a pole with live bait too. Fortunately I didn't hook up any sharks, but I pulled several of my baits up that only had a head left. I had a surprising number of really hard take downs that didn't hook up but killed or maimed my bait. We only boated 3 AJ's all day, two of them being keepers. My father in law also caught a crap load of triggers. We released them all, but I wish we had taken a couple pictures. A few were around 18 inches and one was 20 inches. I'm not sure if those qualify as big triggers, but they are biggest I've seen so far. A lot of bobos were around too so I threw one of my light knife jigs with a light rod out and with a quick retrieve hooked into one. We hit several spots from 20 to 25 miles out. The action may have been a little slow, but it was so nice out there that I didn't care. There was also a really prominent rip line. There were lots of weeds, some bubbles, and a distinct difference in the surface from one side to the other. It went for miles. The water was really warm too. I thought about trolling for dolphin, but decided to just keep going to AJ's. I would think that something would be found on that line, but I'm not sure what or how to fish it so I just stuck with what I knew. It might have been different if we already had our limit of AJ's. Sorry about the lack of pics. We got a cobia boat side and it jumped up and slapped the camera into the water before it broke off

Snatch it · 02-10-2012, 08:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Trophyhusband

Today I learned that a knife jig will catch grouper and to my surprise, trigger fish. The knives weren't too effective at catching AJ's today though. I think I hooked into 3, but two broke off and another pulled the hook. It was cloudy so I'm blaming the lack of sunshine. Since my father in law was occasionally pulling up rubies, squirrelfish, and porgies, I set out a pole with live bait too. Fortunately I didn't hook up any sharks, but I pulled several of my baits up that only had a head left. I had a surprising number of really hard take downs that didn't hook up but killed or maimed my bait. We only boated 3 AJ's all day, two of them being keepers. My father in law also caught a crap load of triggers. We released them all, but I wish we had taken a couple pictures. A few were around 18 inches and one was 20 inches. I'm not sure if those qualify as big triggers, but they are biggest I've seen so far. A lot of bobos were around too so I threw one of my light knife jigs with a light rod out and with a quick retrieve hooked into one. We hit several spots from 20 to 25 miles out. The action may have been a little slow, but it was so nice out there that I didn't care. There was also a really prominent rip line. There were lots of weeds, some bubbles, and a distinct difference in the surface from one side to the other. It went for miles. The water was really warm too. I thought about trolling for dolphin, but decided to just keep going to AJ's. I would think that something would be found on that line, but I'm not sure what or how to fish it so I just stuck with what I knew. It might have been different if we already had our limit of AJ's. Sorry about the lack of pics. We got a cobia boat side and it jumped up and slapped the camera into the water before it broke off

HAHAHAHA The last part was priceless!!!!

oxbeast1210 · 02-10-2012, 08:59 PM

Lol

Man I can't wait to learn to fish out there . I lack some skills

Trophyhusband · 02-10-2012, 09:03 PM

Me too. I want to know how to fish a nice rip line like that. Lots of neat stuff in those rip lines later in the year.

oxbeast1210 · 02-10-2012, 09:23 PM

U got way more skills then me I was talking about u going an catching some fish I wanted to go bad this weekend

Captain Mickey O'Reilly · 02-10-2012, 10:22 PM

Great sounding trip, and those triggers were very nice! A nice rip like that would be nice to mess with, especially dolphin!

Trophyhusband · 02-11-2012, 09:56 AM

I want so bad to find some dolphin. I caught one in the fall only a few miles out but at the time I didn't know to keep it in the water to keep the school around. What are the chances they would have been in that line yesterday? Do they come closer at a certain time of the year or will they just follow the warm water? My xducer doesn't give me water temp, but that water was really warm. I keep forgetting to grab my probe thermometer from the kitchen so I can check water temp. Is water clarity also a factor? The water looked very clear, but it was cloudy so I couldn't tell if it was really blue.

MrFish · 02-11-2012, 10:03 AM

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The water looked very clear, but it was cloudy so I couldn't tell if it was really blue.

You'll know Blue water when you see it. You won't be wondering if it is green or blue.

MrFish · 02-11-2012, 10:05 AM

Here's one that was posted a little while back.

Trophyhusband · 02-11-2012, 10:15 AM

There was certainly no green to it, but cloud layer really created a ton of glare making it. What's weird is that I spent four of my six years in the Navy on a ship that spent more time at sea than in port. I spent a ton of time looking at the ocean, but not looking at it with an offshore fisherman's eye's. Growing up in Washington and doing most my fishing within sight of land, I've always paid close attention to the surface and the waves. I've only gone blue water fishing out there once.

02-10-2012, 08:45 PM	#1
Trophyhusband Senior Member Grouper Join Date: Nov 2011 Posts: 652	2-10-12 report Today I learned that a knife jig will catch grouper and to my surprise, trigger fish. The knives weren't too effective at catching AJ's today though. I think I hooked into 3, but two broke off and another pulled the hook. It was cloudy so I'm blaming the lack of sunshine. Since my father in law was occasionally pulling up rubies, squirrelfish, and porgies, I set out a pole with live bait too. Fortunately I didn't hook up any sharks, but I pulled several of my baits up that only had a head left. I had a surprising number of really hard take downs that didn't hook up but killed or maimed my bait. We only boated 3 AJ's all day, two of them being keepers. My father in law also caught a crap load of triggers. We released them all, but I wish we had taken a couple pictures. A few were around 18 inches and one was 20 inches. I'm not sure if those qualify as big triggers, but they are biggest I've seen so far. A lot of bobos were around too so I threw one of my light knife jigs with a light rod out and with a quick retrieve hooked into one. We hit several spots from 20 to 25 miles out. The action may have been a little slow, but it was so nice out there that I didn't care. There was also a really prominent rip line. There were lots of weeds, some bubbles, and a distinct difference in the surface from one side to the other. It went for miles. The water was really warm too. I thought about trolling for dolphin, but decided to just keep going to AJ's. I would think that something would be found on that line, but I'm not sure what or how to fish it so I just stuck with what I knew. It might have been different if we already had our limit of AJ's. Sorry about the lack of pics. We got a cobia boat side and it jumped up and slapped the camera into the water before it broke off

02-10-2012, 10:22 PM	#6
Captain Mickey O'Reilly Senior Member Snapper Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Navarre, FL Posts: 407	Great sounding trip, and those triggers were very nice! A nice rip like that would be nice to mess with, especially dolphin! __________________ http://www.angrybirdfishingcharters.com/ Captain Mickey O'Reilly Angry Bird Fishing Charters LLC 850-723-1274 Captainmickeyo@yahoo.com

02-11-2012, 10:05 AM	#9
MrFish Senior Member Sailfish Join Date: Aug 2009 Location: Too Far from the Coast Posts: 2,027	Here's one that was posted a little while back. Attached Images __________________ ><((((º> Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another. Ernest Hemingway

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02-10-2012, 08:59 PM	#3
oxbeast1210 Senior Member White Marlin Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: milton Posts: 3,543	Lol Man I can't wait to learn to fish out there . I lack some skills

02-10-2012, 09:03 PM	#4
Trophyhusband Senior Member Grouper Join Date: Nov 2011 Posts: 652	Me too. I want to know how to fish a nice rip line like that. Lots of neat stuff in those rip lines later in the year.

02-10-2012, 09:23 PM	#5
oxbeast1210 Senior Member White Marlin Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: milton Posts: 3,543	U got way more skills then me I was talking about u going an catching some fish I wanted to go bad this weekend

02-11-2012, 09:56 AM	#7
Trophyhusband Senior Member Grouper Join Date: Nov 2011 Posts: 652	I want so bad to find some dolphin. I caught one in the fall only a few miles out but at the time I didn't know to keep it in the water to keep the school around. What are the chances they would have been in that line yesterday? Do they come closer at a certain time of the year or will they just follow the warm water? My xducer doesn't give me water temp, but that water was really warm. I keep forgetting to grab my probe thermometer from the kitchen so I can check water temp. Is water clarity also a factor? The water looked very clear, but it was cloudy so I couldn't tell if it was really blue.

02-11-2012, 10:15 AM	#10
Trophyhusband Senior Member Grouper Join Date: Nov 2011 Posts: 652	There was certainly no green to it, but cloud layer really created a ton of glare making it. What's weird is that I spent four of my six years in the Navy on a ship that spent more time at sea than in port. I spent a ton of time looking at the ocean, but not looking at it with an offshore fisherman's eye's. Growing up in Washington and doing most my fishing within sight of land, I've always paid close attention to the surface and the waves. I've only gone blue water fishing out there once.

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