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Got on the water around eight after dropping my daughter off at school, off a little after noon to pick her up.
With the late start bait was scattered and more difficult to get then I wanted. I managed about ten good sized cigs and headed out.
The days plan was to make a couple drops on some bottom in search of anything but a red snapper and then spend a few hours drifting live baits in hopes of mahi, tuna, or sail.
No hits until Im just a few hundred yards away from my spot and I pick up a nice king. I rebait and set the line back out and almost instantly hook up again with another nice king.
I get to my spot and first drop yeilds a yummy nineteen inch mangrove snapper. Great, dinner is taken care of first drop.
I dropped a few more times but got chumped and picked up another king on bottom. Not wanting to use all of my live baits on bottom I decided to drift them in hopes of a pelagic.
The wind was blowing pretty good from the NE which always makes for sloppy fishing conditions especially a couple of miles out. The kings loved it though and I pick yet another king as well as got clipped off a couple of times.
The wind died down, water laid down and bite shut down. I ended up pulling a live cig for over three miles with out another bite.
Over all not the day I was hoping for but the four kings were all nice in the upper thirty, lower forty inch range and the nice mangrove will make a good dinner.
With the late start bait was scattered and more difficult to get then I wanted. I managed about ten good sized cigs and headed out.
The days plan was to make a couple drops on some bottom in search of anything but a red snapper and then spend a few hours drifting live baits in hopes of mahi, tuna, or sail.
No hits until Im just a few hundred yards away from my spot and I pick up a nice king. I rebait and set the line back out and almost instantly hook up again with another nice king.
I get to my spot and first drop yeilds a yummy nineteen inch mangrove snapper. Great, dinner is taken care of first drop.
I dropped a few more times but got chumped and picked up another king on bottom. Not wanting to use all of my live baits on bottom I decided to drift them in hopes of a pelagic.
The wind was blowing pretty good from the NE which always makes for sloppy fishing conditions especially a couple of miles out. The kings loved it though and I pick yet another king as well as got clipped off a couple of times.
The wind died down, water laid down and bite shut down. I ended up pulling a live cig for over three miles with out another bite.
Over all not the day I was hoping for but the four kings were all nice in the upper thirty, lower forty inch range and the nice mangrove will make a good dinner.
