We have been watching the weather all weekto try and get offshore for a little R&R. The weather man was right on with this forecast. The winds starting blowing in the morning from the NE at about five knots with a gentle one to two foot seas; no real swell to speak of. We headed out of the Pensacola Pass in search ofany kind of live bait.After a 30minute hunt we threw in the towel on that one. We were unable to find any bait under or around the bouys. The engine throttles were pushed up to maintain a 30 knot run to the SW. Temperatures at that point were 43 degrees and soon warmed up to 56 degrees, 10 minutes later. Our first stop was almost a total bomb. AJ's were all over the rocks and something big was eating some of the larger one's that were hooked up. We quickly left that area in hopes of finding some gags, mingo's and scamp's. We picked away at a few of the scamp and mingo's but did not have the first bite from a gag. After our fourth spot and very little fish in the cooler we decided to go and catch half our limit of snowy sgrouper and try some new ways to catch some longtail bass. We did not catch any longtails but the new rig did work well for snowys'. We were off to the NE to try again to find the mongo mingo that we were on two weeks ago.We picked away on the mingo's and were also able to finda few almacos and loads of red snappers. Witha fullbox of fish, it was time to head in andget the catch fillet up.The biggest snowy weighed in at 26 pounds and it was good to be offshore with friends and be able to catch a few fish. Gene, Tim, B-rad, Rob and Cliff
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