Headed out about 7:30 AM with the remnants of a Full moon still shinning overhead, a cooler full of frozen threadfins, squid and shrimp. The bait-well was holding 3 dozen pins to be used for hunting the biguns.

Winds were modest but the Gulf had some 2’ rollers that slowed the trip out to the first stop at about +50’. Current was running pretty well, and water clarity was much improved at 82 degrees. The bite was surprisingly slower than expected based on the positive conditions. Grunts were decent size but coming up grudgingly, Hogfish were taking shrimp but a little short as were some Gags and Red Grouper.

A couple fun catches – Robbie hooked into a 3’ Shark that gave him quite a tussle on light tackle, and I hooked into a hefty Bonita that took some drag and provided some laughs

We had another 4 or 5 stops working out to +60’ with much the same results – bite was slow but steady. Several Hogfish with 2 being legal, Frank B. got the biggest at 16”. Gag bite was steady out deeper taking both shrimp and pins- Mike S. had biggest at 23”s (picture was forgotten-my bad) and a couple estimated bigger that didn’t make it to the surface.

Some dark clouds loomed between us and home port, so we took our cooler of Grunts and a couple Hogs and headed back in…

A ‘good time was had by all’ and there are tasty Hog fillets a cookin’ and fish tacos on future menus.

Thank-you  Capt Mike