7.11.21 OFFSHORE

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Name of Captain; Rick Thompson
Where were you fishing? OFFSHORE
Is this a tournament entry Fishing Report; Yes
The date you went fishing; 07-11-2021
Your Name; Jack Hexter
Your Fishing Report: If this is a tournament report do not state the fish’s length in this box. State the length and species in the box below Rick Thompson and his wife Barbara invited me to go look for ARS..  We left Skeleton Key Marina at 6:30 and pulled up on on the flat next to Hudson channel.  Chummed bait for 15 minutes, threw the net a couple of times and we were off on a 60 mile trek to 118′
First spot we were not marking a lot so we looked around, found a good show and Rick deployed the Rhodan.  Whiie he was doing this, I dropped a slow pitch jig and caught an almaco jack.  Good Start.  We used a variety of baits, Threadfins, Squid, Frozen shrimp, plus the whitebait and pins that I netted and we caught a plethora of fish.   Besides the almaco, we had vermilion snapper, lane snapper, mangroves snapper, I even caught a scamp grouper (surprise) and a second surprise, we had a couple of dolphin swimming around the boat and rick caught both of them.  We also caught the elusive ARS.
We motored to a spot about 10 miles inshore where we tried for red grouper (Rick had caught them here a couple weeks ago), but no one was home so we pulled the plug at 1:30 for the 2 hour run back to the marina  with a lot of fish to clean.
If this report includes a tournament entry please state the species and length of the fish caught in this box. 20″ ARS