 I know where James lives!
Took some guys out Saturday and had a blast. We had every intention of making it to the rigs. At about 40 miles outs, slightly sloppy 4-5 footers and a deathly ill client(that had never been offshore) changed their minds about the 80 mile run.
I'm glad they decided to stay closer because I would've had to make call and there is no way I was taking this guy any further away from medical help. Once we moved in closer the seas were calmer and his ailment settled to the normal motion sickness.
We stopped at a gas platform to bait up and we could see hardtail all in the legs of the platform but 20 -24in. AJ's were going "ape nuts" after anything that touched the water. We stayed there and caught baby AJ's on bait tackle 12lb test for a couple of hours my clients were havin a ball. We moved on with a few decent baits. Fired down the first big bait 10 cranks up slammed and rocked up, OK next bait 20 cranks up SLAMMED by a freight train that screems to the bottom rocked up. Third bait, shortened leader moved off the rock a little and haul up a nice 15lb gag. We couldn't get the big boys off the structure far enough to have a chance. The same places that produced triggers 2 weeks ago had 18-20 inch snapper all over them.
We caught several really nice snapper as well.
We moved in to the beach no cobes but we found a pod of red fish and had a blast. We fished AL port in AL waters under my AL guide permit so we could keep a few oversized fish. Everything we kept was barely over except one we killed on the hook.
Final talley for the box was
1 gag
1 scamp
2 trigger
4 mingos
5 30" reds
1 bull red
Not a heavy box but alot of fun and blackened Redfish all around.
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