Reel Screamers

We started out yesterday hoping to find the blue water that had been around earlier in the week. Marvin was treating his crew to a trip before his son heads off to Parris Island.

We left the slip pointed SE hoping to find the rip that had been there. As we approached the canyon, some 10 miles south of where the rip had been days before, the water was muddy on top. Marvin made the call to turn this into a bottom trip and start putting meat in the box instead of riding around all day looking for blue.

Long story short we had our limit of Amberjack in the boat at 8:30 am. After riding around a little more hoping to find grass, we headed in to shallower water to top the box off with snapper.

In no time we had our reduced limit of red snapper and actually never caught an under sized snapper. We shallowed things up looking for the mangroves but instead were greeted with the motherload of vermillion snapper.

The day got harry as we were trapped about 37 miles from the pass with a real nasty squal line between us and dry ground. It was one of those squals like we have had for the last week where they train, one behind the other in the same area.

The decision was made that the first time that there was a break in the clouds and the lightening, we were going to push it north as fast as we could and get home safely. We actually managed to do this without getting wet. There was however some freaky lightening popping close to us.

We finished the day with a full limit of AJ, a limit of red snapper, about 12 to 15 mangroves and we kept probably 20 of the larger vermillion snapper.

AJ's were all caught in the canyon on live bait. The red snapper were hanging tight to the bottom, the vermillions were about 60 feet deep and the mangroves were a mix of about 40 feet down to sight casting on top. Except for the AJ, everything was cut bait. Did not see a lemon fish all day.

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Gmack

Thanks for the report Capt. Darryl! Heard the "rip" was about 15-17 miles south of Fourchon last weekend.

Reel Screamers

That was last weekend. Gone now. Listening to two other boats on the water, they had blue out toward medusa but all of the grass had been scattered with no large concentration of fish. I do not know how they ended up because I left the area for bottom fish early that morning. The crew I had wanted quick action and was not that worried about the species or the size.

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hthoang

Yep, rip was inside of ST63 on Saturday....wasn't prepared for it so didn't catch any fish off of it. Anybody try the "dolphin candy" type lures yet? Looks like an Ilander....I wonder if I'd still need to top it off with a ballyhoo?

Gmack

No expert, but the chicken dolphin I caught loved shad rigs.

Gary

REDWEISER

Capt. Darryl

Basically, how far west was the muddy water coming .... WD?

Thanks

Red

Gmack

opps

Reel Screamers

We started out in WD and on the east side of the canyon. When we decided to make it a bottom trip I ran to my holes to the west.

I know of two other charter boats that continued to the east. I could barely hear one on the radio that was reporting blue water but no rip and as of early morning no hits on the troll. The other we saw going. He continued further east but we saw him coming back later in the day reporting poor conditions and turing the trip into a bottom trip. I later heard that the blue was south and east of 152 but no defined line.

Now with all of that said, you do realize that it does not mean a hill of beans? Good water could have moved in in as little as a few hours after I left.

You have to be willing to run and if your first choice is not the correct one, you have to be wiling to go somewhere else.

Good Luck

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REDWEISER

Thanks, I was just wondering how far west it was pushing into WD from Tiger Pass.