Well it seems as if the wind and rains would never stop, but we got a quick 6 hour trip in between the gusts. Jim Winton and sons came down for the day and it was worth the little bit of banging around in 2-4 ft seas. The water temps have dropped to 65 and the sea was cloudy to about 3 miles out, the spanish mackerel had vanished, we spent a little time waiting for the seas to calm and trolled a few miles, nothing. We headed to a nearshore number where i've been catching big redfish, and fish-on! We had the skunk outta the boat early, and followed that 27 inch redfish with 3 gag grouper, 2 grouper and the redfish went into the box and we moved further offshore. About 6 miles out and in 40 ft of water we marked fish on concrete rubble, however the out-of-season red snapper bit before the grouper could get a chance. We caught and carefully released over 50 fish in 4 hours, because we were so shallow the fish survive well with a careful hook removal, i will be back to this spot on June 1st !!! The boys had sore arms and big grins, in fact Parker age 13 caught 10 snapper on one piece of cut bonita!! thats gotta be a record....
Went back to the nearshore redfish hole later in the day, another big red, this one just over 29 inches, so it was back into the pond to make little redfish and back to port. The winds picked back up from the south, so at least this next blow should bring warmer water, cobia gotta be close.
Thanks to Brent from Bluewater Outriggers for going along and helping me keep those boys fishing, it was a really good day...
