8 Amberjack 2 Barracuda 1 Grouper, Scamp 3 Mackerel, King 3 Snapper, Red 6 Snapper, White 1 Trigger Fish
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Fishing report from our 30 hour trip from this past weekend. Doing this to demonstrate my inexperience and hopefully help others out. I know many of you are experienced anglers, but I was thinking some newbie might stroll by that could learn from my lack of knowledge.
Had my mind on going blue water fishing no matter what. Weather was perfect, seas were 1 foot, what else could one ask for. Oh yeah I forgot, BLUE WATER. Hence the name ... blue water fishing. Heck I didn't know you had to have blue water to actually blue water fish. I thought water was water. So its a little green, with a hint of brown. I know some 30 year veteran salty dog is laughing his head off thinking, "surprised you new enough to go south from shore ." Well I was most concerned with countours and overall depths and not water color/clarity. Well we spent at least 10 hours of time, many gallons of fuel, and all the energy we could muster and managed to catch 1 bonita that could have passed himself off as a pogey. The Ram Powell, Marlin and Petronius rigs could have been in Mobile Bay and they wouldn't have had much better water color.
This was in the same area that a few weeks ago we caught tuna trolling and got tired of catching blackfins with diamond jigs at night. It was like catching blue gills on crickets. Too easy. Boy what a difference a few weeks and a couple billion gallons of muddy Missippi rain water can make. We can't cover all the bases each time but I imagine there a few basic rules that if followed will improve your chances of having a good trip. I am going to put, "finding blue water when attempting blue water fishing" right on the top of my list, right after "put drain plug back in boat prior to putting boat in water to dramatically improve fuel effeciency." The things us newbies put ourselves through.
We did make the best of things and stopped at the 50 mile rigs and landed a few nice fish. Brother in law caught his 1st AJ, nice 32 lb'er. Look on his face was priceless. Got to try out the new tuna tower this weekend also. We are thinking of converting it to a bird watching post until the water clears back up.
Few pics to go along with all this chatter. Fish on folks!!!
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