Earning a nice fishbox
June 29, 2017 Fort Myers 3 photos
Barracuda (Great)
Barracuda (Great)
Bonito
Bonito
Dolphin (Mahi Mahi)
Dolphin (Mahi Mahi)
Grouper (Red)
Grouper (Red)
Snapper (Lane)
Snapper (Lane)
Scup (Porgy)
Scup (Porgy)
Snapper (Mangrove)
Snapper (Mangrove)
Snapper (Red)
Snapper (Red)
Snapper (Vermilion)
Snapper (Vermilion)
Tripletail
Tripletail

Trip Summary

Had a great weather window, and no charters on the books, I put together a long range trip to go explore some deeper water. Put a crew together and headed offshore. We sabiki'd up a ton of nice hand size pins before making the run out deep. Story of the trip was ZERO tidal flow/current. We would drift an area and move 40 ft in 10 minutes. We did find a floating 55 gallon garbage can that had all sorts of life. It had lots of small banded rudderfish, a giant school of yellowtail snapper, and a few good size tripletail. We picked off the 3 keepers, biggest at 19.5". The jacks wouldnt allow us to get to the yellowtail. Go figure. We also had a small school of mahi come around. We caught 5 or 6 but let them go as they were smaller, 18" fish. As far as the bottom bite went, We picked off 1 fish at a time,l in various depths, ranging as deep as 300 ft, not getting anything decent going until about 2 AM when we started to see some snapper action in shallower (140ish). Some good size mangos, a handful of vermillion and lanes and 1 legal ars made the box. The morning bite brought some decent grouper, with the biggest being a solid 31 inch fish. Winds picked up a little on our way back in and I was happy to lay in my super comfortable ocean tamer bean bag and catch a quick nap. Was a fun trip and we definitely earned what we had in the box. Learned a few things which I will apply towards my future trips.
Daniel Medina
Fort-myers, Florida, United States
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