Kings in the Ship Channel

Dennis and Alex joined Jose and I for a 6-hour trip today. We started out trolling the John’s Pass channel which almost always produces a few fish. We got three Spanish, but only one was box-worthy. We trolled a few spots hoping for some more Spanish action but the fish had other ideas. We bottom fished a nice ledge and pulled in few grey snapper and then went over to the Egmont ship channel. We trolled the lower numbers and hit a nice pocket of bait which produced two nice kings and several bonita. One bonita got eaten by the first barracuda we have seen this year. The cuda was huge and took the lower half of the bonita in one spectacular bite. A good day was had by all-except that bonita!