Destin Snapper Jigging

[Sea Draggin]

This week I went to visit George for the day to do some Snapper/Grouper jigging down in Destin, FL. We headed out at the early hour of 7:00 am. Those that have fished with me might appreciate that aspect of my trip.

George took us west and headed off Navarre. The nice thing about George is that he has dove all the spots and knows exactly what and where the structure is. Your not fishing blind when you have actually seen it, and I appreciated that experience.

We started the day with some light tackle casting to bonitos to make some bait if needed. I had said I was jig only, but will to have some fun with it. Although we were casting to bonitos, we kept catching huge blue runners.

The snappers bit good, until a party boat pulled on top of us and started catching small snappers with the chicken rigs. They shut our jig bite off totally. We fished around a little more and got a flounder and some other stuff, before heading off deeper.




Flounder on Pink Aki Jig


We fished some ledges and different areas George had. There was one spot in particular that George had that was loaded with bait. After jigging a few drifts with no love, and being later in the day, I broke my commitment with myself and dropped a piece of bait, which immediately resulted in a 7' Sandbar shark. :/





It was a great day on the water. The Potroast Aki Jig ruled it.

[babalaza]

"This video contains content from WMG, who has blocked it on copyright grounds"

[Sea Draggin]

"This video contains content from WMG, who has blocked it on copyright grounds"

Must just be blocked in other countries.

Sorry about the Blooper there George, couldn't resist.

[clt_capt]

Must just be blocked in other countries.

Sorry about the Blooper there George, couldn't resist.

As much as Florida seems like another country, your video is blocked in God's Country of NC too

[Agitated88]

As much as Florida seems like another country, your video is blocked in God's Country of NC too

Tornado Alley is blocked as well...

[Sea Draggin]

Without tunes, so everyone can see it.

[Agitated88]

Without tunes, so everyone can see it.

Now that's service!

[clt_capt]

Thank you kind sir. It plays now - Nice collection of snapper.

[N2theBlue]

does it seem like the Aki type jig gets more snappers/groupers than amberjacks? I really have no desire to tangle with AJ's unless I'm trying to just put people on fish and I'd like to target the groupers/snappers/african pomps more when i do get a chance to try this jigging stuff.

[Sea Draggin]

We did/have got jacks with it, because they eat everything, but it is a jig for targeting bottom fish. You can sneak it past a little better and giving it a subtle action is not the go to jack atractor.