Fishing Report - was supposed to be a jigging day...

[DoubleA_FL]

So me and two buddies head out of St Petersburg with the plan to go tear up the grouper and snapper and king fish on the Middle Grounds.



I had found a weather bouy not on any maps holding TONS of cigar minnows so we head there. about a 50mi run thats sort of on the way. after the third Sabiki rig cut off by small sharks we gave up and headed due West to the middle grounds.

On the way out i spotted a white spot on the horrizon, as we got closer the spot got bigger, a lot bigger. Turns out it was the roof of a commercial fishing boat that had sank or been scuttled. to my delight all i could see in the water was Dolphin. I have never seen so many dolphin. So i grabbed my two light jigging rods, and my one inshore rod, put top water tackle on em and sent it out.


the picture doesnt really get the size across, its about 20-25ft long and about 15' wide. AWESOME!

First thing in the water was a Sebile 114mm Stick Shad. two twitches, Dolphin on. There were some GOOD sized bulls runnin with them but we couldnt coax them into the boat. i think the average size we caught was around 24-26 inches. But we had a lot of fun, light tackle can make any catch fun.


my friend sean on my inshore rod.




i couldnt fit em in but there were two other rods in rod holders with dolphin on.

after almost limiting on dolphin we made the run to the middle grounds and finished up with two nice red grouper and a monster snapper. due to time constraints i didnt want to waste time driving around trying to find good structure for jigging so we threw live bait and got a couple fish in the boat before having to turn around and head home.


snapper!


im just happy we got him in the boat - nice lip piercing.

were out sunrise to sunset and had a surprising and fun day. Even though the only reason i wanted to go out was jigging it was fun to find Dolphin and fish topwater.


just skimmin along the pond...


that isolated thunderstorm they forecasted, god bless radar


the sky as we docked

tight lines
aaron

[jig42na]

Nice report there. SOmetime you just have to go with the flow out there.
Very nice boat! What is it. I see the triples and I'm assuming it is a 33-36 footer. Nice

[Sea Draggin]

You have to take the day your given. That ship needs a marker on it badly.

Thanks for sharing your pics.

[seabass]

You have to take the day your given. That ship needs a marker on it badly.

Thanks for sharing your pics.

Somebody hits that thing at any kind of speed will be in a world of hurt.

[paul708]

nice report.
pics are realy sweet.
that looks like a great place to fish.

[DoubleA_FL]

yea, i took the hull number down, reported the current position and approximate vector. best i could do.

lol, a radar beacon would have been nice but i didnt have one laying around...

Edit: Forgot to answer your question. 36 Yellowfin, trip 300s. Best boat i have ever fished

[DoubleA_FL]

Nice report there. SOmetime you just have to go with the flow out there.
Very nice boat! What is it. I see the triples and I'm assuming it is a 33-36 footer. Nice

Jig42na - do you own a/work for Regulator boats? They have some design features i LOVE!

[jig42na]

Jig42na - do you own a/work for Regulator boats? They have some design features i LOVE!

I own a Regulator, I really like YF boats too, but the only thing I would like to test out is jigging up in the bow. They may be a bit high. But they are absolutely great boats.

You can come up here and tuna fish in NJ on the Reg if you let me fish on the YF in FL.

[DoubleA_FL]

hahaha, its a deal

[shoefish]

Catching is catching- great report and nice job taking advantage of the opportunity that presented itself.