Near-shore snapper & Spanish-Bonita Beach, SW FL

[fishbuster]

Tuesday morning, 7/31, brought some threatening skies, but the rain looked like it was fairly light on radar and was making its way south from Cape Coral. Lou Dellorco and family decided to give it a go at the near-shore reefs. We did pretty well before we were run in by rain. By 10:30 AM, winds picked up, seas got rough, and the rain was upon us. But by that time we had boated a dozen mangrove snapper to 12 inches, Spanish mackerel to 20 inches and triggerfish to 15 inches, so it was a pretty productive morning.

Fishing was slow at those same reefs on Friday when I fished with Graham Connor. We caught some keeper mangrove snapper and released two small goliath grouper and some ladyfish. Pinfish were all over the place out there. We were broken off in the rocks twice by something we never got to see.

The bay fishing was great for reds this week, so check out the post and pic on the inshore forum for those details.

[FLKingFisher]

Thanks for the report. Seems like Goliaths are the most common fish now a days. Even if it started out as something else. Can't beat the snapper on the table, had it for breakfast this morning actually