Wednesday, 10/23, I fished the Bonita reefs with David Koenigsmark and Hubert Wright. Seas were predicted to build and we knew heading much further out than the reefs wasn’t likely to be too comfortable. The guys had just this day to fish, so we decided on the reefs about six miles from shore. Conditions got rougher as the morning progressed but we managed to bring home ten keeper mangrove snapper and a 14 inch sheepshead. We released additional mangs, grouper shorts, two small flounders and a three-foot barracuda. We used live shrimp for all. The rest of my trips have been inshore (please check the inshore forum.)

The photo shown is of angler, Brad Bernardy, with a ten-pound bonito, caught on a live shrimp and released on a recent offshore Fishbuster Charter.