This isn't anything like headboat fishing, it's much better
A few good friends who know how to fish, plenty of fish, life doesn't get any finer.
Honestly, I really enjoy bottom fishing in deep water period, you never know what you might real up and it usually pulls pretty good too
This trip was different from my other trips with Richard, and different from my normal local bottom fishing. Locally we have to fish in 100+ feet of water to catch good grouper and snapper, summer and winter. Fishing in the GOM in the spring and summer is about the same, but in fall the fish are in 30-40 feet of water in the Gulf. That ain't my territory but Richard knows where to find them. I've never caught grouper or snapper that shallow before. You still never know what you are going to come up with, and some of them pull real good. Really good
Good enough that quality 80 lb tackle sometimes won't even turn them around
. We left quite a few fish in the rocks.
Completed GF12 X 2, GF16, OD18, FS18, GF5, GF18, CL6
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