Post by knottybynature on Aug 3, 2008 20:12:30 GMT -5
Got to the ssp at about 5pm. Went strait to the alley. Caught some bait and kept catching 10in macks. Caught about 50 at least of those dinks then the sun set. Tried for some mangos. #1 comes over by my dad, #2 comes over by me, #3 comes over by my dad. 2 were 11in, 1 was 13. THEN as my dad is snapper fishing, a -50lb tarpon comes by, sees a free snack and takes it. He hooks this tarpon and it is on for maybe 10-15 seconds till it wraps him on the pilling he is fishin next to. After that everyting just stoped. I saw tons of lady fish bustin the surface so i grabed the spoon and tried to catch em. nothin. My dad tried for some grouper. nothin. Then my dad looked at those ladyfish. He shined a big light at 1. We realized there were snook in that mix. 20lb+. There were a dozen or so of them. We got set up for them and tried for them. We let a greenie out there for them. We try for snapper again. My dad catches about a 2lb ladyfish. After that nothin. Saw a few tarpon at night. Saw a bunch of sharks at night. Mainly bonet heads. Tried for those to nothing. Also caught a couple whiting ???Unexpected. Everything was slow so its time to sleep. My dad stayed awake and caught nothin. Then we moved to the end with chris(dive2cfish). They tried for grouper and i got my tarpon rig set up. Put half of the ladyfish my dad caught on it and tried to wake up. About 6:30 we started seeing some mack bust some bait. These werent those dinks, these were 30in+ macks. No room to throw a spoon and they were right by the pier. They left as the sun rose. Went shallower for some grouper. as they tried grouper I tried snapper at the reef. After about 5 minites BANG a hit. It was pulling hard and I was hoping he was a snapper. Turned out to be a foot long red grouper. Bigest 1 Ive seen on the pier. After that nothin but pins for later. Moved down to the Y for macks. 1 after another was being pulled up but no keepers. After about the 50th one a nice keeper gets pulled over, about 15in. Then after about 30 more get pulled over, another keeper. This 1 is mine so on the hook for Tarpon it goes. Catch about another 30 more then head back down to the alley. Reel up my tarpon rig and see what my bait looks like. Half of it is gone with the spine still there. Dang crabs. Go to the very end and they try for grouper and I try for mackrel. I catch another 50 or so dinky macks then try for snapper. Nothin again again. Go back to macks for the end of the day. Catch between me and my dad then about 75 macks. 1 was a nice one caught by me again. We werent keeping them so gave it to the guy next to us. Then left.