11/23/2012 Edge trip

Well, it's been almost 5 months since I've been able to fish offshore. The boat I normally fish on has had some issues with her motors but was was recently repowered. The new motors ran great, purred like a kitten.

There were six of us on this trip and given this was the first offshore trip with the new motors, we stayed within 30 miles or so of Pensacola pass. We hit the Edge and did some trolling first thing in the morning. This produced 6 blackfin tunas and too many bonita to count. We put the blackfins on ice and saved some of the bonita for deep drop bait for a future trip.

We then did a little bottom fishing and were able to get a limit of grouper (21 scamp, 1 red grouper, and 2 speckled hinds), a limit of amberjack, and two almaco jacks. I failed to mention that on our way out of the pass, we were able to 'sabiki' about 70 cigar minnows and threw them in the live well. all of the grouper were caught on the live cigar minnows.

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Looks like you had plenty of action and brought home lots of good groceries.

Good to hear the boat issues were resolved Brad! :yippee:

Great report and groceries :headbang:

That boat and crew always brings home the groceries :fishing: ....the captain and son sure know what,where and how to do it :3some:

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....the captain and son sure know what,where and how to do it
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agree. i've been very fortunate to be in a position the past few years to learn from some of the best.

looks like u had a good trip...we went out yesterday an we didnt do worth a crap.we got 2 red grouper 4 scamp an a lot of beliner.but no jacks?....we had to let go some BIG snapper :angry: :angry:

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[quote author=ironman172 link=topic=2339.msg21528#msg21528 date=1353769482]
....the captain and son sure know what,where and how to do it
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agree. i've been very fortunate to be in a position the past few years to learn from some of the best.
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so was I...... till my last and final trip.....Oh well..... I can sleep at night....see you on the pier Fiver

Awesome catch! It's nice to catch days this time of year to get out there! Very tasty mess of fish there!