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I never been down to the piers when people had much sucess with big catches. I never see anybody ever wheel coolers out tthere big enough to hold a king or a ling. for the ones that really catches them, ya just chop it in half to make them fit in the cooler? or do ya just give the kings away or release theM? what about bonitas? does anybody keep them or do they make good bait? are the bonitas ever thick at the pier? i bet they fight!
Thanks for the info.
Most folks clean and put them in freezer bags in their coolers bonitas come in from time to time ive never seen them as thick as the florida piers,i have seen them thick a few miles out. I dont use them for bait from the pier,you could use a belly strip off one or chunck it up for bottom fishing. You probably wont catch anything you really want bottom fishing it but a mackeral would hit the belly strips.
They have cleaning tables at the half way point so you can just take the fillets with you not the whole fish.
Big ol soft fish bag !!