Near Shore Day July 14
After the past few deep runs we decided to try inshore. The 120-140 feet depths seem cleaned of life, we cannot figure out whats up.
So we decided to go to what we call Cobia Country, or the Betty Rose / tug boat area. Its about 40 feet deep. We had really good surface bait sign. Even schools of Ballyhoo jumping! We tied up to the bouy and caught a Spanish immediatly. anothejr boat was on the Tugboat. I though i say a pilot whale at one point. But it was a pair of divers that surfaced with our boat inbetween!!! We had motored right over them :0 no dive flag or nothing. They swam by the boat and gave us some intel on the fish below, but it was odd to see them pop up next to us like that. We moved over to the Tugboat per thier good advice. On shrimp and small gear caught some small keeper mangrove snappers. We caught another Spanish mackeral. The tugbot was covered in Ballyhoo and cigar minnows - its was great to see an area alive again. Its the kind of fishing i enjoy. We caught some really undersized red grouper, and a small Gag. Oddly I caught a Lane snapper and a yellow tail snapper - both not bigger than 6 inches, but it was cool all the same. We had some nice cut offs and runs but did not connect.
It was a nice day to be out on the water and see lots of fish action.
Happy fishing,Â
Eric
