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Ruby Red Lip
 
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| left OB around 530 sunday morning. we stopped by the bait boat to get some live cigs. the bait boat was there as usual but nobody home. oh well. we had a mess of pinfish so figured that would have to do. got out to the edge and trolled for a little while. the port rigger got hit and my buddy fights the fish close to the boat. we got a glimpse of it and it was about a 15 lb dolphin. as soon as we saw it he spit the hook. i had a bunch of guys on the boat who rarely saltwater fish and figured they would get bored trolling all day so we went to bottom bumping. anchored up on the edge and immediately started catching monster beeliners. my father-in-law was pulling them up one after the other. we caught a mess of them and moved around the edge a couple times but couldnt get any other species to bite. headed southwest to the yellow gravel and anchored up in 220 ft of water. it was on pretty quick as my father-in-law pulled in this gag that weiged in at 11 lbs. 
the scamp started biting and we landed some nice red groupers. 
live bait didnt work to well today. most of the scamp and groupers were caught on filets and butterflied baits. didnt have much luck jigging. we got broken off by some big fish. they pulled like grouper but some may have been sharks. we were using 80 lb fluoro, may have to get a little bigger test just to have on hand. there was also a 6-7 foot hammerhead circling the boat that my buddy hooked up to have a little fun on. he fought the fish for about 10 minutes before the leader popped. everyone had a good time and caught some good fish. total for the day was 1 gag grouper, 3 red grouper, 5 scamp and 13 beeliners. 
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Trigger
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| You had to work for them, but you got some nice fish. Thanks for the report.
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Grouper
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Sailfish
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Looks like some fine filets
Mike
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Trigger
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Nice catch. Thanks for the pictures.
you never know unless you go.
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