Next it was Dad who was on with a screaming drag. This fish was running like it was on fire, peeling thirty pound test off Dad's big Penn with the manual pick up like it was a toy Barbie reel. We hear the fish jump, so I pull out my Q beam and the next time he jumps we see a 5 foot tarpon in the air He jumps about 10 more times and Dad fights him for 8 to 10 minutes before he finaly breaks him off with one last huge jump. He hooked the big boy free lining a 10 inch white trout. I didn't think the tarpon would still be around with this cold snap, but I guess they are passing through on the way back to south florida. Next I hooked up on something, that at first I thought was a small red but it was just a fat sail cat

I hooked this guy on a new penny jerk shad. Now Dad is hooked up again on another white trout. It was a good fight and he landed a 32 inch red.

Now it's Brendan in the hot seat with a red on the nuclear chicken. It's a nice 30 inch fish.

Now it gets interesting as we get a tripple hook up....man it was crazy...first it was Brendan again this time on a live white trout. It was pretty funny, He set the hook and the drag was just screaming, so Dad says Tighten your drag a little. Well Brendan was standing with his feet against the big fish box that was in the back of the boat, and right when he twisted that drag knob, that bull red decided to make a break for it. I swear Brendan almost went out of the boat, and I grabbed him by his sweat shirt and pulled him back up. As soon as Brendan had his feet on the ground I grabbed my big rod that had a live trout with a 1 ounce weight and started to reel it in to get it out of Brendan's way when....BAM....screaming drag and now we have two bull reds hooked up. Well we are yelling for Dad to get the net so he starts reeling in his rod with the nuclear chicken shrimp and...thats right....now we have three bulls hooked up at the same time....Talk about chaos...some how we all managed to stay away from one another and we landed all three of 'em!!!!!!! here they are

This one was Dad's

Here is Brendan's I think this is the right pic? It got a little crazy so I'm not sure...

and here is mine this was largest fish of the night at 40 inches!!!!

Well the bulls were in thick at this point and we could see them swimming on top of the water around the boat, and when you were fighting one, two or three others would follow them up to the top and swim around. Now it was my turn again this time with another nuclear chicken

Then it was Dad again.....

With another slot fish...look at all those spots...well it went on like this pretty much all night, we also caught a truck load of white trout, several small blue fish, and I even caught a 15 inch gag grouper....sorry no pic of the grouper it was caught at the same time as somebody was fighting a red and I just tossed it back with out getting a pic. I lost track of all the reds we caught and or lost but I know we landed at least 10 to 12 it was a blast and we would have stayed longer but that 'ol north wind started to pic up and it got a bit on the chilly side. If you guys and gals get a chance get out to the bridge at night you will have a great time.

Good luck and good fishing,

Glastronix

 
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Great pics, the 3r to last picture down is one big red, and the last picture is great, too..

Thanks for sharing.

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Capt. John Rivers
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Pensacola, Fl
Mega-Bite Inshore Charters

Great report and pics.



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nice sail cat too!  them things eat real good.

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We normaly don't use the white trout for live bait, but since we couldn't find anything else we decided to give 'em a try. also I figured if that was all I could find then maybe that was all the red fish could find also. Either way they seemed to really love them.

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Scott

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Oustanding report !!!!!!!!!! That last Red is pretty cool looking. Thanks for the report. You the man when it comes to fishing the 3 mile bridge.

Scott 

 

Thanks for the compliment but the fishes did most of the work. Y'all get out there and get you some, they are thick in the bridge lights!!!!! 

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