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Pin Fish
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| Have been fishing about 10 to 15 miles out from Perdido Pass. Everything I catch is Red Snapper and ofcourse the season is closed so I release them. Any ideas of a public artificial reef within maybe 25 miles out that might hold Amberjack, Grouper or something else I can keep and eat, lol. I have most of the public numbers already loaded in my GPS. Any help is appreciated.
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| Welcome to the Forum. I would concentrate more on fishing tactics then on location. If you are dropping down small cut baits or shrimp or squid, then you will catch Red Snapper. Try size 1 circle hooks higher in the water column with squid and you might hook into some triggerfish. Drop the same rig to the bottom and you are gonna attract the red snapper. Any live bait, larger than 4 inches or so, near the bottom will attract Grouper, but will be too big for the smaller Red Snapper to mess with. A live Hardtail about half way down the water column will get ya a AJ or any other large preditor (King, Shark). In a nutshell.....If you want Big Fish, use Big Baits. Small baits get ya small fish. Don't forget, you still have about 10 more days til Grouper are legal again. Just my 2 cents. Tim
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Pin Fish
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| Thanks. Wow, love this site, what a quick response.
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| Try the Chevron rig. It's a public spot about 20miles out that's covered up with AJ's. Grouper season is closed until the 15th in Federal waters, so you won't be able to keep any. We caught a ton of AJ's there and a grouper all on williamson butterfly jigs. Look in the reports section under massacre aboard the Bella. Live baits will work too, especially a big live mingo snapper. Bob
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In most of our recent dive expeditions, the AJ's have been holding about 20-30 feet off the bottom or off the top of the wreck on most of the wrecks. Head out to deeper water (120-140 feet at least) to get the bigger ones. There are bigger ones mixed in on some of the shallower wrecks, but on rod and reel, you will have to catch about 100 short AJ's before you probably get a keeper on the shallow wrecks. But no matter what, the AJ's seem to be hungry no matter where you go recently. During our last trip on our surface interval, a diamond jig got hit pretty much one right after the other.
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bellafishing (3/5/2008)
Try the Chevron rig. It's a public spot about 20miles out that's covered up with AJ's.
Hey bob, correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the chevron 20 miles out from P'cola pass? I think he was asking about perdido pass...aka my neck of the woods!! In which case I can tell you right now, unless you've got a good private number or 10, I wouldn't have my hopes that high on catching whopper groupers or AJs. For the rare times I take buddies out bottom fishing, we don't even put lines in (excluding wahoo spread) until we are about 35 miles out, or somewhere no less than 180-200' of water. There are a lot of good spots just to the north of petronius...and I mean A LOT....troll around dragging a couple of yozuri bonitas but focus intently on your bottom finder. Lot of natural rocks and areas around there that hold a whole mess of gags, yellowedge, and AJ's. Then, when you decide to drop a line down, rig a 8-10' leader of 100# test with circle hook snelled on (matched to the size of your live bait, which should be a bigass hardtail or big pinfish, etc.) and make sure you have enough weight to get it down; the current can be pretty racy around that area, and then hang on. If you haven't gotten a bite in a couple of minutes, I'd try another spot. If you're wanting meat fish, then try fishing the tanks (numbers posted somewhere on the orange beach sites) for triggers. They are incredible eating no matter how you cook them; and those tanks will usually hold a whole mess of them. I cannot stress to you enough how important it is to invest in a good bottom machine and watch it. Myself or my 2nd mate is always watching ours while we're running, whether we're going for marlin or groupers. One little click of the "mark" button on the GPS and we have ourselves a new spot to bottom fish. Generally, when triggers are actively feeding, they will hold a bit higher up in the water column, and in a big cluster. Drop small hooks tipped with squid or cut fish and you should have no problem filling up your box in a hurry. I think the limit on those is 10 fish per person.
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