7-18-09 Big Lake
 

Went out to the rigs southeast of big lake saturday morning. Caught 33 nice trout, few mackerel, bunch of sheephead, and few sharks. Had all trout by 6:45am. The bite slowed down so decided to head back in to Big Lake to try and finish our limit. Got to jetties and there were at least 50 boats there. Then headed north towards 9 mile cut. Could see about 10 boats around old jetties from ship channel. And counted 26 boats at 9 mile cut. So i decided i wasnt fighting all that mess and just headed in with my 33 trout, 12 short of our limit. Tried up loading pics but it is saying they are too big and i have to resize them.

is that the big group of rigs out there? how far out is that?

Rigs
 

They are about 7 miles out to east of jetties. Just bounce from rig to rig until find them. Look for the older rigs. Here are pics.

Nice catch. When is the fish fry?????

what is that yellow fish?



sorry never got into all the offshore fish..

pompano?

that was my guess, wasn't sure

Pompano or Permit, but never seen one so yellow.
They are more silver w/black fins.

hey whats some good ideas to target pompano???

awesome catch btw

pretty sure its a permit. my buddy wanted to keep it. i just dont eat all that stuff. prob caught 10 spanish mackerel, let them all go. people say they good, but ill stick with the trout. Bunch of huge sheephead also, one bit me the other day hurt like a motha! had about a 5 to 6 foot black tip shark smoking our trout when we were getting them to top. i hooked him and almost took me over my trolling motor. luckily he broke off before he snapped my rod. you can see teeth marks in 3rd fish from bottom on my 2nd pic.

i caught some african pompano out there one time, pretty cool

I have caught some African Pompano while working offshore also. Good eating fish.
They are some fighting mudders.

deff florida pompano..

we catch them with small bucktail jigs of the beach in Destin when they are running the coast every summer..

fish the troughs in the surfs using sand fleas or pomp jigs