Last snapper trip for 2012

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Originally Posted by Tete Dur

Looks like you guys did great!! Nice meat haul!!

I was in the Pathfinder that launched right after you guys. We only went out 25 miles and 60 ft of water. I wish we would have gone further becasue we couldn't get away from the 15" snapper. We must have caught 50 of them. We caught several black tips too but nothing big enough to keep. We were 0 for 2 on the ling. We had a 40 to 50 lb ling on the line and it got tangled in the motor and cut the line on the prop and the other spit the hook at the boat before we could get it in. We only ended the day with 4 keeper snapper.

I have no doubts if they would let us fish snapper in the cooler months we can catch the box of fish I had in 60' of water. I have learned that those big fish do not like water temps that high in the shallows so I run for minimal 80' depths. It's worth the extra run time, but you gotta pick your days when in a bay boat.