Well, back from G.I. Didn't do much on the specks, but we did well on the Mangroves. Sizes ranged from 12 1/2" to 26". Sneaky little suckers, in spite of us using 65# braid and 50# flouro leader with big rods, they continued to hang us up on the bottom. They weren't biting close to the platform, rather they were about 20 yds. from it. There appeared to be a bunch of junk on the bottom that they would tie us up with until we had to break the line (which was darn difficult with what we were using). Last fish I caught tied me up with a pipe which I managed to break off and drag up to the surface, then I saw that although he had circled the pipe, he was still hooked so we called that our "pipe fish".
Didn't see a ling, but I was ready with a bucktail if he had showed his face.
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