Deepwater 6-30-7-4

[yak'em-n-stack'em]

Went out on 2 overnighters last week on my off hitch, first trip was thursday and friday, left the dock and headed south fished brutus and genisis with medheavy as part of the crew, picked up 2 yft for the 2 new guys on board, but the fish just werent there, friday we headed north and stumbled upon a reef that went from 480ft up to 260, with 20-40 ft deep holes in it, we got on hammer snapper and some grouper, smallest snapper going 18 pounds, largest going 25 along with three different grouper species and a red porgey and some chicken dolphin
great day.

got back to the dock cleaned the boat and rounded up a new crew for sat and sunday, headed back out saturday with 2 new green horns. picked up a bunch of Blackfin as usual, but no real marks at brutus, so we headed to a newly installed rig,
some blackfin showing up but we were low on live bait so decided to move again to a rumored big fish rig,

we found her on radar and headed to her, got there to find yft hitting the surface, but only picked up 1 yft and a bunch of blacks, so we settled in for our night fishing pattern picking up bft and napping.

at daylight we put our last 2 live bait down and in 1 minute it was double hook up, i could tell mine was a bft, so i got him in quick because we knew we had a good fish on the line. and he was a fighter, so we strapped the greenhorn in and it was on. he fought for 1.5 hours before he got it to the boat and we drifted for 2 miles,

i was able to get in the water and video and swim with this beautiful 95 pound yft, AMAZING!!!!!!!
stopped at the reef again but only picked up some "small snapper" in the 14-16 pound range so we headed north and picked up some more decent snapper at some south tim rigs and headed in, over all a great experience and a great time

[yak'em-n-stack'em]

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[yak'em-n-stack'em]

sorry the pics are sideways, i cant seem to get them to upload right

[specktator]

Looks like an awesome trip dude!

[yak'em-n-stack'em]

bottom of the boot was one the green horns as well

[yak'em-n-stack'em]

a few more

[Montauk17]

Thanks for the report! Looks like yall had a awesome trip! That pic with the popper is the best one,that is more addictive then crack!

[yak'em-n-stack'em]

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[yak'em-n-stack'em]

Yeah man. He missed the pick of the bft exploding right after that

[southern151]

That is awesome! I would love to get to go deckhand for one these boats a couple of times! I know it's work but, that's not an issue with me!

Great report!

[SaltyShaw]

Damn!! I need to go with you one day I just want to catch some snapper and grouper!
Good Haul man, y'all stop by my place? I'll get a sticker for ya

[yak'em-n-stack'em]

We might visit you next weekend

[SaltyShaw]

I am here now and will be here then, I'm working nights so Holla at me. You still have the number I gave you?

[fishmaster911]

Awesome trips u guys had ! Maybe one day ! Lol

[shellman]

Awesome trip guys...Very nice pics...

[yak'em-n-stack'em]

Sure do kade

[Dink]

You would've caught twice that many if you had Mercs on the back!!


Can't leave well enough alone........


Good trip bro!

[yak'em-n-stack'em]

wouldnt have made it out of the pass with mercs on

[Mediumheavyaction6'6]

thanks for posting that Austin, I had a great trip with a great friend. I am looking forward to hitting it up again soon.

[BIGJ]

Looks like a jam up trip yall had right there.