Ken Neill
Apr 21 2008, 05:03 PM
Sunday, we ran offshore and did a little bottom fishing. I guess with all of the wind, these fish had not been touched in a while because the fishing was ridiculous. We quickly caught our 6 person grouper limit. Bob Manus caught a 53 pound 4 ounce snowy grouper. Steve Martin caught a 30 pound snowy and the rest of the limit were wreck fish. We then moved onto blueline tilefish and caught our 42 fish limit. It still was not lunchtime yet so we moved in a bit and hit a couple of sea bass spots and they were loaded up. We had our limit of sea bass in short order and came in early. This was a good thing because it took hours to clean all of those fish. Bernie Sparrer caught our largest sea bass at 5 pounds 14 ounces. We also caught a number of bluefish. We caught very few dogfish though Bob did manage to catch one which had a tag in it.
http://www.spinydogfish.org/ Bob gets a $10 reward.

Ken Neill
Apr 21 2008, 05:05 PM
skinnys-kid
Apr 21 2008, 05:11 PM
NICE haul!!! Congrats fellas. Thanks for another great report Ken!!
fordbjr
Apr 22 2008, 10:43 AM
very nice....good eatin'
Marlin Maniac
Apr 22 2008, 11:28 AM
Pretty work Ken! I see a whole lotta grouper sandwiches in their near future!
JohnsCarolina
Apr 22 2008, 05:15 PM
what an awesome day. Ive never bottom fished offshore. How do you catch grouper and tile fish? What type of rig and what do you use for bait? Id love to give it a try!!!John
bobdu11
Apr 22 2008, 06:19 PM
man...you always lay fish on the dock don't ya Ken....nice job...those are some awesome fish....Bob
G&H Lures
Apr 22 2008, 06:22 PM
Man....what a day!!!! Nice fish!!!
Ken Neill
Apr 22 2008, 08:34 PM
QUOTE (JohnsCarolina @ Apr 22 2008, 06:15 PM)

what an awesome day. Ive never bottom fished offshore. How do you catch grouper and tile fish? What type of rig and what do you use for bait? Id love to give it a try!!!John
Deep DroppingGrouper
VARugger442
Apr 22 2008, 10:17 PM
Wow! Great day!....Lot of good eating fish layin out...Thanks for the report
jmet
Apr 23 2008, 06:08 AM
from the looks of it wreck fishing seem to be producing much better results than offshore trolling.congrats on an awesome catch!!!
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