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Got the offshore bug after last weekend so we decided to try a little in our own 19 foot Sea Hunt.
Launched at 6am at the Yacht Basin (which I will never do again, $10 launch fee
and long lines of idiots) and started off trying to find some trout. After catching a few smacks at the boat cut but no trout, we decided to head south. We ran southeast about 11 miles from the boat cut to a series of rigs. Stopped at the first one and couldn't get anything to hit a ribbon. To pass the time, i put a big weight on and a live shrimp and threw it down to the bottom. Started catching gulf trout (look just like sandies). As I hook into the 2nd fish, I start reeling and all of sudden my drag starts screaming on my Ambassadeur (15 lb test). A fish surfaces and kinda does a half jump and I immediately think ling. After another 10 seconds he pops off. As I reel in I can feel a dead weight and find a gulftrout on my hook in critical condition. It was likely a shark that got ahold of it but maybe it was a ling? The bite marks were not very deep though. I would think a shark would make a clean bite but who knows. So instead of throwing back the trout we start keeping them and put out a couple drifters with gulftrout on them. It wasn't long before a reel goes screaming. 15 minutes later I land somewhere around a 5 foot shark (can anyone ID from the pic? my guess is bull?) We played around with sharks for a while and then tried to start trolling for kings. But we had some lure issues and major tangleups so we ended up calling it a day. Not a whole lot of fish caught but I did get my biggest shark to date and had a blast clearing the jetties. I'm trying to learn and get into the whole offshore thing so hopefully next time I will bring some meat home!
Its kind of a crappy pic because you can't see the whole fish but it's all I got. And he was released
Launched at 6am at the Yacht Basin (which I will never do again, $10 launch fee
and long lines of idiots) and started off trying to find some trout. After catching a few smacks at the boat cut but no trout, we decided to head south. We ran southeast about 11 miles from the boat cut to a series of rigs. Stopped at the first one and couldn't get anything to hit a ribbon. To pass the time, i put a big weight on and a live shrimp and threw it down to the bottom. Started catching gulf trout (look just like sandies). As I hook into the 2nd fish, I start reeling and all of sudden my drag starts screaming on my Ambassadeur (15 lb test). A fish surfaces and kinda does a half jump and I immediately think ling. After another 10 seconds he pops off. As I reel in I can feel a dead weight and find a gulftrout on my hook in critical condition. It was likely a shark that got ahold of it but maybe it was a ling? The bite marks were not very deep though. I would think a shark would make a clean bite but who knows. So instead of throwing back the trout we start keeping them and put out a couple drifters with gulftrout on them. It wasn't long before a reel goes screaming. 15 minutes later I land somewhere around a 5 foot shark (can anyone ID from the pic? my guess is bull?) We played around with sharks for a while and then tried to start trolling for kings. But we had some lure issues and major tangleups so we ended up calling it a day. Not a whole lot of fish caught but I did get my biggest shark to date and had a blast clearing the jetties. I'm trying to learn and get into the whole offshore thing so hopefully next time I will bring some meat home!Its kind of a crappy pic because you can't see the whole fish but it's all I got. And he was released
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