With the days getting shorter and hopefully cooler in the near future it has our fish, namely grouper and cobia on the move. This Wednesday I had the pleasure of fishing longtime friends Jack Thompson, Todd Frankel, and William Woodriff. We sat off to hit an inshore wreck. Captain Mike and I shot a show on Tuesday on this particular wreck catching Spanish mackerel, jack crevalle, and mangrove snapper. On Wednesday morning we were catching Spanish when all of a sudden flying out of the water like a Polaris Missile was a tarpon in the 110 pound range. This was way cool but not much could be done with him on 10 pound test line. It wasn’t long after that the snapper showed up and then something big rocked Jack up. We messed around with it for about 10 minutes after it tangled in our marker line we landed the fish and you guessed it was a gag grouper just a little of 26” long! Now I no that it's no big deal, but on 10 pound test spinning gear, the stuff we use for snook and redfish. We started pouring the chum to them and the grouper bite was on fish from 5 – 15 pounds coming over the rail, not to mention the snapper and Spanish in the mix. Todd and I look over the side and there are two cobia by the transom in the 40 pound range just hanging out, William threw a bait out and bam fish on. Unfortunately the brown bomber ran William into and around the wreck and it was over. The day yielded a limit of grouper, plenty of Spanish, and snapper. With the fall approaching this fishery should really heat up. Be sure to really chum up these wrecks as this seems to be the key at least for me it is.
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