Popular Post pondfisher Posted December 12, 2020 Popular Post Report Share Posted December 12, 2020 A day to remember, yesterday, with a ferocious, non-stop gag bite in Tampa Bay. Two anglers - 10 fish - all between 25-30”. Releasing large keeper grouper is painful business. Alas.... still time left on the clock! 2 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
linesider 159 Posted December 12, 2020 Report Share Posted December 12, 2020 Killer work! Also, I cut the throats to bleed out the grouper and meat seems to come out even cleaner. Just a thought. Hoping to sneak out Sunday for some gags 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pondfisher Posted December 12, 2020 Author Report Share Posted December 12, 2020 1 hour ago, linesider 159 said: Killer work! Also, I cut the throats to bleed out the grouper and meat seems to come out even cleaner. Just a thought. Hoping to sneak out Sunday for some gags Definitely do it if you can. They’s a chewin’! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GlennF Posted December 13, 2020 Report Share Posted December 13, 2020 Great job! Thanks for sharing. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Capt. Troy Posted December 13, 2020 Report Share Posted December 13, 2020 Dead meat buddy. Friday was tough. I had to catch one myself 💪 I let my buddy hold this one up. The thing almost jumped. Wildest gag fight ever for me You have awakened the sleeping giant. Good job and those are some nice fish! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pondfisher Posted December 13, 2020 Author Report Share Posted December 13, 2020 8 hours ago, Capt. Troy said: Dead meat buddy. Friday was tough. I had to catch one myself 💪 I let my buddy hold this one up. The thing almost jumped. Wildest gag fight ever for me You have awakened the sleeping giant. Good job and those are some nice fish! Dear Sleeping Giant, Thank you very much for inspiring me to get back out there before the closure because I truly wasn’t sure I’d be able to manage another trip. In fact, in the past 15 years of fishing these gags this was the first time we couldn’t find bait so had to stop at that floating bait shop across from O’Neiis to get our pinfish and at a steep price. So I wasn’t sure I’d be able to keep the fun going with these creative post titles until we actually finally secured some big pins and dropped them down. Luckily, our first three baits down all got crushed and we had three of our four limit fish within about 10 minutes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Capt. Troy Posted December 13, 2020 Report Share Posted December 13, 2020 It took me 3 hours to hook and line pin fish on Thursday. Water temp at 60. The water in 20 to 30 feet was pea green dirty and 60 degrees out there. Huge drop in water temp. It was 74 last week. The bite was very slow but the fish were all nice ones. Got checked yesterday at the marina by FWC. Some A hole called and said I was over limit. We decided to not finish cleaning the boat and the fish until yesterday as Friday we got in late. My buddies had not shown up and I was alone with 10 gags in the fish box.🤔 Luckily the officer was a buddy of mine and I explained the crew would be there shortly. With a grin he said he may have to seize the fish for evidence. While we were talking another guy walks up to the cleaning table and starts cleaning some fish. One of his gags was 22 inches. Expensive grouper! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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