good to know, i always go out of the boca inlet. Also, have the yellowtails been staying on the bottom? because the past few times they havent been coming high enough to flat line even with heavy chumming and chunking. The groupers are all over the place, just put out a sardine and i got about 3 "potential keepers" out of like 20 of them 
Im not much of a phin fisher, but has there been schoolie ones? thats the ones that i like that follow the seaweed and bait
But i have heard that this cold weather isnt their preference, i think they like strong east winds to bring all that seaweed in close and thick.
yes they are hard to hook around the mouth .