15miles out of Ft De Soto Central West
Posted: Sun Sep 27, 2015 9:02 pm
Was trying to find a new fishing spot, so we headed out of the Ft. First we started off trolling and wasn't doing much good. We then go to a spot on the hotspot map but someone beat us to it. We go past them a bit and then start drifting and landing grunts... Told my friend not to anchor until we get a good fish.. 30mins later we stopped catching any fish at all. We went back to the spot and anchor up. Started chumming a little while we catch grunts. I toss out a flatline with a dead bait on. After a while, I saw the line moving out fast (bail open), I close the bail and the drag started screaming and after a while got a mango snapper in the 16". Then the process continue, until we almost have our limit and it dies out. I didn't expect to fish for mango like you would do for yellow tail down south. An accident of trying to get a mack, king, cobia, etc on a flatline saved the day or we would just be catching grunts.
14 - 20" mango
caught a few macks as well... largest is 22" to the fork.
14 - 20" mango
caught a few macks as well... largest is 22" to the fork.
