Sea Legs has been out of commission for over 2 months. Now that it’s back the boat is beatiful and running better than ever. Night trips are one of my favorites. We had a cool night. Temperature in the 60's. Flat seas and a south current. We had about 20 fares and the usual stern scum... Me included in that. The moon almost full with just a slither remaining. Our first spot was at about 60 feet and I started on the bottom with a long leader and a ballyhoo plug. I pulled up a decent Mangrove about 16inches. Jesus who was flating with silversides pulled in a huge 5lb Mangrove. I quickly put away my bottom rig and switched to flat lining. We were pulling in nice Yellowtails and Grovers but the captain decided to move because the stern was the only folks catching fish.
The theme was similar for the rest of the night. Folks on the side where picking at the usual bottom fish. Nice grunts and a huge 4lb Porgy came up as the stern was pulling in the tails and grovers. George pulled in a nice 4.5lb Mangrove and the pickings continued. As the night ended we ended up on a reef ledge in 20 feet of water and pulled in about 100 snappers. A decent night. It’s always fun being out on the Legs for me. Not just because Kenny (the captain) always tries hard to put you on fish, but because the crowd of people are always cool and it’s almost like a social club for me. Anyway, enjoy the pictures.

Nice report & great catch

Really nice snappers for this time of the year.

Those are some fat grovers, good job

Nice snappers. That' looked like a fun night.

What are silversides?

they did pretty good on the grover's
yall were right off the pier i saw the boat

Go to a baitshop & ask for them.

Good job man great grovers for sure, and awesome tails too time to grub.

silversides are a small baitfish thats commonly used for snappers and other species as well, good effective bait.

nice job, flatlining for tails and mangroves is a blast

Believe it or not. Silversides are fresh water fish. They were introduced for yellowtails by accident. Bait suppliers where out of ballyhoo and asked if the boat captains would settle for Silversides because there was nothing else. Kenny tells me he started it in South Florida. The Yellowtails slam em. Mangroves love them too! Muttons hit them occasionally as well.

Really nice mangroves.

Nice trip.... way to break in the new (old) boat

I hear they slammed them last night as well.

Thanks for the info. I need to go on sea legs one day

Yeh we had a good trip sat night couple 6lb muttons and I had my limit of Ytails and mangroves.