What a sweet trip! With spring like air temps, flat seas, top to bottom vis and a fresh rebuild pushing us along at 20kts. What more could you ask for?.. Oh yeah, how about copious amounts of Gags, a plethora of Hogs and Jacks a plenty – Ok, you got it!

Jim, Kevin ( Topshotta ) and Jeff ( Speargun ) started the madness on one of the inshore rock piles and broke the ice with stuffed stringers(HOD’s) Yawn – Just another day off the “Hatch”. George (JaxReefSounder), Jeff and I hit on of Jim’s hot wrecks and weren’t disappointed. The Jacks met us 10ft. under the boat and tried to obscure the view all the way down. I left a Donkey on the bottom while I looked around and saw a Mutton near 15lbs trying to drag my Jack under the wreck!

Once in the Grounds, the Gags were thick. Val, Steve and George showed their East side stuff putting the steel to many a “Gray”. There was some serious snoring going on Saturday night. Follow a good day shooting with a pan of baked ziti and top with a wicked Gag bite and everybody was out like a light.

Since we were limited out on Gags, Sunday was a Hog and Mango hunt. Working further down we managed to box a lot of nice Snouters and Jeff got a personal best Lobster. Two more inshore stops on the way home filled out the AJ limit and pumped up the mango tally.

Nice shooting Guys and thanks again for a great trip!

Ty