Snapper Slappin' Weekend!

[Mechanicaldawg]

Myself and a few friends headed out of Panama City Saturday morning with a well full of cigs, pins & threadfins looking for the endangered red snapper.

It wasn't as easy to find them as we had hoped but after about 2 1/2 minutes of hovering over a little live bottom we managed to get bit! We caught our limit of snapper, a handful of scamp, a few chicken dolphin and two very nice black grouper!

It sure did hurt putting those grouper back over the gunwale!



Then we took a short run on Sunday morning to a little junk pile and caught our limit of red snapper in 9 minutes! On the last red we noticed that black snapper had followed the red up to the boat and quickly put a cig in their midst!

We ended up with a nice red grouper and king and let the 'greenhorns' have some fun catching a few bonita.

All that and back at the dock by 10AM!

Hard to beat!



Hopefully, the MSA will save the snapper from extinction! There are obviously none left!

[merry marlin]

Not many places in the world where you can do that... That sure is a healthy fishery!
Congrats on your fishing.
MM