Bottom fishing...

[awthacker]

... Is always best when everything is closed season

31" grouper, & 31" snapper both go back. Along with 10 or so smaller snapper. We get to keep 5 seabass and 3 flounder

 

[awthacker]

Posting pics from the phone doesn't seem to work well at all

 

[awthacker]

It was like a lake out there in the AM. One if my new favorite pics of the boat.

 

[Kracker Jack]

Im Jealous!!! Your fishing in trunks and im up here in full blown slickers! Lol!! Beautiful fish by the way.

 

[THEFERMANATOR]

I would have cried to have thrown them back. I'm afraid I would have practiced the old Key West tradition of filet and release.

 

[awthacker]

But we got to keep all these, lol.

That's my buddy Cory who caught the fish. I was diving for lionfish as part of a tournament.

 

[bradford]

Nice ones! How many lionfish you get?

 

[awthacker]

Only got 24 lions. Started in 85' and only found 4. Moved out to 100' and got 20 more. Then was kinda over it after getting only 24 in two drops. So we moved back to 85' for the 3rd drop, and I didn't even bring the lionfish container.

My buddy fished between and during my dives. He was getting slot of action in that 85' area, so we ended up spending a lot of time there, which was not where the lions were.

 

[phatdaddy]

wow, nice job on the lionfish. looks like the snapper on the east coast are just as "endangered" as the gulf coast ones.