1st one on livelined snapper this year
384 views·3 replies·by pequa1
21", and within 50 yards of the waterfront homes again. I had a harder time catching all of two snappers than I did getting the fluke. Hopefully they don't grow too big to liveline too soon ! Conditions were kind of crummy, humid, overcast, with an annoying 5 knot SW breeze, and a lot of weed; lettuce, "adult" slip gut, and eel grass, a regular smorgasboard. Those three fish were my total for the morning and I let the second snapper go, albeit with a hole in front of his dorsal, lol, as it was a pita trying to liveline it, with the keeper over the side on a stringer and the wind and current pushing me too fast once it switched to incoming.
CommodoreOriginal Crew7,027 postsSince 2018
I've always wanted to try live snappers for fluke.
Captain4,988 postsSince 2020
But sacrificed 8 snappers (while possessing no more than 3 at a time) for not a single fluke this weekend ! All but one were perfect size based on past experience, and as luck would have it, only the largest attracted an attack by a toothy predator. Based on the mangled body and lack of any real weight for a few seconds, it was probably a short fluke or cocktail with an overactive imagination. Ended up letting half of them go albeit with the aforementioned hook hole.
CommodoreOriginal Crew7,027 postsSince 2018
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