Hubbards Marina | Deep Sea Fishing | Dolphin Watching Tours | John's Pass Madeira Beach FL
Gag grouper fishing has been hot too and we are seeing them deep right now due to heat of the water. We are catching them using much larger live baits but also dead baits. A lot of big gags lately have been biting well on strips of the bonita, whole squid, and bigger threadfins with the tails cut. The trick is getting them landed once you get them to bite. That has been difficult unless you are using the appropriate tackle around 80lb leader minimum. However, around 100lb leader is best with around 7-12ot hooks depending on your bait size.
The 39 hour trips are slaying the red snapper right now along with some big gags, fat red grouper, some really nice scamp grouper, plentiful mangroves, some yellowtail, porgies, vermillion, almacos and more!
we had plentiful red grouper, scamp grouper and some nice big gag grouper too
Positive news though on our red snapper fishery! We now have a seventy nine day season starting June first and running through end of day August 18th.
The family owned and operated boating fleet won amongst a crowded and prestigious field.
We had a truly awe inspiring offshore pelagic bite with a nearly 100lb wahoo! We filmed with the T.A. Mahoney Co, for their show “Tails From The Darkside” on Waypoint TV
Red grouper action remains steady near shore as long as your past around seventy foot of water. We are seeing them on the live pinfish and also big threadfins with the tail cut.
Lane snapper and mangrove snapper are super thick and cooperative around 70-100ft of water in the deepest part of the near shore waters.
Mackerel are thick near shore still and we are seeing quite a few of them while trolling out and back on our five-hour half days.
