I had an awesome trip as the deckhand aboard Captain Travis Ormond's offshore charter boat, Pelagic today. And so did the clients and guests aboard for the trip. Making bait started out pretty slow, but soon Captain Bling found the meatball of pinfish and pigfish. We anchored on it and started the process of blacking out the well. Even though we had six Sabiki rigs working, it still took 45 minutes before Bling was comfortable with the amount of bait swimming in the livewell. Great bait, hand-sized pigfish and pinfish, some squirrelfish, bluerunners, lizardfish, and threadfins.
First stop was a super secret number. It did not dissapoint! The first few fish hooked up were solid 40pound Amberjacks. Anglers were jacked down to the gunnels of the boat and powerless against the onslaught of jacks. It was actually very frustrating to catch these delicious, powerful, and beautiful fish. We were after Gag grouper, and the hungry Amberjacks (reef donkies) were eating all our bait!
Long story short, we cranked and lifted and grunted. We broke a sweat, and bled. Everyone aboard earned bruises and laughed and hollered as they did battle with grouper and amberjack and sharks. And battle it was, because that is why they call it fighting fish. We ended up catching a full limit of Gag Grouper from 7-15 pounds and an equally nice limit of Red Grouper in the same size range. Did I mention the weather was BEAUTIFUL for november?
Captain Travis Ormond
Pelagic Charters
941-374-1669
$100/hour
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