07.25.11 - Guale Girl - 40mi bottom
 

So I took a buddy who spends all his time in the marsh grass stalking Redfish on his first offshore bottom fishin trip yesterday. Seas werent too bad on the way out and a lil' sloppy on the way in due to a south wind. Baited up at G reef and me and Jamie hooked up with 2 nice Snapper right on the first drop. He seems to think these reds pull a tad harder!!!!! We left G and went to the 40mi to find pretty water and a solid B-liner bite. This was the first time I have seen them at every number we dropped on. THEY WERE THICK!!!!! At one point we started movin around just to get away from them. We moved to my southern-most number and had a good bite there also with more reds, B-liners and Seabass. Then Jamie snags the bottom or at least I thought it was the bottom till I saw the head shake. After Jamie whomped on this fish for awhile, or maybe it was the other way around, He started making ground. I thought we were in for a 60lb Gag but turns out to be the biggest Nurse I've ever seen!!!! I'd say he was all over 9-9.5' and somewhere around the 300lb mark. For reference, the mooring cleat in that pic is 6" long. We cut the line and sent him/her on their way.
For a newbie offshore/bottom fisherman Jamie did very well but that's no surprise and it wouldn't surprise me if we see him out again where the big boys are. Also had a manatee waitin for a drink when we got to the dock which was a nice ending to the day


5 Reds to 15Lbs
limit of B-liners in as much time as it took to type this line
limit of BSB
1 black Margate
1 mogan of a Nurse shark, no doubt a state record.....

ssired, you...
well you know.

Thanks for the great post anyway!

At least you played with the Manatee.

SS very nice, you got good numbers!

Looks like and awesome day! Congats! That nurse shark looks fun.:clap:

wow, NICE!!!!

Thanks guys, its always a blast to be out there.

Should have seen my "numbers" before I got married, then you'd be impressed:zip: (the pics were better too!!!)

Hate to be the northerner to ask but what is a "B-liner"?
I never heard the term and I fish with my brother in Pompano Bch, FL quite a bit.

Mingo snapper, vermillion snapper. They are small snappers, red in color, football size at best. Have a red ring (iris?) around their pupils.

Seems to be a Florida thing. I mentioned that we caught a few B-liners to my dad who fishes pretty regularly and he asked the same thing and I had to explain as well.

Yea that is kind of funny.....I had never heard the name either (lived in FL for 15 years to boot) and within two days between talking to a friend on the phone, this site and another site I heard it used 3 times....was like WTF is a B-Linr????