10/11 Offshore Tampa area

[gordo35]

Left out of Fort Desoto ramp around 7:15ish for the first fishing trip on my new ride. Bait was very tough to catch only resulting in 4 Mondo sized Blue Runners in an hour or so.

Decided we had enough(or I did anyway timewise) so we pushed on to the Mexican Pride. Saw one giant Cuda eat one of our giant Hardtails and no other action on our boat or any others after a few drifts. Headed on to a Spring a little past the Pride and marked nothing and no bites in 2 drifts so we moved to the Pipeline in about 110'. Caught several nice sized Mangroves(6-8#) and some Yellowtails around 3# for the box and several more Red Snapper to about 10# to be released. Also had 3 Nurse Sharks about 6-7' long released at the boat and got our asses handed to us by a few other mysteries of the deep.

I didn't take many pics b/c all I have is my phone. Will post tomorrow....

[welder]

Turned into a GREAT day on the water . Were the mystery Fish Grouper maybe ?

[gordo35]

Turned into a GREAT day on the water . Were the mystery Fish Grouper maybe ?

Probably Grouper or more Sharks. Managed to get a few decent Gags up that were almost keepers. We were using pretty light tackle

[welder]

Get back out there with heavier gear and get it on .

[Seahorse1]

Left out of Fort Desoto ramp around 7:15ish for the first fishing trip on my new ride. Bait was very tough to catch only resulting in 4 Mondo sized Blue Runners in an hour or so.

Decided we had enough(or I did anyway timewise) so we pushed on to the Mexican Pride. Saw one giant Cuda eat one of our giant Hardtails and no other action on our boat or any others after a few drifts. Headed on to a Spring a little past the Pride and marked nothing and no bites in 2 drifts so we moved to the Pipeline in about 110'. Caught several nice sized Mangroves(6-8#) and some Yellowtails around 3# for the box and several more Red Snapper to about 10# to be released. Also had 3 Nurse Sharks about 6-7' long released at the boat and got our asses handed to us by a few other mysteries of the deep.

I didn't take many pics b/c all I have is my phone. Will post tomorrow....

[Seahorse1]

Hey bud, it's Mexican Pride one of the "blue holes" in the Gulf? I have a Sportsman magazine that has all the coordinates of at least 8 blue holes in the Gulf, the problem is that some are Loran coordinates and i use a GPSMAP plotter, don't know how to convert them. I was making plans to go to one called Swiss Cheese, some of these holes are up to 180 feet deep.

on your posting, sounds like you guys had a good day.

good luck

Nelson

Bradenton

[crash1371]

And that is why they call it fishing and not always catching. When it comes to mystery fish. But oh what fun