Headed down to see our buddy John (Procrastinator ), with his brother Jimmy, John, and Rich , for a fun captains trips to target some deep water jig fish.Weather man was WAY off with the forcasted 2-3 foot swells with a 10 knot wind.50 miles out it was blowing a solid 25 with solid stacked 5-6 footers with an occasional 8 thrown in.Made for way less than perfect conditions as we were flying trying to deep drift bucktails and jigs for grouper, amberjacks, and trigger fish.Between the 5 knot current and the wind it took alot of lead to even bounce the jig on the bottom for twenty to thirty foot.Got to try my new Daiwa Saltist series jigging rod matched with a Daiwa Saltist LD 40, made for easy pulling these fish up off the bottomFighting these fish from 200 foot plus on our jigging equipment was def a blast, and has me wanting to get back down there on a more favorable day.quick report with more pics to be added as many dif cameras were used, and im beat after driving through the night to get home.John worked super hard to get us on productive pieces and was able to get us into some nice fish.A bunch were dropped halfway up as they were getting drug like kites from the fast drift.Had one big red grouper almost to the boat to have a BIG shark take one bite . losing half the fish in the blink of an eye.
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