Grouper Bite is On in the Keys

[drichitt]

Originally Posted by cletus9000

Pretty fish. Too bad they are not in season: good eats right there. Were you drifting pin fish into patch reefs? Dropping them on deep structure?

Most of these were caught just south of Long Key bridge during an outgoing current using pin fish in 11' of water. It was too windy to get out on the reef so the bridge provided some good blockage from a north wind. I was pretty surprised as we also caught some nice yellowtail, mutton and ballyhoo (which we salted down for trolling the next day). The other day was out on the reef in about 28' using live pin fish and ballyhoo on the bottom. The Keys is an amazing place to fish with so many places to fish, so many different types of fish and so many different ways to fish. Also not a bad place to stay warm in the winter