Amberjack are still open until end of October and this past weekend was the best amberjack fishing we have seen in a year or more! The weather was very rough and rainy but that didn’t stop our advanced anglers aboard our 44 hour full moon trip from getting out there and tackling plenty of these hard fighting fun to catch amberjack. They have been a little weird lately hanging off the sides of the wrecks or springs and hiding out in the deeper waters. However, we have them dialed in now and were looking forward to the coming months left in this short Amberjack season. Big tackle, big live baits or vertical jigs and big patience and strength are all required to land one of these 40-90lb monster jacks!

We are still catching some nice gag grouper out there in the deeper offshore waters around 200ft of water but they are definitely a little slower than they were around the end of June and early July but the scamp grouper have filled in the gaps for us as we are seeing lots of nice scamp grouper coming in too around these same depths with the live pinfish.

Red grouper are spotty but were finding some fat red grouper out there around 160-200ft of water. Lately we have even been catching a few nice ones at night too which is a little out of the norm, but hey we are happy to see some nice grouper either way. They love longer strips of cut squid wings, live pinfish, and squirrelfish too!

The blackfin tuna are still fairly prolific offshore and the kingfish are mixed in too making it important to have a flat line or pitch rod ready while offshore bottom fishing. The trolling has been slow this week but that is mostly due to the super bumpy conditions we had this past weekend on the 44 hour full moon trip. In the 8-10ft seas the trolling conditions were not optimal but when its calmer the trolling is typically much more active.