Deeper offshore waters continue to produce the best numbers of bigger fish. Our 12 hour extreme hit some depths of 220+ this past week and brought in some of the biggest gag grouper and red snapper we have seen so far this season with a few monster scamp grouper mixed in.

We are seeing similar action on our 39 hour when we are out there past 170-180ft of water. If you want big red snapper, big gags and a good shot at scamp grouper you definitely want to get as deep as possible. However, you can start to find red snapper around 110-130ft but you will struggle to find big fish around those depths and the red snapper are fewer and further between in shallower right now. Our 12 hour day trip on the party boats have struggled to keep up the numbers like our 12 hour extreme and 39 hour trips are producing 2x further in 2x deeper water. The 12 hour party boat trip is fishing around that 110-140ft of water area and some of those trips are catching 30,40 or a few more red snapper but many have come back with 10,20 or 30 red snapper with some nice red grouper, big lanes, porgies, vermillions and other smaller snapper mixed in. The 20lb red snapper and the 30-40lb gags are definitely around 200-250 foot of water in the highest concentrations so shoot for that depth or book a 39 hour or 12 hour extreme with us before red snapper season ends August 2nd at 12:01am.

The pelagic action has slowed a bit, we had lots of sargassum weed around the areas out deep during June which I believe helped bring those plentiful mahi mahi and tuna around the area. Now that the weeds have cleared out a bit we are seeing less mahi mahi but we are still catching occasional tuna and kingfish out there in the deeper offshore waters 150-200ft of water.