The hogfish bite has been pretty good this week, we are still seeing them around 30-70 foot of water but lately around 40-50ft has been the best depths. We caught the most this past week on a HUB private fishing charter with some more advanced anglers who came out just to target hogfish and they did very well using a bunch of shrimp, 20-30lb fluorocarbon leader, and 4ot hooks with a 3/4oz knocker rig set up on their spinning rods with 20lb braid and a 4000-5000 series spinning reel. They also caught lots of the lane snapper, a few nice mangrove snapper and then tons of the grey snapper, porgies and a few sea bass too.

The 5 hour half-day trips have been doing well on the fish action as long as the weather has been nice catching mostly grey snapper and porgies with a few seabass on the bottom and the occasional hogfish. Plus, for all our near shore trips the kingfish and occasional mackerel on the trolling rods and flat lines have really added some great action and added bonuses to our trips. The kings have loved the rapala xrap trolling plus size 30 espeically the red head with the white bodies lately and the green 6” trolling spoons behind a #1 or #2 planner. While flat line fishing we are catching a few on the frozen threadfins but mostly they are love the live blue runners or live sardines we are catching with a sabiki rig. You can really dial in on the kingfish by finding some of the bait schools staying near shore and working them with the trolling lures or anchoring up on a near shore wreck chumming up the bait and fish to the boat with flat lines or live baits out the back of the boat into the current or wind.