The scamp grouper and red grouper bite was insane mid-week this past week ahead of the big cold front that came through today. They were really excited as that big front approached and the start of the full moon probably helped to make them more aggressive as well. We limited out on red grouper on the HUB twelve hour private charter this past Wednesday with a few tuna, scamp and some nice mangrove snapper mixed in.

The Wednesday twelve hour extreme caught tons of red grouper, a few nice scamp, some big mangroves, yellow eye snapper and of course lots of red snapper we had to catch and release. The 39 hour this past weekend and the 39 hour this past Tuesday both did well on nice mangrove snapper, yellowtail snapper, porgies, big vermillion, some nice scamp and red grouper too. Plus, we had kingfish and a few tuna come up during the trips on trollers, flat lines and vertical jigs too.

The Tuesday 39 hour had a kingfish that was probably close to 60lbs bite a knocker rig set up with a small chunk of threadfin and Will McClure our first mate who had him hooked was only using 40lb test and a 5ot circle hook and was able to get this beast of a king to the surface only to break off while trying to get a gaff hook into him to get the fish into the boat. It was an epic battle and a monster kingfish. Most of the pelagic action is around 150ft or deeper lately but anywhere offshore right now the kingfish are pretty prolific and ready to fire off. Red grouper and scamp seem to be biting best around 170-200 foot of water and mangroves anywhere deeper than 130ft of water this past week. All our trips are fishing a little deeper right now to take advantage of the great grouper bite and huge vermillion snapper we have been catching plenty as of late!