The 39 hour fishing really improved this week for us at Hubbard’s Marina, we had quite the epic trip this past Tuesday with Capt Joe Drew! They only had 21 fisherman on the boat and they all nearly limited out on mangrove snapper, vermillion snapper and they had plenty of porgies and yellowtail snapper too. Plus, they had a good amount of fat red grouper as well.
The HUGE kingfish were very plentiful on the rapala Xrap trollers too but one nearly 50lbs got eaten at the back of the boat by a monster mako shark that had to be over 10ft reported Capt Joe. The other kingfish barely escaped the big shark with one having some battle wounds to prove it’s hard fought tug of war with the monster fast swimming shark. We didn’t see the blackfin tuna this recent trip or any scamp since we were fishing shallower water up in the grounds. However, it was great to see the red grouper and mangrove snapper bite was improving so well inside the grounds in the shallower waters since the waters are warming up and fish have started to move!
For a more in-depth fishing report from Capt Joe and First Mate Will McClure and see the bountiful catch from Tuesday’s 39 hour trip, check out the video:
