We didn’t get much of a reprieve from rough weather, as another front kicked up the winds and seas again by Monday. The whole week was pretty much cancelled out for offshore, until Friday, when I fished in 30 feet out of New Pass. Even then, with seas of 2-3 feet predicted, we had lots of four-footers, and it was pretty sloppy out there. We caught keeper sheepshead, along with a bunch of throw-backs, as well as keeper mangrove and lane snapper. We also caught a mess of grunts, triggerfish and porkfish, and released gag grouper to 20 inches, and a 28 inch cobia, using live shrimp.
Saturday, I fished about 15 miles out of New Pass. We caught nine keeper lane snapper, keeper mangrove snapper, porkfish, and again released gag shorts to 20 inches.
The photo shown is of a 50 pound goliath grouper, released on a recent offshore trip.
