Monday’s seas were predicted to be two to three feet, and I headed offshore. Fishing about 15 miles out of New Pass, we encountered rough seas—three foot on top of a 3 ½ foot swell. But, we hung in there, and caught nine nice mangrove snapper ranging 12 to 17 inches, keeper lane snapper, and some large grunts and triggerfish. We released gag grouper shorts to 19 inches.
Tuesday brought lots of AM fog, and the winds were still churning up the seas, so we postponed that trip to await better conditions.
With calmer seas on Wednesday, we fished with live shrimp, in 45 feet out of New Pass. We caught our limit of mangrove snapper—twenty of them all about 15 inches. We also caught a 23 ½ inch gag grouper.
By week’s end, another front was on us, with unsafe seas offshore, and high winds everywhere.
The photo shown is of a 34 inch king mackerel, the first king of the season, caught on an offshore trip Christmas Eve.
