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I had Jimmy and his son Kevin down from NY for a day of fishing. The weather did not allow us to go to the stream so we stayed inshore bottom fishing. Started at 20 miles with no action moved out and got into a OK grouper bite. Kevin caught his 1st gag grouper 12 lbs. Then we had a Cobia come by the boat but not interested in a bait. The bite slowed so we moved offshore 10 miles and anchored on a ledge. Kevin had the 1st bait down and immediately hooked up to a nice 15 lb Gag. Jimmy then hooked up a landed/released a 12 lb American Red Snapper. We spent the next few hours catching kings, Pinkys, Grunts,Grouper and many many Sea Bass (for the season to be closed due to the lack of the species there seems to be plenty of Sea Bass around). Jimmy also landed a 7 foot shark on light tackle. Caught a couple scamps on jigs.

Captain Mike Jackson
LiveLine Charters
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Had Paul, Al and Steve come down from West Virginia for a full day of fishing. We started with live bait at 20 miles and had a few AJs 1st thing but they all broke us off in the wrecks. We did caught a nice Gag. Did some slow trolling for kings and had 3 hook ups but all came unhooked. Moved off shore another 10 miles and got into a great grouper bite. We limited out in some fat gag grouper. Then Steve fought something different and when I saw it coming to the top I went for the gaff and landed a 25 lb Cobia. Ended the day slow trolling for kings. Al fought a nice fish all the way to the boat and at the last second a shark took 1/2 the fish. Sorry forgot the camera.

Captain Mike Jackson
LiveLine Charters
910-686-7271
“WHO’S READY FOR MORE PAIN”