Rough at Wrightsville

[Dave B.]

Saturday, the weather man was dead wrong! Very bumpy...

Managed to limit on red grouper, black sea bass, vermillion snappers, and pinks. Boated trigger fish and a blackfin tuna, released a dozen or so small sharks and tossed back 12 "one inch" short groupers as well. The bottom for us was ok... we've had better days. The crew was pretty uncomfortable and had one chummer and one possible.. with that anchor stuck and the pitchin and rollin,, I guess it just got to them, they felt alot better once we decided to troll.

Managed only one fish (blackfin) on the troll, had 3 knock-downs but no takers. Weeds were spread out and no real solid clumps around to fish. Radio reports from south of us had a bit better luck, but noone wanted to run the 30 miles south in the cross winds and 3-5's to get there, so everyone elected to drift the ledges and slow roll bally's and finger mullets.

Reports of Kings and a 40 lb. sail caught at the WR4 area around 9 a.m., one yellow fin tuna caught NW of the Steeples and some snake kings around the near shore areas.

Other than that,, lot's of chatter of how the weather man got it wrong and boy did he! Other than that.. it was an ok day.