On Saturday February 2, I went out fishing with Captain Dane Karcher. With the temperature to reach a high of 71 degrees and winds out of the east around 5 knots, we headed out of John’s Pass. The water temperature was about 66 degrees on the surface.
We fished a couple different spots along the same ledge in 35 to 40 feet of water. The temperature quickly warmed up to 70 degrees as the winds and waves calmed. Unfortunately, due to the cold front that had come through a few days before, the water was not very clear. We could only see a few feet below the surface.
We brought light tackle and live shrimp in the hopes of catching some elusive hogfish. We caught plenty of gray snapper along with a few porgies and one keeper sea bass. Unfortunately, we never hooked a hogfish, but we did drop some squid heads down on medium spinner rods and caught five or six red grouper and three gag groupers. With the grouper being out of season, though, we had to throw them back in.
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