15miles out of Ft De Soto Central West

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tears143
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15miles out of Ft De Soto Central West

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Was trying to find a new fishing spot, so we headed out of the Ft. First we started off trolling and wasn't doing much good. We then go to a spot on the hotspot map but someone beat us to it. We go past them a bit and then start drifting and landing grunts... Told my friend not to anchor until we get a good fish.. 30mins later we stopped catching any fish at all. We went back to the spot and anchor up. Started chumming a little while we catch grunts. I toss out a flatline with a dead bait on. After a while, I saw the line moving out fast (bail open), I close the bail and the drag started screaming and after a while got a mango snapper in the 16". Then the process continue, until we almost have our limit and it dies out. I didn't expect to fish for mango like you would do for yellow tail down south. An accident of trying to get a mack, king, cobia, etc on a flatline saved the day or we would just be catching grunts.

14 - 20" mango
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caught a few macks as well... largest is 22" to the fork.

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Re: 15miles out of Ft De Soto Central West

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Common way of catching the mangos over there. Chum with cut sardines or summer baits then free line for them. Great report.
Dreaming the dream that one day I can be as good as some of the boatless pros and catch some 12 inch mangrove snapper.

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Re: 15miles out of Ft De Soto Central West

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Nice mess of Grovers. do they have any ice over there on the West Coast :pistols: :pistols:
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You shoulda been here yesterday!!!

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Re: 15miles out of Ft De Soto Central West

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Green Tide wrote:Nice mess of Grovers. do they have any ice over there on the West Coast :pistols: :pistols:
Ice, what's that? Just kidding, we pulled the bagsss of ice out of the cooler to take the picture.

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