white street pier is hot! HUGE SNAPPER (long post in detail)

meir c. · 2009-09-22T15:35:46Z

me hammer jimmy and johnny decide to go to the keys we stop at a tackle shop for sabikis and the lady there is preaching to us that boat fishing is better than a bridge blah blah blah land is boring blah blah finally we leave and go to long key and walk tubelures and jimmy who is a little ahead of me walks into a school of crevalles and he gets 2 crevalles and johnny goes into the water with his diving gear and swims into the school of them and spears them we try chasing them around more but no luck so we have our shark bait now we want snapper bait because there are some decent mangroves there so we get dork/dwarf jacks and greenies and put them on ice and make our way to white street pier after we load up we get the big crevalles and cut them in half and casted them out on our shark reels then we go to snapper fish but theyre not there all we get is bonnetheads. later on we run out of water so me and johnny volunteer to go get a gallon from the nearest gas station and while we were gone a school of blacktips came and cleaned all of the baits except my rod and hammer landed 2 5 ft blacktips there were problems with my camera so we couldent take a picture so we just let it swim free because by the time i would get my camera working it would be dead. so later on im sitting down talking to johnny thinking it slowed down and i see hammer using live grunts to try and land snook and i think hmm i want a keeper snook and hammer must know what hes doing let me copy him and hit a sneak attack so i get the sabiki rigged with bait get a grunt and walk him around the pier i walk him around the first corner to the side the rocks are at and walk the grunt to the end of that side and i reel him up and cast him just past the rocks in no more than 3 1/2 ft of water and he gets hit i feel whatever it is take the bait and the rod bends 3 times and i set up whatever it was starts stripping me at leadt 40-50 yards and im thinking i either got a huge snook or a huge tarpon and i slowly bring it in he takes 1 or 2 more short runs and i not saying a word nobody knowing i have a fish on and i get him to the top and i cant make out what it is due to it being dark so i walk it around the second corner where there is a shorter wall and where there is more visibility by this time i shout i got one come help me flip him so johnny comes thinking i have a tarpon and hes coming for no reason and he looks over the rail and flips and goes holy s#!T and starts running to get his lobster net and i shout what is it and i hear crevelle and i think what the... thats no crevalle if anything a grouper while johnny is running away hammer and jimmy are walking towards me and as soon as hammer sees the fish he goes jimmy get that fish grab him by the gills so jimmy flips it over the rail and i thought GROUPER!!! then hammer goes a cubera!! it was huge 32 inches and fat and i flip out with the biggest snapper of my life i couldnt belive it. later on that night we were throwing plugs and jimmy gets a 30 inch snook keeper and then it starts to rain and shortly after we left we went to bud' n' marys to weigh it it was 16 lbs and we notice that it doesnt exactly look like a cubera it looks like a mangrove but none of us can tell so we assume its a cubera/mangrove because its neither it didnt have the stripes of a cubera but it had the teeth of a cubera and the color of a mangrove and johnny says there is a species of snapper that is half and half so i guess its that so if you can tell me which one it is that would help alot and if it is a mangrove i screwed up big time because it couldve been a record and its already filleted so too late. here are the pictures see if you can tell me what it is. on the way home we stop at that tackle shop to prove the lady wrong but she wasnt there i was all smiles after i got it my snapper next to jimmys 30 inch snook 16 lbs 32 inches long and a 22 inch girth in 3 1/2 feet of water belive it or not

Page 2 / 2 Prev

Last Post

RSS

meir c.

(@meir-c)

Reputable Member Registered

haha thanks alot to everyone especially shannon and hammer that means alot coming from you guys thanks for all the compliments guys i cant wait to fish compete in the big hammer challenge with hammer and the phenoms

gino #7419

ReplyQuote

Topic starter Posted : 09/25/2009 3:11 pm

slasherx4

(@slasherx4)

Noble Member Registered

since the day i saw that pier i thought it had a lot of potential. That's a monster snapper from land no matter what he species, keep up the good work.

Just an average fisherman.

ReplyQuote

Posted : 09/25/2009 9:10 pm

FISHMAN

(@fishman)

Estimable Member Registered

very nice cubera

u can tell its not a groves just by the bars it had in the first pic

ReplyQuote

Posted : 09/26/2009 2:02 pm

Page 2 / 2 Prev

Forum Statistics

27 Forums

8,677 Topics

57.4 K Posts

2 Online

59.4 K Members

Latest Post: Welcome Back -its been a while Our newest member: monstersharkman Recent Posts Unread Posts Tags

Forum Icons: Forum contains no unread posts Forum contains unread posts

Topic Icons: Not Replied Replied Active Hot Sticky Unapproved Solved Private Closed