A special trip today with my great clients Mishel and Earl and we trolled up some hefty gags. The seasons still unnecessarily closed, but we wanted to have fun on some hard pulling grouper. With a light SE wind, we made our run offshore to about 20ft of water and the grouper bite was fantastic. The first hook up was very exciting and as Mishel was reeling in her grouper, a huge goliath grouper ate her fish and we lost the battle. We continued on trolling rock pile to rock pile and totaled over 25 gag grouper with the majority of them keepers, while the largest tipping the 18lb mark. Rapala x-raps in the bunker color, were the baits of choice and the gulf water visibility was crystal clear top to bottom. To finish our trip, we made a stop in the creeks, caught a couple red fish and the day was quite a success. I thank you both as always for the great times and look forward to seeing you in a couple weeks. Here's Mishel with the big grouper of the day... Capt. Dan