Goliath Grouper and more, Cudjoe Key

We ran down to the keys for a quick trip with Captain Scott on the fish monster. We headed out at 6am and got an early start catching bait on the reef (blue runners, yellow tails and some grunt) the plan was to fish a deep wreck and catch a monster.

This was only our second time fishing a deep wreck and boy did the fish make us work. I’ve never battled so hard, pulling up those fish from 200ft was extremely tough and quite a challenge. But one we gladly accepted and won!

The bite started early on the reef, we quickly caught a livewell full of bait, some cero mackerels and some keeper snapper. Then we anchored up on the wreck. As soon as we dropped our baits we were getting nailed, I mean absolutely clobbered by some big fish. After a few tries Krystle pulls up the first one, an amberjack. Then one after another our baits got crushed, finally I hooked up with something huge, we thought the line was caught, no way could something be so heavy. After about 30 minutes of pulling and reeling I finally came up with a real nice sized Goliath grouper. My first.

The rest of the afternoon we spent pulling up one snapper after another, then we slow trolled some live blue runners over the reef and picked up the shark.

It was another great day in paradise. Really I can’t think of anything better than spending the day in Cudjoe Key fishing the reef on the fish monster. Everytime we go down there we catch such great fish.