40 Mile Reds. Georgia Style! - Part-1

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We all have that tendency to whine a little when someone says, "It's a 40 mile run, but the fish ought to be there".Well, let me take all the doubts out of making that long run decision.If bottom fishing is your game,the Red Snapper is biting as good as last year,if not a little better.

The opportunity arose for me to make the long run in comfort to do some bottom fishing.So,I decided to load up on the "Hoss Fly",a 30-ft.Topaz Captained by Rick Stallard.Once again, I was off to the 40-mile ledge southeast of the Georgia Coast.My favorite place to fish on our small, but fertile 100 - mile coastline.

A pleasant surprise awaited us in 70 feet.of water on the journey east.From the tower of the "Hoss Fly",we watched birds swoop and dive at the water from a mile away. When we got close, the answer was clear.The bait marked up in textbook form on the CVS 106 bottom machine.We knew the bait was not going to be a problem after that marking!Goggle Eyes by the thousands swarmed with the structure along with sardines the length of an unsharpened pencil.

We heard tale of some very large Boston Mackerel in the area, but ...
... our Sabiki's boasted only Goggles and Sardines.I did not see that as a problem.  The size of the baits we caught was plenty big enough to get my adrenaline pumping,and after about 60 baits were in the well,we headed east another 20 miles.

As we approached the holy numbers,we talked of how good the fishing has been,and how good it BETTER be today! Capt. Matt Amie and I retired our beanbags and began making bottom rigs. Within a few short minutes,we had 6 rigs ready to send down as we idled slowly up to the number I had programmed in the GPS. We were ready.We all stared at the CVS 106 waiting for the bottom to blow up on the screen.

Finally, after several passes, there she was.That beautiful,bright colored marking rising high off the bottom and pointing sharply into the current. Rick screamed for the crew to "Send ‘em!" I just watched on the first go-round to see the brutal "butt whipping'"get put on some of our crew members who had never caught a Red Snapper.I watched eagerly as the 16 ounce weight peeled line off the Tidewater GOLD 30 Reels as they carried the live Sardines to the bottom.

The crew quickly slammed the levers on the reels to strike,and I instructed them to make 3 full reels off the bottom to prevent any hang up on the structure.It was about 5 seconds, and the screaming and feet shuffling began!There's nothing quite like hearing the screams of a happy Angler hooked up with a BIG fish and the Captain on the Radio in the background telling his partners "We are Tripled Up!"

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