Okay so opening week of red snapper season was two weeks ago; I have been a busy man... All I can say is what a week! Well not all I can say but you get the idea. Out of seven days we fished five and rested the other two. Fishing is pretty hard work fun work but work nonetheless. Here is a quick break down of the week.
Monday:
The roomy and I decided we'd take the whole week off thinking that starting Monday morning would mean we'd be one of only a few boats on the water. Apparently everybody else with a boat in the Gulf Coast thought the same thing. So at 4:00 a.m. we fired up the boat and hit the water...
With the rest of the Spanish Armada apparently! This picture doesn't do a whole lot of justice but you get the idea. We caught our bait fish and motored over to a spot we prefished the week before and killed them at. Matt did an awesome job positioning the boat and keeping us on the wreck and off the other boats. We thought it a good omen that within 5 minutes and the first cast Joe lands an amber jack. It was undersized but these reef donkeys put up a great fight and are a fun catch either way. We were catching the hell out of the AJs around 4-1 to the other boats out there that day. But we could not land a snapper. We ended the day with 2 fish. One red snapper and one smaller mingo snapper. 
Tuesday:
Day 2 was a whole lot better. It was a livelier bunch of people which made it fun too. Oh yeah, and we didn't go out at 4:00 a.m. either and that helped a lot. We even took my girlfriend. Luckily, day two had a bunch less boats. So that was nice. We went looking for the fish at a couple of different wrecks and managed to find them all over the place. We sit at a spot for a few minutes and pull a bunch of fish off it then hit up another. After we caught our limit of red snapper we even trolled around to bring some more meat home.
Wednesday:
We woke up on day three to bad weather. So we waited it out for a while and when we thought it was clear we headed out. As it turns out, we did not wait long enough. As soon as we hit the pass the rain started and the rough seas started kicking our asses. We didn't feel like putting up with it for too long so we actually headed back in pretty early. The rain picked up even more on our way in so we stopped at A.J.s for lunch and drinks. Even still, we didn't come home completely empty handed... We still did better than Monday.
Thursday:
Health day...
Friday:
It was just me, Matt, and my girlfriend for day 4. We did very good. The weather was awesome and the fishing was better. We didn't catch our limit, but the fish we caught were donkeys! It was pretty sweet. Unfortunately the seas didn't want to cooperate and the waves were out of control. So it was tough fishing and we called it with a pretty good catch nonetheless.
Saturday:
Saturday was the pinnacle! It was me and Matt of course, but we also brought along my girlfriend and her three friends. So it was a rough day out there. Ha! Mostly calm waves, sunny...it was great! Again, not the best as far as numbers was concerned, but even bigger fish. Courtney reeled in this awesome red grouper, I caught a huge red snapper and my girlfriend landed a lane snapper that we should have had weighed cause it was close to a world record.
Unfortunately I don't have the pictures after Tuesday back just yet. It was a great week. No work tons of fish...it was awesome!
