Topsail Angler's Fishing Blog

King Grouper

Friday, October 31, 2008

It was chilly this morning but I hadn’t fished in 2 weeks and only once in the past four. Very unusual for me so I was determined to go today. We left the dock at about 8:30 after melting the ice off the boat (it was 29 degrees this morning). We were headed for 23 mile rock but stopped short of there after marking some bait.

We trolled for about an hour catching some kings and a fat albert, then got an engine alarm so we stopped trolling. Couldn’t find anything wrong with the engine. While we waited we put a few grouper in the boat. Even though the motor was running fine we decided not to chance it and headed home.

Finally tally was 3 kings, 3 gag groupers and one FA (kept for future bait).