Just when I thought I was finished with offshore fishing, John M. invites me out to slow troll for king fish and I couldn't help myself ... so I said I'd go. We headed out in his boat with every intention of getting some live pogies and slow trolling or drifting over the 70 foot reefs. We picked up enough bait to fill both tanks just south of the cocoa beach pier and headed to where we planned on trolling. Once we made the hour or so run NE we got to our spot and saw what appeared to be really good action on the bottom so we quickly adapted and dropped some pogies to the sure death. GOOD CALL!!!!! We had a FULL day of CATCHING. We all had a great day and we were able to get a good mixture of fish in the box. I caught a personal best 10.5 pound red snapper. I also was able to bring up a really nice 8 pound flounder. John M. caught a "just short" gag grouper, that was tough to through back, and Bill P. caught some good flounder himself, along with get the winning cast on the cobia that I spotted on the way back to port. I think we ended the trip with-
15- Black seabass
3- Flounder
1- Trigger
1- Cobia
1- Octopus
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