35 miles Offshore SHOCKED It Happened Again!

We are here at Joe Bayou's boat ramp in Dest, Florida. We're getting ready to launch the sea hunt. Uh it's just about 100% done with its makeover, but we're going to go ahead and go out again today and uh we're going to do a little distance today. We're going to go out 30 35 miles, do some deep dropping, do some trolling. Hopefully some blue water's pushing. Maybe we can get into uh something special today. But, uh, Michelle's coming with us today and Brock, so this will be Michelle's first long long trip out on the boat. So, uh, we made sure and brought her special throne, the bean bag. So, uh, we're going to get started and, uh, we'll see you guys on the water. So, first things first, we had to stop and catch some live bait. We wanted to fill the live well up. Oh, wow. All right. Good job, hun. Here. Here. Swing it over. Get them over the boat, honey. Lift your rod up. There you go. That way we don't lose them if they fall off. These are cigar minnows. Everything eats cigar minnows. I was all the way on the bottom. These are fatties. So, lucky for us today, there was no trouble finding the bait. Few more stringers like that. Yeah, they're good. Now they're back behind us. All right, guys. We got filled up on bait. I don't know. We probably got 50 60 baits in there. So, we're going to batten down the hatches and head out. Get started fishing. Your throne is ready. Even fluffed it up for you. Here. No, we got a weed patch here. Could be some mahi. We're almost here. So, just a couple miles out of the pass, we came across a nice weed patch and decided to see if there was anything hanging out under it. Come on. First of the year, baby. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Not a big one, but very cool. First mahi. Dang. Oh, there's a ton of them. Look at them all. Oh my gosh. Oh, that's We'll keep that. That's not a bad one. It's not a monster, but you got anything rigged up? Got that siki off. Quit bleeding everywhere. Um, you got Is there like black bag? There's leader. All there we go again. Uh there's leader in the Look on the rod holders. Oh, this a bit better one. Look at them all. Michelle, you see them? Yeah. No, not any bigger. Oh, that might smaller. That one was smaller. Yeah, but he fought harder. It's There you go then. Yeah, there you go. Yeah, you don't have Oh, there you go. Why? When he's pulling line, don't. You got a good one. Don't Don't reel while it's pulling line. When you hear that now, reel now. Reel now. But when you hear the When you hear that noise, don't reel. Okay. Oh, that's a bigger one. Oh, yeah. Oh, look how beautiful they are. Did it get off? Yep. Oh my gosh. Oh, he hit it on top. There you go. There you go. Nice and steady. Oh, got a jumper. Keep rolling. You can come up here if you want. This was Michelle's real first trip offshore, so obviously this was her first shot at a mahi. She'd never caught one before. Oh, what a pretty one. Got him. Michelle's first mahi. Good job, hun. All right, hold that pole out. There you go. Wasn't expecting that, were we? No. Oh, there they are. They're They're all underneath us. Oh, yeah. They're Where are they? Oh, got him. I got more of those spoons in there, Brock. I think I can flip this one. Honey, just stay back. That one's probably too little. What in the what? How did he do that? Oh, now I see. Jeez. What? Look what he did to me. Oh. Oh, I thought that was in your finger. No. Got them. Oh, so I dropped the jig down to see if there are any big ones hanging out underneath the school. I'll just put one of those on then. You know where these mahi? You need Oh, dang. Oh, they're hitting the mahi are hitting my jig. There's a bunch of them down there. Got them on the jig. Mah on the jig. Do you have your own water? No. There we go. That one's too small. Ow. God dang it. Trying to grab them. Oh, yeah. Good idea. There we go. Come up out right here. Here they come. Got them on the jig. Little guy. These colors though are amazing on these. Look how blue that one is. Why? Uh probably cuz they're slloshing around so hard in the live well. All right, let's let him come up. I can feel them hitting it. Ah, that one ain't coming loose. Oh, yeah. That'll be easy to unhook. There you go. All right, I'm good. I think we got enough mahi. What do you think? I think so. I don't want to clean a bunch of those. All right, guys. We just caught a bunch of little chicken dolphin. We kept about eight or nine. Make some sandwiches, but uh we're going to head on out to the reef spot. I want. So after we got out there and dropped, my first drop did not go the way I wanted. What? No. Cut me. Damn. All the way up. Hope it wasn't a shark. Really? We were hoping that wasn't a shark because this is one of our favorite grouper spots. And if a shark's there, then we're just going to have to pack up and leave. Wow. Nice. Hey, scamp sir. Get that off of there. This hook off of there like that. Okay. And then make sure you're not tangled on the end. Okay. Okay. Then you pull this down. Keep it You got to keep a thumb to keep it from backlashing. Okay. Now you just let it go down all the way down. Yep. It's going to You're going to use 3/4 of the line. I like those kind of Oh yeah. A little squirrel fish. So Michelle had seen a slow pitch jig in videos before and she wanted to give it a try. So while she was doing that, I decided to drop some live baits down and see what we could catch. There we go. Got one. Okay. Do I need one? No, you're good. Yeah. This is feeling scampy. Not a big one. All right. Second drop. I'll take it. Did yours start floating up? Yeah. I thought it was a lot smaller than it was. A good size. Yeah, this rod's pretty stout. That's a deep size on any scamp. Oh, now he's fighting a little bit. Maybe it's not a scamp. I bet it's Yep. Oh, yeah. There you go. Very nice. Very nice. Good job on this baby squirrel fish, huh? Yep. What kind of leader? 50. Yeah. You even have the squirrel fish back. Yeah. All right, guys. First first scamp today. What is that about? That's probably 20 inches. Let's just get a measurement on them while we got them here to the fork, right? No, total. Oh, total. 19 and a half. You're pretty dang close. All right, guys. We're going to drop this dead cigar minnow down and see if we can get a big grouper with it. No, it's a little one. Well, maybe not. They like start floating up and then you think it's not big and then No, he's not that big. Oh, it just got bigger. All right, come on. Keep coming. That takes a while from 400 almost 400 ft down. The Shimano twos two-speed, you don't have to pump and whine. You just sit here and winch them up nice and easy. Oh, he's decent. Not a monster, but not bad. Yeah. All right, guys. That's a nice one. Good eating size. I was hoping for bigger, but beggars can't be choosers. I'll take it. That's pretty good box already. Jeez. See what I got put up with. I don't blame her. The accusations and Yep. I love the boat. Mhm. I think it's the perfect boat for us. Oh, Boston mackerel. Oh, yeah. You're about to popped. Hey, we'll catch Let's catch two right here. Two more and then we'll go over there and drop right where we caught the big ones cuz they're still 100 foot from where the big Okay. So, just keep your thumb on there. You tuck that under your shoulder. That that side though. Yeah. You go. Let me get by you. That might actually be easier for you than uh jigging. You got a long ways to go. That 80 lb line takes a while to get down there. That's what we had a fish. You feel something on there? Mhm. You only got like 380 ft to go. There you go. You can kind of keep it. There you go. I think it was in its mouth and it was just swimming off with it. There you go. Here. Hold on. Let me Now reel. Is that easier? There you go. I got you. I'll put it in low gear. Whoa. What does Michelle have? I got color. I got a big grouper. I don't know what. Scamp or gag? Scamp. You need the gaff. Yeah, I need Okay, you got it, honey. Okay. Snag. Oh, watch out. Watch out. I got it. Okay, there you go. It was just I had that one hooked. Wow. You okay? Thank you, Sean. Yep. There you go. You're doing all right. Hold on. Okay. There. Rest that rod right on your knee. Oh, dang. Dang. Come on, Michelle. You want to grab the gaff? Yeah. Where's it at? It's right up front. Don't worry. Come on, Michelle. It's worth it. This is a good one, man. Awesome. Yeah, this one's back. Look, it's scoping out. It's a big grouper. Come on. It's in low gear, too. You got this. I don't know. My phone is Come on. Be Be a freaking monster. I know when you start seeing it. went away. You're getting close. You're getting real close. Oh, yeah. He's There he is. I see him. Look out. Oh my god. Big boy. Oh my god. Oh, stop rolling. Look at that. Wow. The floor with that one. Holy cow. Scamp dillywampus. All right. Reel over your rod tip a little bit. Yep. There you go. We need to get both our pictures with that one. I'll admit you're impressed with that one. Oh, yeah. That's a good one. Dang. Good job. That was Sorry, it's about to fall. See how long that sucker is. I bet he's 27. 20 30. Yep. 30. 31. Look at that. Here. Nope. 30. Nice, dude. Good job. Now that some muscle. All right. The best way to hold them is kept them under the belly like this. Right here and just kind of hold them out like that here. Lean in towards Brock. Michelle. Okay. There you go. All right. Michelle's first scamp versus the Lawless Tides. Smallest scamp ever. I guess we'll drop here one more time.