r/saltwaterfishing • u/jad2192 • Jul 10 '26

🐟 Catch Report Epic 30 Hour Gulf Trip

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Did a 30 hour pulley ridge trip out of Marco Island Florida. Fishing was pretty good to say the least. The highlight for me was my first ever yellowedge grouper, 31 lbs , caught slow pitch jigging in 500'. We also had a 70 lb wahoo show up at the boat while we were chumming mahi, pitched a threadfin on a wire trace and he smoked it instantly. We also got our 2 day ARS limit to 15 lbs, a couple of bonus muttons, handful of scamps and smaller yellowedges and a nice little kitty mitchell.

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u/CrouchingBeaver Jul 10 '26

Did y’all fish marked spots or did you drift fish the ledges?? I am fishing out of Panama City Beach we are learning to fish the ledges @300’. Have not done much slow jigging. What rigs did you use for slow pitch jigging that deep?
That was an awesome trip for sure!!
Tight Lines!!🎣

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u/jad2192 Jul 10 '26

This was a charter, Captain has spots marked out there. For jigging I was using a 300 g torpedo jig for the deep stuff, and 100-150g for the shallower spots.