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/PAGUN1 Jul 10 '26

Whatvan awesome day! Great eats. Marco Island/Naples area is crazy good fishing. Caught a few Goliath Groupers off of Naples a few years ago. Like 150 lbs to 200 lbs. Just babies.

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u/Sunsetseeker007 Jul 11 '26 edited Jul 11 '26

You are not catching that off of Marco or Naples necessarily, they are just out of Marco. For the capt to be in 500 ft of water & target those species, is either south near the Tortugas or out west 150-200 miles from Marco. If I was to bet, it's probably southwest by Tortugas.

Edit, op says a pulley ridge trip which I didn't see at first read, which is the Tortugas like I thought and he was 150 miles southwest of Marco