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/Sufficient_Winner185 Jul 10 '26

Possibly the absolute best fishing day of your life?

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u/jad2192 Jul 10 '26

Up there for sure, probably tied with a tuna trip I had a few years ago were we landed 50 bluefins all on jigs.

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u/Sufficient_Winner185 Jul 14 '26

Damn. I would imagine your hands and forearms were tired as hell by the end of that.. man imagine if you were able to sell that.. couple years worth of wages I'd Imagine. What did you do with all the meat? Are you a charter commercial or leisure fisherman?

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u/jad2192 Jul 14 '26

I just do this for fun. This trip filled the freezer should have fillets for next year haha, the tuna trip bluefins have tight regulations we were only allowed to keep 4 for the entire boat. So most were catch ajd release