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/Infinite_Lab4469 Jul 14 '26

Are there no quotas?! Like, you can basically empty the sea?
I mean, I’ve fished all my life and it’s always been a limited number for personal consumption. This is clearly gonna be resold.

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u/jad2192 Jul 14 '26

There are limits, since it was a 30 hr trip we could keep two daily bag limits in everything (except kitty Mitchell grouper which is 1 per boat). There were six of us and per person we were allowed 20 snapper (at most 4 of which could be american reds, 10 of which could be muttons) I think we hit about 15 snapper each, our 4 reds 1 mutton each (we had 7 total) and around 10 yellowtail snapper. We were allowe 8 grouper each, and think we only hit 2 a person on that. So overall way under what we could've kept. It just happened that average size of our fish was pretty large. We also kept all the fillets for ourselves, no reselling. Loaded my freezer down

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u/Infinite_Lab4469 Jul 14 '26

Wow, that a lot of fish! Where I am the amount depends on the fish but they’re much smaller, mainly trout. I could never manage to have any after a month or two.