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Great Day on the water today. I boarded my friend's 26 Pathfinder at 8 am and headed to Pensacola Pass. We stopped by a bait boat and loaded up with 80 live cigar minnows/scad, some for today and some to have ready for an offshore trip tomorrow. We went to our spot in 80 feet about 2 miles directly off Pensacola Beach. First fish was a 20# snap on a white spro-type bucktail sweetened with a dead cig. My friend fished slip lead with live cigar minnows. The bite was a bit slow but in 3 hours we limited out and lucked into two cobia. Me and my jig caught all the fish except the small snapper. The hook on the 4 ounce buck tail caused me to lose two fish, not stout enough... one cobia and one bottom dweller. Some one mentioned weak hooks on the spro's in a recent post.
I was super happy with my gear today, a result of reading posts by those with more experience than me. I used an Ocea Jigger 2000NRPG and a Super Tornado 558UL - spiral PE 1.5 - 4. I picked up the reel from Tony on this site. He could not recall what the line is but it looks about 50. (Thanks again Tony) It handled all those fish just fine and the light rod made the fights super fun - mostly point and crank style. I am leaving it home tomorrow and bringing the OJ 4000 Synit 250g to fish the 180ft plus of the 'edge'.
I was super happy with my gear today, a result of reading posts by those with more experience than me. I used an Ocea Jigger 2000NRPG and a Super Tornado 558UL - spiral PE 1.5 - 4. I picked up the reel from Tony on this site. He could not recall what the line is but it looks about 50. (Thanks again Tony) It handled all those fish just fine and the light rod made the fights super fun - mostly point and crank style. I am leaving it home tomorrow and bringing the OJ 4000 Synit 250g to fish the 180ft plus of the 'edge'.