1st one on livelined snapper this year

[pequa1]

21", and within 50 yards of the waterfront homes again. I had a harder time catching all of two snappers than I did getting the fluke. Hopefully they don't grow too big to liveline too soon ! Conditions were kind of crummy, humid, overcast, with an annoying 5 knot SW breeze, and a lot of weed; lettuce, "adult" slip gut, and eel grass, a regular smorgasboard. Those three fish were my total for the morning and I let the second snapper go, albeit with a hole in front of his dorsal, lol, as it was a pita trying to liveline it, with the keeper over the side on a stringer and the wind and current pushing me too fast once it switched to incoming.

 

[Snapprhead27]

I've always wanted to try live snappers for fluke.

 

[pequa1]

You mean fluke candy. No wasting time on shorts. The snappers must scare the little fluke away ! Been doing this every late summer for years. Might only catch one fish, but it will b dinner 90percent of the time

 

[pequa1]

But sacrificed 8 snappers (while possessing no more than 3 at a time) for not a single fluke this weekend ! All but one were perfect size based on past experience, and as luck would have it, only the largest attracted an attack by a toothy predator. Based on the mangled body and lack of any real weight for a few seconds, it was probably a short fluke or cocktail with an overactive imagination. Ended up letting half of them go albeit with the aforementioned hook hole.