Offshore Bottom Fishing For BIG Grouper & Snapper - SUCCESS!!!

[@leejackson2049]

Nice day on the water 💧 👌, blue skies and blue water no wind can't be beat, Good friends and good times must be nice 👍 Tight Lines to you and Jeff, well done!

[@SCFishTales]

We had a blast!

[@maishair]

Very nice catches.... ❤❤❤❤ love it.... It would be great if you just showed us how you hook up the bait.... 😊

[@SCFishTales]

Yes, ok. I will keep that in mind for the next time I do a video. Thanks for the tip.

[@adamrand-noaafederal1774]

The fish at 3:30 is a snakefish (Trachinocepalus myops) in the same family as lizardfish. Pretty work out there!

[@SCFishTales]

Awesome! Thank you for the clarification. I knew it looked like a lizard but was slightly different.

[@chungseonkim65]

@@SCFishTales It's a sandperch. When used live, you can raise good-sized groupers and snappers.

[@floydtrina770]

that little fish is a mini whale shark😇😇

[@kylestrickland585]

Looked like y'all had an encounter with a nice sandbar shark.... good fight....

[@SCFishTales]

That was my initial thought, sandbar shark. I'll need to study up on my shark species for the future!

[@samkelton5118]

Just a heads up but in south Atlantic federal waters I think you now need a descending device rather than a vent tool. But another awesome video! Love days like that and really hope we have great weather for our two day endangered ARS season!

[@TiqueClarke]

pluck that line like a bass guitar when grouper take you to the rock

[@SCFishTales]

Thanks for the tip! I'll give that a try next time.

[@gustavoserrano]

Awesome day nearshore way to crush it!!! 💥🎣

[@SCFishTales]

Thanks Gus!!! It was a blast. I have another one coming up in a few days just off the jetties. It's a great one too!

[@gustavoserrano]

@@SCFishTales Hell yeah can't wait to see it!!!

[@Anchorbuilder]

A question from a West Coast Fisherman why spinning rigs for bottom fishing? Nice video thanks for sharing.

[@SCFishTales]

Just personal preference on my end. If we see a school of tuna or something on top, I can easily cast to them without changing something up.

[@rjsnook1344]

Nice work gents. Do you mind sharing what depths you were mostly fishing around those live bottoms? Cheers!

[@SCFishTales]

Yeah anywhere from 65-75 foot of water.

[@elijahbl5745]

I haven't caught a black sea bass in a while, all the damn snapper eat them all

[@SCFishTales]

I catch a lot more Black Sea bass closer to shore. Maybe 30-50 feet deep around structure. But they are mostly undersized.

[@elijahbl5745]

@@SCFishTales only one I've caught in the past 5 years was in 8 feet of water on a shark line at a jetty, haven't seen them off the Charleston coast since I was catching stringers of 2 in 45 feet in 2018

[@SCFishTales]

I haven't caught that many either now that I think of it. Red snapper eating them all!

[@elijahbl5745]

@@SCFishTales yeah, red snapper restrictions caused over population in turn is wiping out the black sea bass population I've seen

[@SCFishTales]

@elijahbl5745 I totally agree! Catch WAY more snapper now than BSB.

[@pierce873]

Do you have and tips for some begging offshore/nearshore fishermen in the South Carolina area?

[@SCFishTales]

The easiest was to get on some fish is to find live bottom and drop down a cigar minnow, cut bait, live bait, etc. on a Carolina rig.

[@maggiemcclain9680]

We caught four huge yellow fin tuna today!

[@SCFishTales]

Wow! That's awesome. Certainly a fish on my bucket list!!!

[@calebbrown918]

Great video!

[@SCFishTales]

Thanks for the support!

[@willispautz]

What marina/ launch/ inlet did y’all run out of? I have a 20 ft key west CC I’d like to take out on calm days like this. Relocating to Charleston from Columbia

[@SCFishTales]

We left out from the Charleston Harbor.

[@usasupersoccer]

I didn't know there were sharks in Charleston. You have a really cool channel, great job. Charleston sea is very beautiful, I started to enjoy fishing by watching your videos.

[@SCFishTales]

Sharks everywhere!!!

[@willispautz]

Bro there’s sharks all over the entire fuckin ocean 😂

[@wolfsvision940]

@@willispautz Too many IMO

[@leejackson2049]

Thinking that first Taxman could have been a young 🤔 Thresher Shark.

[@SCFishTales]

I don't think so. They have a very long tail.

[@robertsteele8838]

Is there good fishing out of Morgan river in Beaufort SC ?

[@SCFishTales]

To be honest, I've never fished that area.

[@bitcoinpalmer1174]

what size and kind of boat were yall on?

[@williamafloyd9957]

So sad those red snappers are so "endangered" that we only get two days this weekend to fish for them out of the year and its supposed to be a washing machine. We grouper fish alot but always seem to catch more of those "endagered" snappers. Fun to catch but sure would like to be able to take them home.

[@SCFishTales]

Agreed. We usually catch about 10-15 big snapper every trip out there. And a mess of smaller ones too.

[@ETS-Travel-Adventures]

Hello where were you fishing?

[@SCFishTales]

Out of Charleston. About 80 feet of water.

[@willispautz]

Also looks like a spinner shark to me

[@MRumfelt]

Where did you go out of in SC?

[@SCFishTales]

Are use all the different boat ramps when I go out in my skiff. When I go offshore, I go on my buddy Jeff's boat from James Island.

[@jward9637]

How deep are you guys? Where are you in Florida?

[@SCFishTales]

This was up in Charleston. We were only in 75 foot of water.

[@davidnanney6528]

What's your rod/reel/line setup?

[@SCFishTales]

When I was hugging out there I had a Crowder jigging rod with a Diawa BG 5000 reel and 30lb braid.

[@jorgeferrer7319]

That fish you were wondering about its called lizardfish. No harm to humans

[@robertsteele8838]

Live bottom can you explain please

[@SCFishTales]

Yes, that means there is structure on the bottom that is holding fish.

[@bobreynolds4788]

Looks like a Bull shark

[@connordillon173]

What size reels were yall using

[@SCFishTales]

We were using 5000 and 6000 size reels in this video.

[@clintoutdoors3280]

Nice video I just subscribed to your channel💯 I’d love to do a bottom fishing collab with you

[@CoastalandcrabOF]

How deep?

[@SCFishTales]

We were in 65-75 all day.

[@jonathanwiles1883]

Any possibility I could get the coordinates in an email?

[@SCFishTales]

We were in about 60-70 feet of water if I recall correctly.

[@tracycrosbie9078]

Why can't you keep red snapper past three miles. That sounds goofy.

[@SCFishTales]

Tell me about it. They are everywhere out there. It's just a law in South Carolina that you can't keep them in federal waters.

[@adammatthews2826]

You should be pooping there bladders, I see no tool. Your going to get fined

[@r.b.dickson8825]

6:00 10 pounds... LOL.. Maybe 5 -6

[@SCFishTales]

Haha. 🤷🏻‍♂️