Fleet Week - Ocean Halibut

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It’s Fleet week here and the Blue Angels are flying along with a lot of other planes.

We got started at Zero Dark Thirty and picked up live bait in the City.

Then out to the gate fishing:

Fishing a drift on the North Bar (Potato Patch) just past the Point Bonita lighthouse.

One in the box:

 

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Number 2:

Doctor Pearl is on fire. Hot Rod!

 

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Number 4

I got lucky on an 18lber

 

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It’s always fun to see the Blue Angels fly, especially while fishing or hunting. With their home port of NAS Pensacola, they spend the winter practicing along the Alabama coast, I would be on the bay duck hunting and treated to an air show quite often. Makes for a nice way to pass the time when the ducks aren’t flying.

Great fish by the way, we catch a fair number of flounder, the biggest I’ve caught was about 5#, wouldn’t know how to react to a 18# halibut!