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Amberjack Opens this weekend
Posted on 7/30/15 at 6:32 am
Posted on 7/30/15 at 6:32 am
At what depth can you start seeing amberjack at? Any other species start showing up at the same depth. Looking to make a trip Sunday.
Also, has anyone been stopped by the law out of fourchon/grand isle lately checking for the endangered redsnapper? and was it Feds or State?
Also, has anyone been stopped by the law out of fourchon/grand isle lately checking for the endangered redsnapper? and was it Feds or State?
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Posted on 7/30/15 at 6:46 am to Elusiveporpi
I've seen them at < 100' rigs a few times. It can be hit or miss though
I'd suggest 150'+
I'd suggest 150'+
Posted on 7/30/15 at 7:36 am to mylsuhat
150 is what i was thinking as well. Should I fish higher in the water column for them? or on the bottom?
Posted on 7/30/15 at 9:34 am to Elusiveporpi
I would start mid water column with jigs and or live bait and starting at 150 ft water depth is solid advice. Hooking up to a decent amberjack will definitely separate the men from the boys them bastards fight with a vengeance. I wouldn't be surprised to find more endangered red snapper than amberjack at most rigs.
Posted on 7/30/15 at 9:37 am to mylsuhat
Is it still one per person @ 30" or did it go to the proposed 34"? I am hoping to get out there and catch some soon as well. The wife has me going to the beach this weekend though 
Posted on 7/30/15 at 10:59 am to bayoudude
Im not sure on the size limit is, but I've boated some 80+ ones and your right, man they fight. They just didn't taste worth a dam to me. I hear the smaller ones cook alot better.
Posted on 7/30/15 at 11:00 am to Elusiveporpi
I love them on the grill but they were smaller like 30-40 or so. Never ate a large one
Posted on 7/30/15 at 1:07 pm to NOLAGT
Same here as I have never caught an AJ over about 35 lbs. The ones I have had were great cut into steaks and grilled.
Posted on 7/30/15 at 1:07 pm to mylsuhat
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I'd suggest 150'+
That's about where we start finding them out of Freeport. Do better catching them on structure like a wreck, than at the rigs. What's kind of odd is that they will sometime stack up further up the water column though. I guess to make room for the endangered Red Snapper below them. We have caught them at like 50' to 75' which means that you don't get the benefit of them slacking off with their air bladder expanding coming up.
At that depth, 1 AJ is all I want to frick with.
Posted on 7/30/15 at 1:15 pm to bayoudude
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I wouldn't be surprised to find more endangered red snapper than amberjack at most rigs.
Keeping them off your hook will be tougher than finding AJs. I would head to deeper water for just this reason.
Posted on 7/30/15 at 3:07 pm to MWP
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I suggest to make room for the endangered Red Snapper below them.
I like the way you think.
And thats a good point about the wrecks instead of rigs, that way the reds dont have structure high in the water column where the jack's like to stay.
I remember fishing in about 300+ and we caught a 20" blue runner, backed up to the rig, sent him down for 35 seconds with 24 oz of lead, wait about 15 seconds, hook a AJ, and pin the boat in forward to pull the fish out. But that was with some serious equipment that JJ Tabor had. Let the boat do the fighting.
Its totally different when you go out there with stand up equipment and your own less than nice gear
Posted on 7/30/15 at 3:12 pm to Elusiveporpi
quote:if you just want some AJ for meat and a fun fight. Tie on a diamond jig, let it sink 120' or so and get at it. Shouldn't take long. But make sure someone is on the controls to pull yall from the rig
150 is what i was thinking as well. Should I fish higher in the water column for them? or on the bottom?
ETA: This will help you not have to deal with the red snapper as much
ETA2: Snapper are usually lower in the water column (to start out) than AJ
This post was edited on 7/30/15 at 3:14 pm
Posted on 7/30/15 at 3:22 pm to mylsuhat
Hell during the one weekend of fed snapper season them bastards were so thick that the snapper were blowing up the surface. Caught all my snapper on an anteater butterfly jig. THis was in the South Timb. 160 block 130 feet of water.
Posted on 7/30/15 at 3:25 pm to Elusiveporpi
try using hard tail with the tail still on. i've always caught bigger AJ's this way. cutting the tail off seems to get more snapper bites.
Posted on 7/30/15 at 3:41 pm to mack the knife
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try using hard tail with the tail still on. i've always caught bigger AJ's this way. cutting the tail off seems to get more snapper bites.
And use the biggest hardtail you can find. The tuna-size hardtails are snacks for 15# snapper. I go for the 20-24" hardtails if I can catch them.
Posted on 7/30/15 at 3:51 pm to The Last Coco
If a snapper eats one of the baits I'm dropping down Saturday, she's getting a ride back to pirates cove
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