3 generations getting in on the fun!

Had 3 generations of fisherman on board, with Father, Uncle, son and grandson on board.  Davids son Jeremy, our youngest angler on board at 9 yrs old was ready for a great day of fishing.  We met up at the docks at the bokeelia boat ramp at 630 but delayed our departure for a bit as we had a crazy amount of patchy fog. We pushed off the dock at the first sign of daylight and made our way out thru Boca Grande pass. We tryed the bouys for bait, but it was non existent.  The hot zone for bait was the 50 ft zone with lots of spanish sardines, pinfish and a handful of blue runners coming aboard.  We pushed on out to our first stop in about 80 feet with a bunch of lane and vermillion snapper coming up.  Jeremy was first on the board with a solid 23" grouper caught on a whole squid. 
After a few non productive drifts, we pushed on out a little further.  We stopped in about 100 feet where we added another legal size grouper to the box.  The fish were there but just not chewing real consistent the first part of the day.  We bounced around to a few more areas where we continued to catch snapper and a few short red grouper, but nothing for the box.  Made the call to run out to an area just shy of 110 ft and it was game on.  We boxed another 6 keeper red grouper ranging from 21-26 inches. A handful of beautiful AMerican Red Snapper were caught, along with 4 Gag Grouper that also had to be released.  A doormat size trigger fish was landed (also released). We switcghed up gears and managed a few more snapper, along with a beautiful mangrove snapper that went over 20".  Weather layed down to 2 ft or less for our ride home. Lots of meat for these boys and a trip Im sure young Jeremy will remember for a long time. ​