8 hr goliath, red grouper and sharks

The morning started out with some thick inland fog... It was much lighter and patchy once we got outside the pass...Our group of 4 got comfy in the back as we pushed out into the 2-3 ft seas. pulled back the throttles as we got around 110 to hit our first spot... it lit up great, but the fish just did not want to chew...  We managed a few small hits, and one decent sized American red snapper that had to be turned back due to being out of season. 
We bounced to a few more spots and it was much of the same... great shows on the screen, but nothing wanting to chew for us.
We made a couple mile move and it was light a light switch, the bite was on!  We picked up some short red grouper, a couple different species of snapper, and 2 Goliaths- one around 40 lbs and the second well over 100. 
We had a few other good hits that rocked us up.... and then the bite tapered off...

We moved again and the next spot was our money hole.  We fired down baits and were rewarded with 6 plus size red grouper keepers, several of them 30" or better.  High fives all around!  We got several more big hits that rocked us up and broke off, surely some jumbo grouper.

We put down a couple bigger bloody cut baits and we hooked into two different sharks, an estimated 10 ft nurse shark, and a 6 ft sandbar.  
That wrapped up our day and the crew will certainly enjoy some fresh fish for the entire week they are down here!