Page 7 - Palm City Spotlight - July '22

Palm City Spotlight, Page 7
Treasure Coast Outdoors

Mutton Snapper Rigs And My favorite is a rig consisting of a 2- to 4-ounce egg the spot on the depth finder. This paid off on one trip, as
sinker, with a 30-foot leader. I attach the egg sinker above
I caught four muttons in one small spot.
Required State Reef Angler Permit the swivel and use a small plastic bead between the egg This also helped when I hooked a grouper. It went into
sinker and the swivel. Since muttons are wary of strange a hole or wrapped the line around something. By being
By Jim Weix noises, my thinking is that the plastic bead eliminates any able to return to the same spot and trying from different
Most anglers have noise of the egg sinker hitting the swivel. angles, I finally was able to get him off the bottom.
their own favorite way of I then use a 40-pound fluorocarbon leader and a size Just a reminder: Anyone who intends to fish for or
fishing for mutton snapper. 7 or 8 hook. Some anglers claim longer leaders are even harvest reef fish from a private vessel in Florida is required
A friend of mine, who is better. My only issue with the longer leader is that fish, to obtain the State Reef Fish Angler designation. It costs
very successful catching big particularly grouper, have extra time to swim around nothing and is designed to help the FWC get a better idea
muttons, uses a big chunk of before I know that a fish is on. of how many people are targeting reef fish like snapper
fresh bonito and lets it sit on My preference for bait is live bait, but headless and grouper and what they are seeing and harvesting on
the bottom. You will see the sardines hooked through the tail can also work well. My the water. Sign up online at GoOutdoorsFlorida.com or
tip constantly bouncing as only issue with dead bait is that I get a lot of little nibblers anywhere you can purchase a Florida fishing license.
little fish nibble away at it. chewing it up. Editor’s note: Jim Weix is an avid hunter, angler,
Then suddenly the rod will I have a few favorite spots, but for the most part, I will conservationist, as well as an outdoor writer. Jim is
bow. He claims that the little fish nibbling on the chunk just drift a reef in 60 to 90 feet of water, with the sinker included in the Wisconsin Waterfowl Association’s Hall
of bonito attracts the large muttons, as well as grouper. slightly off the bottom. Once I hook a fish, I quickly mark of Fame, for his work in helping restore thousands of
acres of wetlands. Jim is a broker associate with The
BE A PART OF SOMETHING FRESH! Keyes Company. He can be reached at (772) 341-2941
or by email: jimweix@jimweix.com.
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