Spring Bottom Fishing Trip out of Northeast Florida: Vermilion Snapper and Sea Bass

It’s the Spring and we are fishing out of Jacksonville Florida for some bottom fish today! We head out to the party grounds, an area about 30 miles offshore, at a wreck called BR. The Vermilion Snapper, or B Liners as they are often called, were biting really well. We started fishing over a sunken barge, but the sharks were bad. We had one come right up under our boat! We moved to ledges marked on our CMOR maps card. Here we caught a lot of snapper. We then moved in about ten miles to some structure in CMOR. Here we found a good bite of Sea Bass. These are more of a winter fish so it was really cool to catch so many of these fish in the spring.
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[@bjschofied1]

I've always wanted to fish BR and I hear it's a great dive spot too. Those were some nice beeliners and sea bass. I wish they had cmor for Garmin 😡. Awesome video!

[@MrCliftonLaird]

dig it

[@ReelHazardous]

Thank you!

[@Stallonesprowash]

I was fishing that same area last weekend. Couldn’t get anything off the bottom without being sharked

[@obbycam9241]

Sweet video! If you don’t mind me asking what were you using for bait?

[@obbycam9241]

Like what type of cut fish

[@ReelHazardous]

I don’t remember what it was exactly that trip. Probably cut up grunt or some chunks of bonito. Those are what we use most frequently if we don’t have squid or a live bait. Hope it helps!

[@baitguru9197]

I don't know what to think, but I have seen video's from other UA-camrs, where they use a magnet above their live bait to keep the sharks from attacking your catch. I was interested in sliding a magnet (or two) down the fishing line if I were to capture a tuna (near the Islamorada hump). Just wanted to ask if you have any input on that idea?

[@jjthurne5206]

We will try that

[@baitguru9197]

@@jjthurne5206 I have seen where they use magnets (with the holes in the middle) as their bottom weight (i don't recommend fishing too close to wrecks, may end up pulling a bunch of rusty steel).

[@trueoutdoorsman]

Was this recently shot?thanks

[@jjthurne5206]

Yes

[@ReelHazardous]

Only a couple of weeks ago

[@trueoutdoorsman]

@@ReelHazardous thanks I was thinking the sea bass are gone now but guess not. Nice video.