![]() ![]() 3) Wrecks attract bottom fish and forage, so the surrounding areas are great places to hunt for muttons. 2) Always drift parallel to but a safe distance from a wreck to keep from losing fish to break-offs. You want to hit the bottom, bounce a little, and create some noise. 1) Many mutton snapper roam as far as 100 feet away from wrecks and major reef structures. “They like noise,” says Walker, “so we use nice big leads: 8-oz., 10-oz., even up to 12-oz. Mutton snapper are also bottom-dwellers, so you need a heavy weight to get your bait down to them. This is great news because it means that, for once, there’s a fish that won’t actively try to tangle your line up in the structure. ![]() HEAVY, NOISY WEIGHTSĪccording to Walker, muttons like to hang out on the outside of the wreck instead of right on it, and their instinct when you hook them is to shoot out away from the wreck. “Whenever the fishing is good,” says Walker, “as soon as I have 3 dozen to 40 ballyhoo I’m good.” He’ll use a good pair of Nikon binoculars to locate the Tennessee lighthouse for today’s bait. They’ll still throw the cast net and see if they can bring in some more fresh baits before heading to the wreck, of course. “I’ve got some penned-up bait that I’m going to scoop one at a time to avoid damaging them,” he says, “That way we have fresh offerings for the mutton snappers if we can catch any fresh ballyhoo.” ![]() Walker has a pen off the side of his dock where he keeps a healthy group of ballyhoo and is careful when taking them out to put in the live well of his Yellowfin. ![]()
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