Capt. Nick Cardella with a fat Bahamian mutton snapper caught on a deep Bahamas ledge on 01/22/12!
Bahamas snapper fishing has been outstanding with the run of good weather and calm seas that we have been having over in the Bahamas. It seems that the best fishing has been around the full and new moon periods, but there are certainly no lack of mutton, yellowtail, cubera, mangrove, yellow eye, blackfin, black, dog, and silver snappers(Margate) feasting on our baits around the Bahamas reef ledges! I tell no lie when I say that we caught every one of these species while fun fishing in a single night last week with cut bait. The snapper fishing has been so good that we have been releasing most of the fish because we have been getting enough to feed half the island in the first ten minutes! The most exciting snapper fishing has been during the mutton bite of course. These mutton snappers, or “mutton fish” as they are called in the Bahamas, have been scooping up any bait we can throw at them in water as shallow as 20 ft! These mutton snappers are averaging around 5 lbs, with fish up to 20 lbs becoming common on some of the deeper Bahamas reef ledges!
Yellowtail snapper fishing has been nothing short of spectacular as well. We like to take our customers to shallow water where we can chum the yellowtail snappers right up to the boat.
"Sometimes the yellowtail snapper are so thick in the Bahamas they will come into 10 ft of water to feed on chum!
The Bahamas yellowtail snapper are not nearly as spooky as their cousins in South Florida, and often the secret to catching the really big Bahamas flag yellowtails requires using large baits that the smaller yellowtails can’t fit in their mouth. The yellowtail snapper fishing is best accomplished by anchoring the boat on a sandy bottom up current of a reef where the chum can drift back and attract the yellowtails. While chumming for these Bahamas yellowtail snappers, it is not uncommon for mangroves and mutton snappers to accumulate a little deeper below the yellowtails. this is the perfect oppurtunity for fly fishermen to catch trophy sized snapper on a fly rod. Snapper fishing with a fly rod in this situation requires a slow retrieve using flies that mimic shrimp or wounded baitfish while being dragged through the current.
Snapper fishing on these Bahamas ledges is unlike anything that can be experienced in the United States! To book your Bahamas snapper fishing trip of a lifetime come to Tilloo Cay in the Abacos and experience the best that the Bahamas has to offer. To inquire about a Bahamas Fishing Vacation package visit BahamasBigGame.com and call me!
Capt. Chris Agardy
561-451-7646
Tilloo Cay, Abacos, Bahamas
BahamasBigGame.com
