Deep Dropping after Hurricane Irma | Fishing

It's been 2 weeks since hurricane Irma hit the Florida keys when I went on this fishing trip. This is another deep dropping fishing trip with my buddies Lee and Mark.
***The fishing equipment I'm using in my videos***

*Electric Reel/Rod*
Diawa Tanacom 1000 Electric Reel - http://amzn.to/2yKguCG
Daiwa Saltiga Deep Drop Rod - http://amzn.to/2zJAQPB
Daiwa Saltiga Boat Braided Line - http://amzn.to/2hE01g9

*Verticle Jigging Reel/Rod*
Reel SpinFisher V6500 - http://amzn.to/2zNaASu
SSV3080S66 Fast Action Rod - http://amzn.to/2zLPEeG

*Trolling Reel/Rod* (i love love love the shimano tld25, have 2)
Shimano TLD25 - http://amzn.to/2zLyvla
Star Rod - http://amzn.to/2yKepq5

*Inshore/Patchreef Reels* (all rods are just regular stocks)
SPINFISHER V4500 - http://amzn.to/2hD4tf2
Penn Batttle II 3000 - http://amzn.to/2ik8GkQ
Penn Fierce II - http://amzn.to/2zKLFBf

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***Other gear/stuff I use and would recommend to my viewers***
My Chum holder - http://amzn.to/2ANecE5
My life jacket - http://amzn.to/2yKyPzt
My Simrad touchscreen GPS/Sonar Fish finder - http://amzn.to/2jvfPSO
My knife sharpening stone - http://amzn.to/2z6jugU
My favorite lure inshore and even offshore (use just 1 big J hook when using offshore) - http://amzn.to/2yK6pp6
Big arsh dive flag for cheap - http://amzn.to/2zMPSCs

***My boat is a 236cc Key Largo Center Console w/ a 200HP Mercury Saltwater Series.
***They no longer make these boats and she's a classic forever and ever.

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In this video:
Our main goal was to deep drop for tilefish and maybe some big snapper but we get something else instead! Overall this was a great fishing trip and I had tons of fun as always with my friends.

Before we start fishing I show some of the destruction on my way down to Summerland Key. While I was driving Lee had to drive all the way to Key West in order to get gas for the boat. Lee's house was destroyed and the water went up almost 3 feet inside his room so pretty much everything was destroyed.

We start the fishing trip by trying to cast net bait, without any luck we run out to about 90ft where we find some great bait for deep dropping. I caught a kingfish which turned out to be some yummy bait for the Rosies we end up catching.

After catching bait and some other fish we run further offshore to 600+ feet deep water. We drop our first baits down on a 5lb lead weight. It doesn't take long before we get our first bite. Turns out to be a Rosie. A Rosie is actually from the scorpion fish species and taste great. They have a very flavorful white meat and I highly recommend you try them!

Rosies are actually Blackbelly Rose Fish. But we just call them Rosies. They are awesome fish!
After our fishing trip we cook up 2 of the fish on the grill and they were amazing. At the end of the video we cook up 2 of the fish. It's a catch and cook, but I didn't show any part of preparing the fish so I didn't title this one a catch n cook. But basically we just scaled it, gutted it, put 2 slits in the meat to help it cook on both sides of each fish and then threw it whole on the grill.

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