Keys Bottom Banging
With the largest living reef in its backyard, the Florida Keys has some of the best grouper habitat and fishing in the world. Even with the moderate angling pressure the Keys receives, the success of Keys “bottom bangers” continues to keep coolers heavy and back muscles strained to their limits. I took my shiny new outfit and free-lined a big pinfish into the deep blue until I felt the 6.oz weight hit bottom, then slowly reeled up a few turns of line to suspend the weight off

