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Haemulon plumierii
How to catch White grunt
White grunt feed in 64–86°F water and bite best at 70–82°F. Fish Scouter's season calendar follows them in 3 waters; in October they are at their peak in The Golden Isles, The Lowcountry, The Southern Outer Banks & Cape Fear.
8 pts · trophy at 14"Feeds 64–86°FBest 70–82°FIn season nowArtificial reefWreckLedge / hard bottom
About
Grits and grunts: the fish of the Gulf reef dinner. Blue-striped head, a grunt in the boat, and a fillet worth more than its reputation. Everywhere there is hard bottom.
How to fish it
Anything on a small hook over hard bottom. The bigger ones — the ones the old men call 'Key West grunts' — are in the deeper water.
What it eats
squidshrimpcut bait
Live bait for it
SquidStrips on a bottom rig for snapper, grunts and porgies; whole on a deep-drop rig.
Live shrimpUnder a popping cork or free-lined, hooked under the horn on a #1 to 2/0 circle hook; on a jig head for the bottom. The universal inshore bait.What to fish it with
the sizes that fish itLeader30–60 lb fluorocarbon
Hook2/0–7/0
Braid30–65 lb
The rule
not confirmed hereNo size limit; general bag limit — confirm at MyFWC.
The current rule →Where it is, month by month
PPeakSSpawningAArriving·AroundLLeaving
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