Permit Fishing At Night With A Gulp Shrimp?

There are just some things that don't make any sense at all, one would not be expecting to catch a wily, spooky Permit at night in a busy body of water. Now almost all who target Permit know that the fish frequent the flats in the Florida Keys and their favorite meal is silver dollar sized crabs, so to catch one at night in a channel on an artificial shrimp is completely unthinkable. My guess is that Captain Dave had no idea that such a large game fish would be attracted to his choice of bait, time and location, rather, I believe Snapper or perhaps a Snook was the intended goal. Way to go Dave!

Captain Dave Perkins, a Back Country Guide, here in the Keys (Florida Bay), took a Charter out to catch some shrimp, however, on that night the shrimp were not running as expected. After realizing the shrimping was going to be a bust, Captain Dave put a Gulp shrimp on a hook for one of his clients and low and behold the person hooks up a thirty pound Permit and lands it. Included is a photo courtesy of Dave and "Keysmon" who writes a fishing Blog here in the Keys. http://keysmon.blogspot.com/





Captain Dave Perkins/ 30# Permit