Thread: Groupers?

I've always been fascinated and somewhat intimidated by a fish that swallows it's prey whole. Pretty sure the Syfy Channel will have a horror movie called "Super Grouper" soon enough. Any Groupers around the Pier? What types? Hear their kinda tasty!

there is grouper the bays, for sure Pensacola..... but not the grouper you are referring too, those I believe are further south....Goliath grouper ....I have seen some good ones caught offshore in the past and yes very tasty....one of my favorite fish to eat Yellow edge grouper ....some sweet meat

Doubt you'll encounter many grouper around the pier but yes they're very tasty, some of the best in my opinion. As far as eating their prey whole, that's pretty common in the GOM.

OK! But I still want to see "Super Grouper"! Might be even better than "Sharknado"!

Originally Posted by BDL1969

OK! But I still want to see "Super Grouper"! Might be even better than "Sharknado"!

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"OK! But I still want to see "Super Grouper"! Might be even better than "Sharknado"!"



Check out some YouTube videos of the Goliath grouper. They don't need to make a scifi movie about it cause it is already a real thing. The full grown jack crevalle that we catch at the pier are a mere snack for them(actually the best bait to use for them).

There was a Goliath grouper that lived on the Whiskey wreck in Gulf Shores it wasn't a 300+# monster but it was still a big fish not sure if its still there I haven't been down to that site in years.

A customer of mine,Pete Zimmerman was an underwater welder for Shell and this is a story he told me several years ago. He and two others were working at the base of a rig in a few hundred feet of water. He was bent over a pice of metal standing on one leg,the other leg was horizontal to the gulf floor. While in this awkward position he thought one of his crew was pulling on his leg to get his attention.Well something didn't seem right and when he quit what he was doing and turned his head around,he almost shit in his wetsuit because a couple hundred pound Warsaw had his leg in it's mouth up to his knee. He zapped the fish with his equipmend and he and his buddies took it to the surface and cleaned it on the rig.

Originally Posted by john g

A customer of mine,Pete Zimmerman was an underwater welder for Shell and this is a story he told me several years ago. He and two others were working at the base of a rig in a few hundred feet of water. He was bent over a pice of metal standing on one leg,the other leg was horizontal to the gulf floor. While in this awkward position he thought one of his crew was pulling on his leg to get his attention.Well something didn't seem right and when he quit what he was doing and turned his head around,he almost shit in his wetsuit because a couple hundred pound Warsaw had his leg in it's mouth up to his knee. He zapped the fish with his equipmend and he and his buddies took it to the surface and cleaned it on the rig.

hahaha

I hear stories like that about the cat fish in the Ohio river, being big enough to eat a man