Self righting rc boat

[Will Gilmore]

You can buy RC bait boats, this one suppose to have quarter mile range and a remotely deploying bait release.

That looks exactly like what fallguy is describing.

When I was a kid, we called those hooks grouper grabbers because once it hooked a grouper, they didn't get away. The hooks stopped showing up and when I'd asked after them, I was told they had been banned.

-Will

 

[fallguy]

I’m kinda thinking casting an anchor line and then finding a device to crawl the line.

I watched a review of rc boats and the dig is they just roll sideways in any big surf.

 

[rberrey]

Between wind and surf most days at your location it will be challenging to get bait out 1000 ft unless the winds at your back , offer to pay a surfer if one walks by is a good option . From memory there were 5 bars , sharks from the 1st bar out . The jetties go 9/10th of a mile out , back in the 80s I watched a man pull up a large groper up on the inside of the pass no more that 100 yards on the jetties . I don't know if he got him out of the water , he was walking him down when I left , my last trip to mustang island . Jetties are slippery and easy to loose tackle , long walk off with a large fish .

 

[fallguy]

I was wading and casting as far as I could.

good payoff 20 pounder