Capt. Billy Neff was at the helm of the Fish Trap and didn’t see the fish that nailed the pinfish trailing behind the boat on the drift line. The captain didn’t really think too much about it when 8-year-old Andrew Quinn, in Gulf Shores on a spring break trip with his family, grabbed the rod and started to crank. Little did Neff realize that 30 minutes later a state record king mackerel would be lying on the deck of the boat, illustrating, as Jack Holmes of the Southern Kingfish Association (SKA) notes, that you don’t have to be a seasoned angler to catch big kings. “We were on a six-hour trip with a family from Michigan, so we went out to the Trysler Grounds about 20 miles out to do some bottom fishing,” Neff said. “We had some drift lines out the back with some live pinfish. We were having a good trip. I think we ...![Salt Water Sportsman]()
