For those of us northern guys who have not fished for grouper...it is just like fishing for big tog...you hook em and you have about 10 seconds to get them up off the bottom before they wrap you around something and cut you off..I had a nice 24" gag that I swung and missed at follow the bait to the boat, grab it about half way up and take me back to the bottom...awesome fishing when they are around....that same fish had one of my other hooks still in it's mouth when we netted it,,,