I do not usually fish for large amberjacks with live shrimp but things happen. On a beautiful December morning with a flat glassy sea and a bait tank full of live grunts and bluefish, I took a party out eighteen miles to a wreck called the Barge to fish for AJs averaging about 50 lbs. As we approached the wreck, we could see a lot of commotion on the surface. This made my grunts look very small. I told one of the men too throughout a live shrimp to catch a tunny for bait, while I got the rods ready.
Amberjacks are a schooling pelagic, species found in open water or around offshore reefs.
Rated high among the worlds top light-tackle sport fishes. Although the smaller fish are fair table fish, the larger ones are rather coarse.