They don’t eat better than mahi, no sir. Live bait or smelly bait or oily bait or bacon or shrimp. They eat most everything. When i was a youngin and ran trot lines with my uncle on the lakes a handful of times, we used ivory soap. True story. The cats would eat the soap but the turtles would leave it alone. Go figure.
Smaller ones taste better of course. If all you want is a fish fry filler, go get you some farm raised fillets. They’re hard to beat.
If you want a trophy picture, there are some monsters lurking around for sure. Big baits at night in the usual spots. I just wouldn’t eat anything over 20-25lbs these days. No reason to. Others might disagree, but to me they don’t taste near as good.
Fishing is better at night, but there’s a lot of dumb things that can happen on the boat at night, and not necessarily by you. You know this, i know this, we all know this, and yet dumb stuff still happens.