Fished south looking for an edge of water with a good temp break we saw on the charts. Found it in 360ft. Went from 75 back down to 70.5 in 2 miles then back up to 74 a mile on the other side. Biggest temp break I’ve ever seen.
Great current, mats of weeds but not a ton of fish. Had it to ourselves but only caught 4 dolphin and missed 2 more. All smallish fish around 10lbs That was over 3 hours and working it hard. Maybe the fish were out deeper.
Came back to the ledge where we marked some bait and picked up two 20lb blackfin and lost a monster hoo boat side. Fish was 70-80lbs and chewed through the fluro we were using for the tuna. That was after a 20 min fight and almost getting spooled on a 50W
The seas laid down for us mid day and had a great tide in.
I saw a 25’ or so CC at Red’s on Shem Creek yesterday evening cleaning dolphin. They were almost finished by the time I got there so couldn’t get a body count but they had a couple of 10#ers on the table and 3 or 4 1-gallon bags stuffed with meat.
It was good to see a local crew getting after it and having success.
We fished the same day on the ledge up north. Water temp was 78 to 76 break. Wahoo bite was off the chain. Probably had 9 bites. All they wanted were mono rigs so you know how that goes…
We got 3 nice hoos, a jumbo blackfin, and a small gaffer. Still not sure where the dolphin are at yet!? Haven’t seen the big class of fish on any reports yet
We fished the same day on the ledge up north. Water temp was 78 to 76 break. Wahoo bite was off the chain. Probably had 9 bites. All they wanted were mono rigs so you know how that goes…
We got 3 nice hoos, a jumbo blackfin, and a small gaffer. Still not sure where the dolphin are at yet!? Haven’t seen the big class of fish on any reports yet
“mr keys”
I use 300/400# mono and guess I’m lucky to never have had a leader failure on a wahoo. The fish would have to hit above the lure…or more than one wahoo…or a near-sighted wahoo.
The dolphin will be up your way soon…they be off Savannah… from my sources. I go when weather permits and not working. Limited choices. Get ready…I believe it will be a quick run:
To each there own I suppose. I’d rather have lots of bites/chances to land them as opposed to just pulling heavy stuff for the sake of it. We were also hoping for tuna so light stuff it was
