I’ve not been here in town much lately, which has limited my chances to get out on the water to fish for some dolphin. However, the stars aligned yesterday and I was able to get out with Jessie May who is also my kids soccer coach, and as it turns out, turning into a family friend.
We left the hill about 4:15. Drove out to The Ledge. Saw NOTHING until we hit about 150’ of water. Not a weed, not a flyer, nothing. In fact, flyers were pretty scarce for us all day. But we got lines in by 6:45, and had our first two fish on by 7:30. First knock down, and brought that fish in. As she was being de-hooked, the one line we still had out in the water started singing! A fun surprise. The action was good in this one spot, picked up two more, but dealing with the scattered weeds was becoming too much. It seems all the weeds and rips ran perpendicular to our line of travel between The Ledge and SWB. We couldn’t find a well put together “line” either. There were a few that we close, and allowed us to troll along side of them for a bit, but only for a while. We trolled up towards the SW Banks, picked up a couple more on the way, again, dealing with weeds most of the way.
We found all kinds of debris during the troll. 55 gallon drums, one of which had a Blue Marlin swimming around it! Couldn’t get him to look at our spread, though. We saw trees, graduation party balloons, and all sorts of “stuff,” NONE of which produced fish for us.
Finally hit the SW Banks, trolled around in the clear water for a bit, and had a knock down, followed by another. Pulled in a nice cow and a bull. Both about 20 pounds at first guess. The bull ran! He torn off a bunch of line, and made an exciting time for reeling him in.
We then went back in, hit Y73 to maybe pull up a few bottom fish. Nothing really there on the bottom, but we did catch the fattest b-liner I’ve ever seen there. Also, there was all manner of life in the water column. Spades, Cobia, Cuda, Remora’s, and so on. Those were two of the biggest, fat
