Decided to fish deep to take a chance at a billfish. Our chance came at 10am when we hooked up for about 5mins before the hooked pulled. Had the head and bill come out of the water before it dumped a bunch of line and then was gone. Saw a Sail free jumping couple of hours later but no luck. Beautiful day on the ocean, wishing we had more of those a couple of months ago. Still grateful to have been able to fish and get home safe. Hope others did better.
We ran out Saturday to try the bottom. Started very slow other than aj’s. Lost 15 rigs to some large stuff, I’m guessing aj’s. I think I need some heavier rigs. After moving around for several hours we finally found some nice vermillio, bsb’s, grunts, and a couple of ars. We had a school of dolphin cruise by about 20 feet down but they were gone before we could get a bait to them. Also a lot of 5 lb or so spades but we did not fish for them.
Olde Man Charters
It’s bottom fishing time till mid September.