Sounds like a lot of boats had great days on the water today. The bait, maui’s, and billfish have definitely all arrived. Tons of flyers from 50’ to 1500’. Fished w/ Striker Kevin “The Bruiser” and The New Dr. Leopard. Busy day… Didn’t do much on the ledge for the first two hours… then had a fish spin the reel with tenacity… dumped over 1/2 of a 50W w/ 22lbs of drag in about 20 seconds and then gone… sliced leader… guess it was a shark attack from a decently grown mako… then saw a juvie sail finning and swung the baits on him… AWESOME teaser bite… he windshield wipered the flat 4 times and I more than struck out. Hook apparently got buried in the bait after one of the bites… fed him and came taught all 4 times but nada. Fish was 15-20lbs, very neat little bite. Ran out to the deep and found the weedline offshore of the 226 running inshore/offshore. Maui Wowies were everywhere. Caught 6 or 8 of them on witches w/o bait just for the fun of it. Cedar plug on the flat was on fire. Teaser bite after teaser after teaser bite…
Had 2 more shark attacks and then tried bottom dropping on the ledge for a while. Had two grown bottom dwellers rock us up and break us off. Ended the day with 2 shark attacks, one lost grown sea creature, and 19 keeper Maui’s w/ 4 over 25, biggest 30lbs. The New Dr. Leopard had a lid dropped on his foot and had a keeper hematoma just under the size of a tennis ball… he hung strong but we were a man down for some of the day…
Congrats to those that got the sticks… heard Newt had a few sails and blue marlin by 11. Nice day on the water.