Our day started on the dark side as in no “Nav Lights”. Bad switch, hard wired to them terminal and we were underway at 5:30.
Trolled the Ledge in 66 degree water and no takers on the hoo. Decided to push out in search of warmer waters and found it at 350 feet. Nice color change, couple of rips and 73.5 degrees with plenty of flyers. This equaled Dolphin madness for the next couple of hours. We put 26 in the boat, threw one back that was on the small side. At one point when bringing in a phin we had about 30 dolphin follow him in behind the boat. We pitched baits to several. The crew did great job keeping up.
We took several Mahi near 30 pounds. Most were in the 12 to 18 pound range. Bite closed down at about 1130 and we only took couple after that. Ran back in at 30 plus. Awesome day, can’t wait for round II.
Awesome day Parrish, but come on, You and Brad know I’m stuck in the desert, I NEED PICTURES. Its bad enough I wasn’t able to go, so if you or Brad can, Throw me a bone and let me see what I missed out on. Great job, wish I could have been there, sounds like y’all had a fantastic day…Pete
Good day! Sounds a lot like ours. I think we were all on the same rip.
N 2 DEEP
2550 Bluewater 200 Etecs
“If you worry about what might have been, or what could be, you overlook what is.”
sounds like the whole fleet was on the same rip. Glad all you guys got out there and crushed them. Had a friend who does not post here also get around 20 fish on that rip. Thank god he is giving me some for dinner.
I will try to post a couple a pics when I get home tonight.
BW2150
You’re right on the common theme and I think I may even know why. Dolphin, due to their phenomenal growth rate are prolific eaters that cycle between near surface and deeper water foraging (down to 300 plus feet). My guess is as they are such a tight schooling fish they tend cycle about the same time. Hence the bite (at the surface) effectively appears to be “turned off.”
One thing I told guys yesterday, was to keep the lines in the water as much as possible when the bite was on. Worry about the other stuff within reason to after the bite slowed.
