Fished between 130’ and 350’ Sunday. Caught nothing over 250’. The dolphin bite appears to be slowing somewhat. Only caught six. Caught a bonito early on and a small wahoo on the flat when we slowed to put a dolphin in the box. Trolling slowed around 11 for us, so went bottom fishing and managed to pull up three scamps in a fast drift. On one of the drifts we had a dolphin come to the back of the boat and couldn’t get a bait near him in time. On the next drift I freelined a skirted ballyhoo that was left over from trolling earlier about 50’ behind the boat. Had a guy new to offshore on the boat, so I was hoping he’d get to see a dolphin come up and hit the bait right at the back of the boat. After about five minutes of drifting, the rod goes down and we boated a nice sailfish. Jerms did an excellent job of leadering and filleting…opps I meant releasing the fish back into the ocean. Revived her for about ten minutes until Jerms couldn’t hold on to her anymore and she swam away strong (Thanks to Greg90210’s billfishing release technique seminar extravaganza on CharlestonFishing last week). Also caught some other asorted bottom dwellers: AJs (which Jerms kept one of and filleted one to try. I will post reports if he dies from a rare marine parasite infestion), some sharks, a remora, some triggers, the usually suspects.
All in all, a great day on the water for us. The ride home sucked. There was no 12 second swell. Waited for it all day and never got it. Wind picked up at 3 and made for a very wet ride home even with the curtains up. Saw quite a few dolphin free jumping and tons of scattered weeks in around comanchee area.
Lies, all lies!
First bonito
First celebrity caught dolphin…(think Mythbusters)
I am not sure if you finished reading the Releasing Sailfish…FYI thread, but I found some information stating it was against NMFS federal law to remove a sailfish from the water if your intent was to release it. Regardless of whether or not you like Greg, I would do some more research on the issue myself. Just don’t want anymore arguments over the issue…or people getting themselves into trouble.
A couple of those scamps are undersized…I would delete the dock picture before the man sees it and tracks you down.
The 2X6 dock boards definately give it away, and they are 2x6…if they were caught in deep water then they would have died anyway so who cares if you kept them, but the man will bust your *ss and he does check this site.
I am not sure if you finished reading the Releasing Sailfish…FYI thread, but I found some information stating it was against NMFS federal law to remove a sailfish from the water if your intent was to release it. Regardless of whether or not you like Greg, I would do some more research on the issue myself. Just don’t want anymore arguments over the issue…or people getting themselves into trouble.
I am not sure if you finished reading the Releasing Sailfish…FYI thread, but I found some information stating it was against NMFS federal law to remove a sailfish from the water if your intent was to release it. Regardless of whether or not you like Greg, I would do some more research on the issue myself. Just don’t want anymore arguments over the issue…or people getting themselves into trouble.
A couple of those scamps are undersized…I would delete the dock picture before the man sees it and tracks you down.
The 2X6 dock boards definately give it away, and they are 2x6…if they were caught in deep water then they would have died anyway so who cares if you kept them, but the man will bust your *ss and he does check this site.
We measure our fish. Always.
Send the picture to DNR please. Tell them someone you know on the internet caught undersize grouper and needs to be stopped right away. Do it and report your results here.
Thanks for another good time out in the blue, even though the weatherman got it wrong. My first wahoo (catch) and first time seeing a sailfish!
On another note, looks like some people have had their eyes calibrated to weigh fish over the internet, and some calibrated to measure them. Must be an expensive procedure.
Last night I lay in bed looking up at the stars in the sky and I thought to myself, where the heck is the ceiling?
I am not sure if you finished reading the Releasing Sailfish…FYI thread, but I found some information stating it was against NMFS federal law to remove a sailfish from the water if your intent was to release it.
It was decent all day until about two when the wind picked up. We had a quartering sea coming at us stacked up about three seconds apart. Not much we could do other than slow down and get wet. Waves weren’t big, just on top of each other and the wind kept spray on the boat for the whole ride home.
What a sad, sad state of affairs. you have a good day & get your brains beat out on the ride home - yet you’re good enough to share some photos with us. Then some ice hole comes along & berates your catch. They should take Jocylen Elders advise from the Clinton Admin. & just wank it. Come to think of it Bill should have taken that advise himself. Those look like 1" X 8" boards to me. Thanks for the great photos.
