Left Remleys around 6pm Wednesday with 40inchreds, Capps, Broski, Ken and Trey. 40inchreds is still the only person who has never missed an offshore trip in the new boat. First trip offshore in January was when I first met him from this site so I’d say he’s a clutch asset to have as a fishing partner!! Headed to the Garden and Y-73 to spend the night. Left there at 5am Thursday and put lines in @ SW banks. Put the Dump in the GPS but in 550’ found nasty rip and big weedline. Game On!!! We had it all to ourselves until the sporties who were well off noticed action and once one came then so did the rest of the fleet. After 11:30 the bite slowed and we couldn’t seem to get anything in the boat. From siezed up reels to thick weeds one way or another we just couldn’t stay hooked up. Finished with 12 dolphin biggest being 27lbs. A limit of B-liners. Half dozen maybe BSB and 2 biggest Grunts I’ve ever seen. Biggest 3.5lbs. Also caught a nice (eyeball weight) 10-15lb ARS and a 5-6 ounce grouper . I’m tired as hell and will post pics tomorrow.
Attached is a video filmed by Trey. His first attempt at such video with a new GoPro. Enjoy!!
First thanks Mike for letting me tag along again and definitely one of my favorite trips I’ve ever done, Thursday was a insanely nice day on the ocean water, sky, air temp, and good fishing with good people. The rip and the weed line he mentioned was awesome we followed it for about ten miles picking dolphin off here and there and spotting many of dolphin swimming the weeds which resulted in a few catches but we saw a ton of dolphin mostly smaller ones. When the big dolphin got to the boat he had a school of large dolphin a little smaller than him with him I think about 5 but maybe 7 were with him, but we didn’t have anything they wanted ready so no takers on casting to them. I had them inspect a buck tail and free lined cigar minnow but they didn’t want it, I forgot my box of jigs and arties, lessoned learned. At one point I saw a school off dolphin in the rip/weeds that looked like a green ball. One of the dolphin I caught was on the outrigger and I saw it come up and start finning right behind it and got the rod out the holder right as it was hitting which was a little cooler than just hearing the drag go off and grabbing it. We had hits on all colors of Capt. Ed rigs and the best action seemed between 500 and 799 we pushed out to like 1200 to see if we could find some more weeds or another rip when the first one fell apart and had a short strike twice on one bait but it didn’t leave any teeth marks so I am not sure what it was. It was really flat all over except for a small area in 1200 had some bigger swells but than it went back to even flatter water to were it was glassy enough to see the clouds reflect. Great time as always and dolphin is my favorite fish to eat for sure now but a fried snapper sandwich is delicious.
Thanks for the pro tip but we do the drop back and leave the lines out and keep trolling when we hook one up, the second of the two hits was on the drop back, we had several fish come from the drop back or keep trolling technique. We were only lacking in the pitching to followers because we had several fish follow fish up to the boat but were unable to hook one that way. If anyone has any pointers or secrets of the trade please tell, I’m always trying to improve my techniques.
Good job and awesome video! Let me know how your Edisto trip turns out. I’m going for a week long trip to Edisto starting 6/18. I will PM you and let you know how we done and provide some coordinates on our trip. Again, great job and talk soon.
. I’m tired as hell and will post pics tomorrow.
