I missed a good weather day last week due to no crew, so this week I was able to pull a few together, so we cleared the inlet about 5:30 and settled in pointed at the ledge. Zig zagged the ledge for a while with nothing, then came on some kind of floating debris/wood and worked that for a while. Ended up with two nice dolphin off of that and missed probably 3 more. That slowed and we moved on down the ledge and picked up a 25lb wahoo. Picked up a nice triple of AJ’s too.
Switched to bottom fishing and caught some nice b-liners and other bottom dwellers. AJ’s all over the ledge including this one caught on a chicken rig…pretty sure it ate a porgy on the way up.
On our last bottom drop, my son spotted a big fish in the water…he yells “Wahoo”, and sure enough there is a 50lber just circling the boat. I throw some cigars, and the fish just cruises by and eats them. Hooked one on a sea witch and threw it out. The fished sniffed it a few times then took it. I have never seen a fish move as fast at this one did. It went around the back of the boat, then off the bow and I thought we might have a chance as drag was screaming. Then as fast as the fish went away it did a nascar style lap around the boat…then it was over. Total time was probably 10 seconds. I will remember losing that fish for a while, but as fast as it happened could not have done anything different.
Not many pics today but some nice fish in the box.
