If you would have told me that we would fish in May at the best spots and not even have a knock down I would have told you that you were crazy. Took my 5 year old on his first offshore trip knowing he would come back with his first Mahi. The rougher than expected ride out persuaded us to put the wahoo spread out in 150ft. Nothing so pushed out to 1500ft where friends caught 27 Mahi the day before. Nothing for 4hrs so pushed further south and again nothing. Went to the ledge and found a weedline and still nothing. Trolled the ledge for a chance at a wahoo and still nothing. Saw one billfish deep in the am lots of fliers scattered weeds but nothing else exciting for the day. Sounded like most boats had the same luck. Still an awesome day on the water. If I knew what was going to happen before I went I would still do it all over again.
We slowly churned out to Bubble Rock from Georgetown. Missed having lines in at first light due to getting there at 20knts, but ended up with 9 in the box. Lost 3 at the boat and had a ton of knockdowns with mangled ballyhoo. Most were caught once the wind slacked and we found some weeds (800’-850’ temp 76). The daisy chain with blue and white teasers, blue/silver/white skirt, and ballyhoo was HOT. We also had luck with a Grn/orange smoker/bubbler. Sorry your boy didn’t get his first catch.
1973 22ft Mako CC
Thanks for the report. We thought north but hard to ignore good reports south the day before. Glad you caught some fish.