Offshore Fishing Report!
Monday, April 18, 2011 at 10:01AM We fished long time friends/co-workers Tom and Damon yesterday aboard the BNM. First thing in the morning Damon asked me if I thought he had a shot at a sailfish. I said "there's a few around still, but not like in the winter time, but you never know." So we catch plenty of pilchards on the way out, and then head offshore. We start catching blackfin tuna's, some real nice ones up to 28 lbs. Damon gets a bite, and up comes a sailfish! But No! He jumps on, we lost him. Damon saw the fish he wanted to catch, but it didn't last long. We start catching a few more tunas, a dozen total, but Damon hooks one last fish. It starts acting a little different, and next thing you know, its a big Atlantic Sailfish jumping all over the ocean. After a 20 minute fight, Damon catches and releases his first sailfish! Congrats! We then caught an amberjack about 30 lbs and headed back towards shore. We stopped on a couple of wrecks, catching a couple of bonito, and also caught and released a nice Gag Grouper about 18 lbs. It was a great day for a FLORIDA FISHING CHARTER!
Most of the other boats had tuna as well, and I saw the Fearless and Predator both had a handful of mahi mahi. Any day now the Mahi fishing should start being consistent.
Reader Comments