5-22-12 Offshore Fishing Report from the last few days

Lots of boats have been fishing the past few days and there's been some great catches. The dolphin (mahi) were a little tough today, a few boats did well but some boats struggled. The days prior the dolphin were very good, lots of boats limiting out of schoolies and a few gaffers. Hopefully today was just a slow day and it picks back up tomorrow. The Daytime Swordfish bite was good today, but a little slow yesterday. The Catch 22 caught the only broadbill swordfish yesterday out of 3 boats dropping from the marina, but today both the Catch 22 and the BNM caught swordfish. The Catch 22 caught a beautiful 303 lber and released a juvenile. The BNM caught a 65 lber. The Kalex also released an est. 175 lb blue marlin which is always an unusual bonus. There's been a few wahoo on the dock the last 3 days too. The King Mackerel bite was great for a few days and slowed a little bit today. The Fearless had a big mutton snapper while wreck fishing yesterday. With the re opening of the deep water fishery (bottom fishing over 240'), there's been some nice blueline tilefish, snowy grouper, and the BNM caught a giant 34 lb yellowedge grouper the other day! When the dolphin fishing gets slow it's always another option to catch some great eating fish, just a lot of cranking since its 400 - 600 feet deep typically.