I think one word can describe the past week of fishing and trying to book the boat the old fashioned way, hustlin' and slingin'. Between a crappy economy, west winds, and a bad moon, trips and the dolphin bite have all but shut down. Guys runnin' up to 35 miles looking for fish (which is way out for here in Islamorada) and pulling every trick in the book for just one bite. Right now, you are either finding the fish and putting some nice ones in the box or you get the skunk.
We've taken to purging every single bad juju and omen from the boat : absolutely no bananas, whistling, fruit of the loom underwear (see:bananas), etc. Luckily the blackfin tuna bite has finally lit up on the afternoon outgoing tide at the famed Islamorada hump and they've saved the day on more than one occasion. But winds of change are filtering in (literally). After a week of westerly breezes that shut down the bite, a solid 10 kt SE breeze has come ashore, the moon is waning, and a few sailfish have decided to show up and add some extra excitement to the ride. Stay tuned and I'll try to keep you up to date on how the fishing is going.
My dad a charter captain born and raised in Islamorada says to me today, "i have never seen so few south atlantic frog cod in my life!" i laughed. But really these days of absolutly no smaller fish to fill the coolers and cover the spikes are terrible. over the weekend with the east wind seems like more numbers hitting the dock but not like most other july's on record.
will they be back?
are they going to show next year?
where would the go?
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