Jigging Offshore Destin 3/10/09

[blueoceaneyez]

**NOTE: The following videos show my amateur youtube / movie make editing skills, so don't laugh, LOL...

The Gulf was full of "life" today. Man o wars, turtles, weeds scattered about, some of the smallest flying fish I have ever seen! It's nice to see things starting back up out there!!

We started off fishing a wreck in >215', dropping down 240g Katana jigs from BluewaterJigs.com for several hours. Today was the first day of using our new 4' 10" Barefoot rods as well, & wow they make a difference in jigging!!

This wreck was loaded with AJs. One after the other, no monsters but legal sizes were to be had. We didn't keep any though. Scott had a few AJs on & then their bodies would get crashed by sharks. Reel in the line and only a head was on the hooks. (Videos 1 & 2)

FIRST FIGHT OF THE DAY:


FIRST FISH OF THE DAY:


JIGGING VIDEO #1:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-P2QB0iL8k

JIGGING VIDEO #2:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dhGssLy-Nk

We move on to another spot not too far away. We set up to do some bottom bumping. A few minutes into it, Scott yells "THERES A DOLPHIN...<stutter>..<stutter>..NOT FLIPPER, A MAHI!" Sure enough I look over and a 10-15LB Bull went by & we went into a frenzy looking for something quick to throw to it, but it would not take anything. It was pretty heartbreaking, lol.

We gave up and went back to putting lead to the bottom. Up came some pretty 18-20" scamps & 15" Triggers off cut baits.. THEN, Scott jigged some more at this spot & caught a 4-5' shark (video 3). THEN, the chicken dolphins made an appearance & we had an absolute FIELD DAY with them. =D

JIGGING VIDEO #3 - SHARK!! :P --
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gALcXUhMLDY



-Amanda.

[Sea Draggin]

Amanda,
Great job. I will watch the videos when I get home tonight. I'm pretty sure that one dolphin is the rare Pompino dolphin, or closely resembles it anyway.

[Ponce]

Nice report looks like a great day on the water.

[fman]

Excellent work! Looked like a pretty day to be out.

[paul708]

nice report.
good looking fish

[WhiteLakeBuc]

Awesome!

[Sea Draggin]

You can directly embed the videos into your post by doing this...... [youtube] Little series of numbers and letters (1dhGssLy-Nk) [/youtube ]

[Joey Herring]

Nice job!!!!!!

[captdavdavis01]

Pretty work of the feeshes...at least we can live thru someone elses adventures.

Sea Draggin, I thought the exact same thing when saw the dolphin pic. Im pretty sure that is a pompano dolphin. However it could just be the angle of the pic. No matter, bet it tasted just great either way.

Danny

[blueoceaneyez]

I reworked some dolphin pics to get a somewhat better view & came up with these 2 as possible Pomp Dolphin (Im gonna try to attach the pics below).

I went here & compared the reg dolphin vs pomp ones: http://dolphintagging.homestead.com/...nformation.pdf
^ I wish I had of taken notice of the tongue tooth patch.

They were asking for pics in the PDF so I think I'll shoot those 2 their way.. what do ya think?