Dump and East

[G.jones]

Figured we would sneak in a quick day trip before the blow. Started down on the SE corner of the dump in a nice 72 to 74.5 degree break of nice blue water. Set the spread and started pot hoping, only problem was that they were pulling and checking all the flyers in the area, so it was a little difficult to say the least to find a flyer with fish on it. After about 3 hours with not even a sniff we decided to head east and look for the other break. About half way to my new numbers we stumbled uon a dragger that had just dicarded all his bycatch and we had about a mile of scraps on top of the water loaded with blue dogs. The guy i was with had never caught a shark before so we spent an hour catching a releasing 3 blues on spinning gear. So we finally arrive at the new numbers set the spread and start pot hopping again. Within 5 minutes we hit a weed line and about a 4 foot wahoo spooks and shoots off at a 100 miles an hour. We finally find a string of pots that are loaded with mahi, we make a couple of passes and double up and i decide that is probably just easier to pull the spread and cast at these fish. so out comes the spinning gear and we continue to bail mahi after mahi on every cast. We probably ended up catching 50 or so on light tackle and stuck a few in the cooler for dinner. At this point its getting late in the day and we need to start heading north, so the spread goes out and i point the boat to the north and start trolling. we ended up with 2 more mahi on hoo's and that was it. We trolled thru big schools of bait showers marked some good schools of fish further north which i assume were the little bft people have been catching out there but no love. All in all a great weather day with seas FAC, fishing could have been better but great to be out there. Hopefully th hurricane stirs the pot a little and pushes some more fish north.

[SaltyDog]

I find the mahi get finicky quick on spinning rods after catching a few. What was your trick to get them to keep biting?

[G.jones]

Salty, we were catching them on ballyhoo chunks. I would just give them enough chum to get them into a frenzy but not enough to satisfy. After about a half hour of chumming we were able to switch over to metals and get the job done. The fish on one of the flyers did shut off so we switched flyers but were able to come back to the original one about a half hour later and they turned on again.

[Tight]

Keep one in the water on the rod swimming around. Must keep the rest of the school curious and competative. It works, no bullshit.

[G.jones]

Tight, Your right it does work. We did that to the first one we hooked and that's how I was able to get them going crazy on the ballyhoo chunks.