3/14 Had B Cartilege out todaBrian and his Dad made it down to give our fishing a whack. Great guys. Don't let Brians age sway your opinions he's very knowledgabe and what he doesn't know he's quick to learn.
We hit a southwest breze which really shuts our fish down. I sarted with live gogs and worked 90-290' without a bite then finally had a sail come up and proceede to maul a bait. Crushing it like a grape without eating it and swam away.
Minutes later we had something hammer us and cut the leader.
It was a terrible slow pace and we put her on the troll to the south but no takers. Even my favorite cuda hole was dried up. A tiny bonito committed suicide and again it got quiet. We worked fifteen miles of edge with live baits again and had another sail up that hammered the flat line but never found the steel.
We saw turtles, and free jumper sails and even a huge bust that may have been a monster yellowfin that we get here from time to time.
A while later we ran another 7 miles and tried our luck with kings. The ones we found were too small for our live baits really but we let a little 3 pounder go.
I slid over a wreck again 10 miles further away a=in hopes of something good. We had a bait get ponded and a rather long fight produced what was easily the biggest cuda I had seen all year. Nice 30lb class snaggle toothed sea trout to end the day. Again great guys and hope to have them back very soon!
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3/15
Not a heck of a lot better today. Had a regular customer from Canada, Frog and his three tadpole sons. Used our live baits from yesterday to start. A couple kings made short work of them so we put it on the troll. Popped a small mahi and lost another. As I was headed back to where we had them bite the rigger went down. I was in the towere and looked back no fish there, then here came a nice blue marlin doing the big zig zag behind the other rigger. I was just sure it was gonna pile on the bait but instead it just went away.
Weeds got thick and they wanted a shark so I hit a wreck for them. Wham the bite was on! Dumpped my 50w about 2/3 down then turned and got us hung on the wereck after about a half hour... Had a second fish do that to us tooo.
Went back on the trroll and had what I thought was a sail knock down the rigger. He threw a round fin up and it was time to play with the antichrist white. Three clean shots before bowing up and a hundred yard run. Doink the the stick stood straight . Back inside we played with more cuda and kept one for tomorrows shark bait...
While I was marlin fishing yesterday I was paying close attnetion. Up between Juno and Jupiter the commercials and a lot of pee wee boats were banging the tiny rats I was getting the day before. Littl 2-4 lb stuff. About 1 O'clock the bite turned on off that beach I told you about before about half way between the end of the condos and the fancy low white houses in 70-80' there were some real pigs being boxed. Even guys that do it regularly were impressed with some of the fish. Didn't get final weights but some of the guys were talking about hitting the scales when they got home just to see how big. I'm guessing in the 50's or maybe even 60 when they get sounding like that.
Weathered in here today. Supposed to go to 30kts...
Nice reports Deep, and your making me jealous down there. Keep up the reports cause it sure sounds great and puts me in a far far away land during these winter months. Glad you got into some nice fish despite hot sticking any bill''s. Good luck on the rest of the trip!
I'll be back at it tomorrow gotta see if I can keep my St. Pattys day marlin streak going... Since 1980 I have had 18 Marlin (mixed species) on the 17th...
Gorgeous;ong half day. Cool and a nice swell. Trolled a sail and four mahi all along the edge. Slid out into deep water and had a bite. Line smoked off and I was sure it was something good. Long hard fight. Finally the fish popped up top and I got a good look. Big skipjack... Oh well still a nice day...
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Used our live baits from yesterday to start. A couple kings made short work of them so we put it on the troll. Popped a small mahi and lost another. As I was headed back to where we had them bite the rigger went down. I was in the towere and looked back no fish there, then here came a nice blue marlin doing the big zig zag behind the other rigger. I was just sure it was gonna pile on the bait but instead it just went away.
. Back inside we played with more cuda and kept one for tomorrows shark bait...
. Did land stuff and started Bahamas final prep...
