After four days of playing games with my props,Putting my name on the transom, adding lifting smart rails and painting little green pseudo baitfish silouhettes on the bottom, I finally went back out today. The radio was dead quiet and a southwesterly breeze showing no promise of pushing fish into the edge had me slip off shore. We found blackfins chasing flying fish in 590' but no takers. We found some broken weed at 735' and started to pick mahi. What was relieving to me was how many we had playing in the teasers and eating my close in baits.
I guess at the bottom job was drawing them a bit closer and at least not scaring them. We boxed three. With Curt not wanting any for the table and me still trying to empty my freeze for the big run to the Bahamas. We began releasing and tallied maybe eight or nine more before the wind came up. We slid back inside and caught a cuda which we sent back out for shark bait but he drowned before being eaten. In all a fair day.
3/8 Was a different game all together. Despite 25-30kts roaring the people still wanted to fish for something. So we sat in Lake Worth on the hook, burnt a couple blocks of chum and put together a decent catch of spanish and a couple small mutton snapper.
3/9 Weather kept us in today. Cold and rainy... Wanted to get on with a couple projects but couldn't even do them because it was too wet for my power tools...
Been practicing the dance... Stops people in their tracks . I'm blaming the weather on Jersey peopel this is part of their weather system and they aren't keeping it pulled in tight on them...
3/10 Cold as could be today. Bumpy and breezy too. Loads of flyers and good looking water. Managed a sail and three small mahi before the people turned green and started "laughing" at the fish...
Ken,
I have a seat or two for April 4-8th. If this one fellow doesnt get his check to me quick I'm going to re open one of a couple late dates 20-24 or 25-29... Right now they have two legs booked but a $1000 deposit for both isn't gonna hold them for ever. If anything changes I'll let you know...
3/11 The wind backed off and we had a great moring. Again the charter wasn't meat hungry so we started letting go fish after we put these five aboard. Probably let go another six or so. We listened to the fleet crying the blues about no fish today but from the start we were deep in Mahi... We had them from 140'- 350' steady as I was using the spread I intend to use at Bimini this year... Small plastic over hoos was the order of the day. We weren't deep enough for the big plastic to have much effect except as teasers...
3/12
Started windy and we worked some live baits on the edge. We rubber hooked a sail. Boxed a nice fat king and a snake. We had another bite on a gog that about dumped a tld 25. Fought it for an hour. Leader let go. Don't know if Jaws got ahold of a king or if some stray yellowfin found us but it was fun. Switched to the troll and poked a rat mahi before heading in. Water was still cool...
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. I'm blaming the weather on Jersey peopel this is part of their weather system and they aren't keeping it pulled in tight on them... 
