1/19-Today we took the Canyon Runner charter group of Dave Tolchen out for a day of sailfishing aboard the Big Boy with Capt. Jason Neadel, mates Rudy and myself. Today was a rought start from the get go! The only live bait boat out of Hillsboro was broken down and because of the rough weather the night before none of the other bait boats had goggle eyes from boca to port everglades. We trecked down to the Sands and picked up 15 pilchards and 8 blue runners and we headed off. The strong outgoing tide proved to be unproductive for the early part of the day. Just as the tide started to turn the mahi bite was on...We got invaded with 30+ mahi from 5-15lbs and proceeded to catch and release 6 or 7 and kept 2 for the table. We got organized and set up the kites again and immediately had a turtle come right through the kites and he had some more mahi for us, and we release two nice 12lb bulls. While we were changing out the short kite bait the long bait got slammed by a itty bitty sail and he managed to jump off with the bait still attached to the hook. We finished the day dropping on the stink hole and pulled a 25lb amberjack and headed home

1/20-Today we had the Canyon Runner charter group of Dave Tolchen again out on the Big Boy for another day of sailfishing. Today bait was a little easier and we got all we needed from the bait boat out of Boca. We were running out of Boca inlet and immediately saw hoards of birds on the horizon and headed to them and set up the kites. We pounded them for about 2 hours and nada. We were constanly marking bait, but for the most part the birds were picking in the weeds being pushed up against the wind. We proceeded to work our way south and every time we reached 180-200ft deep we would get a pair of Mahi's on. We ended up boating 4 mahi today all between 8-12 lbs and then the king bite started. We moved over lots of bait and you could see the kings streaking through them on the sounder. The deep rod quickly got slammed, then the left long rigger, and the right short rigger. One bit us off and we quickly released 2 kings each around 14lbs. Next we dropped the jig down and it got slammed about 50ft down and we released another king around 12lbs. The bite slowed but we did manage 2 more kings up to 14lbs and called it a day, not even seeing a sail today. Reports were strong from Palm beach and Stuart...also from Miami, we were stuck in the middle!
Justin
Canyon Runner Sportfishing