Woke early and got a look at the first daylight Jupiter inlet camera. Odd? North west at a reasonable 10-15 but I could see some real shoulders on the swell coming ashore. Oh well. Had my client there way bright and early. Flood tide from the full moon had he up top to drop the antennas so I could clear the bridge. We picked up a dozen gogs to suppliment the box of dead hoos I had ready to rock. The inlet was nice with some swell. At the edge the swell was a little beefier and there was a big pack of kite flyers.
Though they weren't doing much our spread got wet and here came a double. Game on... Hot fish to boot!
The swell was growing with a couple feet of cross chop so I chased rather than back. Did the honors and not hindered by a kite was able to reload and set exactly where we got them. Bingo! Lightning struck twice and another double. The swell continued to get bigger so it was a chase thing again. One of them was a particularly stubborn one and was twenty plus minutes to the release.
9:15 and four down. We did two more passes through the zone with nothing. Our gog supply was running low already so we switched to dead bait. The swell and sea was now pushing 8-10' with stray 12's just to remind us mother nature is in charge. I was shocked that under this ideal condition we didn't see more tailing down sea. In fact I only saw one the whole day. Two singles
kept us from totally going to sleep. I chased birds and flyers around but nothing of importance could be found.
About two o'clock it was time to switch back and swim our remaining gogs. I looked east to see the small cruise ship we have getting worked by the swell. It even stuffed the bow on a couple. We both were watching that and didn't see the next fish pound our left rigger gog. We certainly caught on quick though when the fish started greyhounding at us... Then away, and away some more. I was at high trolling speed before the line loss slowed. Man! This fish had been free basing hemorhoids. Not steroids. Hemorhoids ... It was being an ass.
Wanted no part of getting got. That circle wasn't about to let go so it was just going to have to be convinced. It ran up sea and fully forty minutes and three miles later I grabbed the leader on the seventh fish we saw for the day.
We tried a little more deadbaiting. No fish but the gannets found the circle hoos irresistable! I guess we gout bombed a half dozen tomes by them and we had enough...
Next stop. Key Largo then back here with the tourney boat.
Pretty work "Deep" love that 3rd pic. surprised there aren't some broom sticks coming out of that swell. How deep you gettin em? save me some for the "Pelican" Tourney in a couple weeks Nice Job
Tuesday I had em in like 140... Today almost all of it was like 114-116 I did hear of some in 80 and saw a lot of bird life in there too but couldn't raise squat.
cool, i hear they are catchin up Stuart and Ft. Pierce as well, damn i hope they show up for this tourney we're fishing, it is already sounding better than last year was at this time is that right?
This whole season has been better... Last year the south east wind didn't want to give up the ghost. Even at prime time it was a pick of two or three shots a day. I've been seeing 4-10 a day for weeks now and its only starting to get good...
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I guess we gout bombed a half dozen tomes by them and we had enough...
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