Bluefish bank
The last morning with Alan and Tim was a plan B morning the night before plans were made for a dawn start offshore for kings and sails but waking in the dark the weather gods had said NO ! With 15 to 20 mph winds in the old days I would have stayed close and had fun in the mangroves but now tend to push through the bad seas and get to bluefish bank some 15 miles north west of Marathon. This a large bank round in shape and coming up to 3 ft so not matter what direction the wind it always has a lee side and very fishable in winds up to 25 mph the joys of the Florida Keys. The good old cat punched through the seas and in no time we were fishing there is so much bait here Tim was able to just dip net bait at the side of the chum it was hard to get a bait back just so many mackerel and blue fish but some times a bigger bait would get back and shark to 100 lbs were the reward.
The bluefish are interesting just like the UK bass but with a very serious sett of teeth and attitude they don’t go big at about 1 to 3 lbs some 5 to 7 as well but jump and run very hard if you match the hatch great fun. The one problem with bluefish is they tend to gang up on big baits and very soon in piranha style make them small baits then no bait. On this morning we had one fun incident the shark bait was being eaten by bluefish then one got stuck on the shark hook and on the wind in was hit big time by a shark as well only in the Florida Keys. Well Alan and Tim had an amazing fishing holiday and have already penciled in their first trip of 2013 as they say work hard and play hard good to fish with you guys as always.