Offshore PB
One day last week we woke up to flat clam seas so with are normal what to do breakfast meet offshore was the call. As I have said before our boat is just as happy 30 miles offshore or in 12in deep on the fl;ats. Also 4 to 6 ft seas are no problem but most guests prefer clam seas for offshore. Rigged for dorado, sails and maybe tuna we went south, soon we were some 18 miles south of marathon and in some 6 to 7 hundred feet deep. Ideal conditions for a basic 4 or 5 bait trolling only one problem in all ares where there should have been fish Portuguese Man of War not nice see next blog. So a change of plans and with the wind getting up as well back to some deeper wrecks in 200ft which are on fire with big amberjack.
On arriving at one of our wrecks the seas were getting big but a few drifts before we went inshore. First drift bang Carol was on but this one did not want to come up and after she did so well we lost the fish. Shortly after Paul was on and after a good fight the fish was in the boat. Not an AJ but a very large almaco jack, this is only our second almaco and at 27lb a very large one for the Keys and I think it will be a long time before we catch a bigger one. The seas were not getting any better so a run inshore to have fun with the king mackerel.
These are also on fire at this time of year so we put the pick down on the edge of the reef and started to chum and chunk feed. Very shortly it was macerel on and with a good size fish to 18lb. Its hard to tell you how hard these fish hit the baits but most anglers come back with hugh smiles after a mac attack.