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 | Sebastian Inlet Offshore 25 To 35 Miles
08/13/12 9:14 PM
gcookila | We had a slam yesterday of all kinds of great fish. We started see the flying fish right at 80 feet of water. With a storm cell approching from the south east we decided to go ahead and start trolling; thinking we might pick up something as the storm past. Well we were right. I had just set out the first pole and set it in the rod holder and the chugger with ballyhoo went off. It turned out to be a nice sized spanish mackerel. So, back to the set up I went; I got one pole set deep center and got one in the left outrigger. I had just engaged the reel and the outrigger popped. I handed this one of to my buddy Kalob and the fight insued with a dolphin and as usual the high flying fish put on a grand display. Again, boat side and into the fish box.
At this point we are thinking, Wow this is great!" 15 minutes and two great eating fish. We were still in 85 feet of water and getting hits. We got the spread set with three pole after another 10 minutes and wouldn't you know it the right out rigger goes off...and you guessed it another dolphin! I had never seen such a fast start to a fishing day offshore. So after no more than 40 minutes we had 3 great fish in the boat and the storm had started to move by.
We continued to troll out to deeper water and at 100 foot the center deep went off again and another beautiful dolphin went in the air with the pink and white chugger dangling from his mouth, lips wrapped around the ballyhoo...so now we are at 4 great fish and we hadn't broken the 100 foot mark! Mind you all reports said 120 to 180 foot for dolphin but if we had started at 120 foot we would have over shot the fish. Infact the deeper we got the the fewer the strikes.
By the time we got to 135 foot and had not had a strike in a hour we decided to head past the 27 fathom and come back to scattered weeds later. We made a 12 mile run and put out our first line at 300 foot on a downrigger 60 feet down. I had gotten three poles set and the downrigger went off...and don't you know the line started to sing. After a 20 minute battle the stripped torpedo showed himself; an awesome wahoo came boat side and meet out steely gaff!!! High fives were shared by all. Grinning from ear to ear we felt like the day could not get any better.
Well we were thankfully wrong...an hour later I see one of the out riggers pop off and next I see this 4 foot creature sky rocket out of the water. This is some thing you usually see from a huge King or Baracuda and boy was I wrong, the fish then went screaming streight to the bottom. Everyone kept saying it is just a big cuda...but let me tell you the joy we had when yet another set of stripes came boat side...another wahoo! Not as big as the first but another all the same. I had never seen a wahoo launch itself like that before but I look forward to seeing it again sometime soon, hopefully!
After quite a bit more trolling and picking up a couple of cudas we decided to hit some bottom fishing. Catching our fair share of black sea bass we decided to call it a day and what a good one it was... |
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