The weather was great last week. I managed to get out on our boat 3-4 times and then went out on a friends on Saturday. On Sunday we went out about 20 miles to 1000-1100' of water looking for birds and weed lines. We saw nothing and slowly headed back in. At around 200 feet we worked a weak weed line and it produced nothing. We headed in to the patch reefs and landed a nice 26" red grouper. We went out a couple more times to the patch reefs but only caught undersized yellowtail and grunts. We went fishing most nights from the dock and hooked up on nice nurse sharks and 9-11" mangrove snappers. My parents place is on Adams cut so most of the boats for the upper keys go in and out of there. No one really had much luck on the dolphin all week. On Saturday my last day there we headed out dolphin fishing again. We went out 25 miles to around 1300' of water and ran into a large school of birds circling and diving. We ran over it once with ballyhoo and quickly decided it was probably a school of tuna. We switched to Tuna plugs and ran over it a couple times with no luck. The birds all flew off in different directions. We then started blindly trolling for a bit and I caught my first ever dolphin. It was around 6-7lbs but a fun catch. We found some nice rip's and trolled those for a while and hooked up on another small dolphin. This one had friends and we were able to catch some but there were still more in the water and the bite just turned off. No matter what we tried they would not hit it. We decided to move on and at that point we discovered we had drifted all the way up to 25 miles east of Elliot key which is in southern dade county. We decided to head back. We found another bucket in about 200-250' of water and caught 2 dolphin off that and then headed in. All in all it was a good day. 50 gallons of fuel and over 100 miles of travel. lol
The dolphin should be better when Mike gets down there in June. The Tarpon really haven't started biting either but should fire up in the next couple of weeks.
The dolphin should be better when Mike gets down there in June. The Tarpon really haven't started biting either but should fire up in the next couple of weeks.