We made it out over the weekend (Saturday) and had a pretty successful day! Things started out slow as we tried our hand at trolling some ballyhoo for the first hours or so on our way out and along the drop. After no real success, we switched it up and drifted some dead sardines on 1 ounce jigs at the 120' ledge from Lost Tree up to Juno pier. The Bonito were quick to find us and then followed the sharks - not just any sharks, but behemoth 10-12 footers that were extremely aggressive! They were herding up our hooked Bonitos and pouncing on them thrashing around on top like I have never seen them! It was quite a site seeing two or three of those monsters closing in on a hooked fish right in front of you. It got down-right intimidating at times! Luckily, one of those big boys had a nice Cobia in tow and he was quick to pick up one of our flat lines. I'll take a 28 lb Cobia any day of the week! After several hours of tangling with Sharks and Bonitos (and no more Cobia in sight), we decided to pull into about 85'-90' just south of Juno Pier. That turned out to be a good move as we immediately hooked and landed a triple header of Kingfish, with two of them in the 15-20 lb range. The Kingfish bite continued in that same depth for the last two hours of our trip and we ended up with 7 Kings total. We were also lucky enough to hit the cleaning table at the same time as another angler that had a beautiful 18 lb Gag Grouper and we couldn't resist the photo opp of having a big Cobia and Grouper together!
Now is the time to get offshore as it is clear that the Kingfish bit e is finally on in good numbers. If you aren't catching them, pull up the lines and move around until you do! Enjoy the pics!
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