The big news lately offshore has been the plentiful and active pelagic action. We have caught two sailfish recently, some big kingfish, a few blackfin tuna and even a big mahi mahi. Most of these while flat line fishing or vertical jigging while bottom fishing for snapper and grouper. However, we are seeing the kingfish and tuna while trolling as well. The rougher weather as of late has made the trolling a bit slow but when weather allows it has been productive with the rapala Xrap plugs, the YoZuri bonita, and the skirted plugs we have in our shop.
Snapper fishing has been pretty good out deep as well! The vermillion snapper are big out deeper past around 140 foot of water. We are catching plenty of them shallower than that, but they just aren’t the monsters we see out closer to 160-200 foot of water. We are seeing some nice mangrove snapper action in the offshore waters past from near shore to around 180 foot or so we are seeing some steady big mangrove snapper action. Some even closer to 5-7lbs fairly consistently which are pretty big mangrove snapper. They love the double snell rigged threadfins cut into plugs on 40-50lb test with around 5-6ot hooks. We are seeing a few yellowtail snapper out there too, they love the squid pieces like the vermillion or the shrimp.
We had a pretty good bite of amberjack the last week or two. However, Amberjack season has concluded as of yesterday, but we still have plenty of grouper and snapper and pelagics to go after offshore!
