The dolphin fishing has been red hot off Marathon. The bite has been from 12-15 miles out still. Working the birds has been the best thing. Trolling the rigged ballyhoo with the JCamm lures infront of them once again has been working on the larger fish. We have been using fresh flying fish behind the...
The seas were big and so were the fish. We headed out to the Marathon Humps and we ran into some big dolphin just inside the humps. The fish were on working birds. Rigged ballyhoo with a blue and white JCamm lure in front of it did the trick. The blackfin tuna were hitting the long Shimano butterfly...
We headed offshore today and the weedlines were thick 9 miles South of Marathon. That is where we found our first slammer dolphin. The we found some working birds and once again we put out the J Camm lures with a ballyhoo and that kept off the small dolphin and the other two slammers could not stay off...
Where were they 2 days ago for the Marathon Offshore Dolphin Tournament??? We had a great day with Blackfin tuna! We hooked our last one and a shark ate him. As we were fighting him, three large dolphin showed up. We pitched out our live baits and a triple header was on! We landed a 20, 27, and a 30...
Today the seas were 5-6 feet offshore early on. We fished the Marathon Humps and tore up the blackfin tuna on the jigs. We got into dolphin on our way to and from the humps. The big dolphin are showing up. We lost one today in the 40 pound class. We still had a mess of fish to clean. Thanks for checking...
We had a great day at the Marathon Humps with 13 blackfin tuna, a 28 pound cow dolphin, a 8 pound schoolie dolphin, released a 200 pound hammerhead shark, missed a permit bite, and went 1 of 2 on tarpon. We are had a varity of fish for sure. The seas were flat calm and the the dolphin are coming through...
We battled the high seas today! It was 8-10 foot seas and the wind was blowing 27kts out of the SE. We first anchored on the reef and netted up some live ballyhoo. We tried some high speed trolling while looking for good conditions for sailfish. No bites on the wahoo whacker, but we did find a good area...
January and February are when the fish come alive. This is one of the best times of the year to be in the Florida Keys. The sailfish will travel down the Keys in 60 to 200 feet of water. Drifting live ballyhoo through this range will produce a mixture of great fish, like sailfish, dolphin, blackfin tuna...
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GAFF Mag Issue Jan-Feb 2010
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Filed under: florida keys, mackerel, dolphin, cobia, offshore, wahoo, yellowtail, marathon, kingfish, snapper, sailfish, redfish, blackfin tuna
Janet and crew are on the patches off Marathon, Fl Keys. We have some nice yellowtail and mangrove snapper in the box. We added this cero mackerel in the mix. We just threw the cast net and hammered up a livewell full of ballyhoo. We are now going the head outside the reef in 120-140 feet of water insearch...