Conditions on the ocean only allowed us to get out twice offshore this past week. Unfortunately, you had to have a full-day trip and not half-days because we had to travel an awful far distance to find the fish! We found some dolphin out there, straight out, in roughly 400′ depths. There was a little rip going on, but nothing major yet. Amberjack were in 250′ depths on some of the deep wrecks but the sharks wouldn’t give you the chance to get them to the boat. We tried some chicken rigging, but it produced disappointing results. On the bottom, it was cold and muddy and there were no takers on our squid. Further down south out of Sebastian, the kingfish bite has been going off, but it’s
All in all, offshore out of Canaveral has been a giant dump. This week it looks like 15-30mph winds blowing, I don’t have very high expectations. Oh, we did manage to get one fish to the boat this week and it was a pretty good one! It’s nice to catch a Wahoo, but with the way things have been going lately, any fish is a nice one.
Welcome to the tough fishing club, I mean the tough catching club; the fishing is the easy part.