5/18 more mahi and grouper

Shivs

Left out of St Aug and ran due east, tried trolling for a while but there was a lot of trolling pressure so we decided to work the weed lines throwing chunks trying to coax the fish to bite.  We manage 5 Mahi and lost several more including what would have been a personal best (4-5' bull mahi).  I fought him several times around the boat and got him boat side several times and on the last attempt when I thought he was tired I palmed the spool  and the leader broke (rookie mistake that cost me a big fish     We saw schools of Mahi on the weed lines but most had lock jaw, Dave thru a jig and managed to get two of them to bite.  We also caught another grouper this week but the bottom fishing was off compared to last week.

model14

How far out were the weed lines?

Sea-Squatch

Nice job and a really nice looking red grouper!

cftsmoke

Strong showing. We had a tough bottom day on Saturday and didn’t get out early enough to make the run for mahi.  Good weekend on the water but hurts to miss our chances.

JustDave

Nice job! 

Shivs

model14 said:

How far out were the weed lines?

170' of water due east of St Aug, approx 60-65 miles.

firstcoastind

Thanks for the info, trying to get out this week.