Offshore Mayport 5/30 Kings, Cobias, and 1st Sailfish

Sea-Squatch

We got an early start Sunday morning, and planned on making it out to Elton. We caught our pogies quickly at the poles, and started out to Elton. It wasn't long before we knew Elton wasn't going to happen for us. The north wind, and a super unorganized ocean had us running pretty slow. It was also a super wet ride too. We stopped at MR, and bottom fished. The snaps and sharks ran us out of there. We decided to troll to RL, and it didn't take long for us to hook a small sail.

Here's my 13yr old w/ his 1st ever sailfish.



It was a quick pic, and then released. High 5's, and then some more trolling. We never had another strike all the way to RL. We did put a small king on ice from the flat line. It started laying down so we slowly made our way to AH. We caught a couple of stringer fish, and a little bit better king. The ocean got better, so we ran out to TW. At TW we got into a decent bite of stringer fish, caught a nice king, and a couple of cobia (1 keeper).  It was a fun day, and we managed to scrap up a good box of fish.

Here's our pic back at the cleaning table.



...and if you're bored, watch our video from the trip.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGm5Ewqag1M

cftsmoke

Congrats, I went out yesterday and made the same assessment - confused waves with a few larger sets thrown in to keep you on your toes and closer to shore.  I ended up at MR and the tug but couldn't keep the ARS off me long enough to find much else.  I did have two nice cobia swim up but they unfortunately had lockjaw no matter what i threw at them.  Guess I should've trolled.  Since I had a decent honey-do list waiting, I headed in by 1130 and almost ran over an 8' hammerhead cruising the surface.  Good times.

plumber1969

Great job. We fished out of Vilano and got pounded. We made it out to 26 miles and it was a VERY confused sea yesterday and we managed a small king, lost another one and a monster Jack that 3 bull sharks wanted more than me. We were back at 12:30. 

JPinPVB

That’s awesome! Nice job

creekgeek

Very nice. Way to stick with it.

Redaction

Nice...love seeing your reports!

BottomBumpin

NICE work making it happen in those conditions! congrats!

dontezuma

That's great work.  We went out Saturday for a dive and same conditions.  I decided to kill the Sunday trip since it looked to be the same.  Man, when will it lay down?  I'm ready for Lake Atlantic!

chris321

Nice job, jealous of the sail lol.We went out saturday about 60 and caught some a mahi biggest was 20 some. We also hooked something that spooled us which was about 200 yard which we think may have been a decent yft. Couldn’t bottomfish at all current was crazy. 10 oz weight just flatlined behind the boat.