MIA BCH 6 FEB

catchemup

Fished yesterday Sunday.  As usual loaded up with live gogs and pilchards from Pedro. While the the day was beautiful the VHF was pretty quiet.  While we only had a handful of  fish and bites all day you would would probably assume that things were pretty grim,…but happily and to the contrary... we had a nice outing. We fished the Diamonds in the morning, then the new Miami Sea Buoy, and finally the wrecks off Key Biscayne. Drifted in from 180’ into 80’. Had a baby shark that was cut in two by a cuda and then a small mutton mauled by a shark. Landed a few small and medium size sharks [none big enough for at least a real battle]. We did manage to loose a good fish on top on a gog assumed to be a cuda  and had a couple of cutoffs down deep. Bottom line…caught only a few  “ABC” fish  [already been chewed]  all day but plenty of time watching one of the angler's hook, fight, and get clean release a really nice sail on a spinner. The fish ran out 300 yards after the hook up and put on a terrific aerial display way out to sea…and then even managed a few final jumps in close just before being  released. The sail appeared to be 7ft plus and 45# - 50#s…a really nice fish on lite tackle.