It was like colony's of Africanized Bees

Aquaholic IV

I am not really an offshore fisherman although yesterday was so beautiful so I took a run offshore to find hundreds, thousands of swarming schools of bonito! They were in 30, 40, 50, .........100 feet of water. There was large schools busting the bait everywhere, beautiful sight to see although after catching a dozen or so, I had a mutiny on board. I'm not bringing that fish in, I'm too tired, no you bring it in, not not me......it was exhausting. We finally hit a decent sized black fin in 110 feet, sushi for dinner, needed that good protein to help recover from all the work with the bonitos. Yesterday the blue feather seemed to be the weapon of choice, was hit 9 out of 10 times including some fast runners that excluded capture. Skirted ballyhoo was not in their diet yesterday nor was a cedar plug although the deep diver X-Wrap was the second best choice. I'll try to post the black fin picture although the Forum is not I-Pad friendly.

B.Wilmot

Nice BFT !!! On our way in wee seen the schools everywhere. It was a site to see!!

Catchem up!!!
B_W

Fi$h2nguyen

Nice blackfin. Other than seeing them in or jump out of the water, how can you tell whether it's a school of blackfin or Bonita?

Machine Head

We also found schools of small bullet Bonito and some schools of Spanish Macs in FP.

PaulBoat

This was Thursday off Boynton - they were everywhere - some big skippies and BFTs mixed in....

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Nice BFT btw...

Vindawg

Nice BFT...Found some bigger ones up this way on Saturday ourselves.

Aquaholic IV

Fi$h2nguyen wrote: »

Nice blackfin. Other than seeing them in or jump out of the water, how can you tell whether it's a school of blackfin or Bonita?

You could actually see them and identify them when they were jumping out of the water. They did not spook, you could just about cast net them.

robalorog

Bonita can be fun especially to people that dont go offshore often but they will definately work you over. Nice report..

Derek Arsua

Download tap talk on your iPad its very simple to load pics with tap talk

zzzzzzsplash

Crazy schools of tuna lately. Annual fall tuna run is in full swing. We found bonita in Jupiter from 20' right off the beach all the way out mixing with blackfins in 250'.

Alwaysforward

Nice BFT... Thanks for taking the time to post the report... :applause

Cmart104

Congrats on the sashimi

mikey

Fi$h2nguyen wrote: »

Nice blackfin. Other than seeing them in or jump out of the water, how can you tell whether it's a school of blackfin or Bonita?

Blackfin are black and yellow and they jump. Bonita don't jump they just boil