The wind finally stopped blowing for 1 day and I had Kint, Nick, Tetsu and Frank down from NY with http://www.bookfishingtrips.com/. for their 1st trip of 2013. We had a great ride out with light NW winds and ran 40 mph most of the way. We had jigs in the water by 7:30 and as expected 1st jig down was hammered by a decent size AJ. We fished in 140 feet most of the day to avoid the sharks but paid the price with the Barracuda (landed at least 12 and lost 20 plus jigs to the toothy critters). We had constant action all morning and the AJ bite was wide open from 9:00 to 11;30. Kint was the 1st to land a African Pompano a giant 39 lb 8 ounces beast. We had triples on but pulled hooks on 2 of them close to the boat. Frank was the next to land another 35 lber. Nick followed with another 35 lber. Frank caught on fire landed 4 Africans and his last one weighed 39 lbs and 3 ounces. In all we caught 7 Africans ranging from 33 to 39 lbs. Most of the AJs were 20 to 35 lbs and a couple fatties around 50 lbs. The winds started picking up in the early afternoon and then it started blowing 20 to 25 out of the SW and decided to call it a day. Outstanding start to the 2013 spring fishing and just hope the weather starts to improve.
Captain Mike Jackson
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