I had a couple local anglers for a gulf stream trip on Sat. Headed out into a NE swell left from the cold front that moved through at the end of the week. Started trolling in 140 feet of water and got a couple fish right away but only bonita and cudas. The water temp was 80 degrees but no life. We worked from 140 out to 600 feet with very little action. Dropped down looking for some grouper and found a school of giant AJs. The 1ts fish was a 56 inch 85 lbers and the 2nd was a 65 lb fish. Decided to move to the north looking for better trolling and late in the afternoon finally found a weed line with some bait and current. Once we had the lines out it didn’t take long for the 1st Mahi to show up. We had great action for the next few hours and landed 12 decent Mahi with some double headers. The largest bull was around 18 lbs. The short flat line went off and a nice Sail fish started jumping and putting on a show. Released after a couple photos and she was a large fish. Headed back in late after a double header of Mahi to finish the day.
Captain Mike Jackson
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