Posted on August 25th, 2024
today we had yet another day with beautiful weather, including sunny skies, warm temperatures, and a flat calm ocean. It looks like we’ve got a few more in store as well so get out there and get fishing.
Captain Chase Eberle of Chasin Tidescharters had two great trips today. This morning it was false albacore and this afternoon he ended up with a very nice mahi.
Captain Chris Mizurak of the Angler reported decent fishing today on a flat calm ocean. Anglers caught Seabass, flounder and some mahi.
Local anglers, Fred Yesco and Doug Clark fished with Captain Tony Battista on Saltwater adventures today and had some keeper Flounder up to 22.5 inches.
Captain Monty Hawkins of the Morning Star had another nice day on the rip today.
Owing a hard ebb there was a bit of slop in the mouth of the inlet. Once clear a calm sea with the least bit of SE ground swell was ours to enjoy for the day.
Justin & Ivan deployed two bamboo/pyramid combos at an experimental reef. From there we put lines back out and trolled to the mahi grounds. Dreams of a late summer inshore wahoo or anything soon crumbled; we went on the hunt for green beauties.
Scoundrels..
Seventy three degree water – no luv.
At last a good school of mahi was sighted – they gave us the fin.
One – just one – came to look at a bait
and turned.
So a-sea bassing we did go. Instantly more productive, Joe had a time keeping up with the venting.
So long as a bit of wind chop overwashes our releases, they’ll stay cool enough to re reacclimate their air bladders and descend. But when flat calm with no overwash? Their organs quickly overheat and they become “recreational release mortality.”
To prevent release mortality in this quite specific circumstance we use venting needles.. Simple stainless tubing with which to release excess gas – degassing – once vented? Sea bass quickly swim back down to the reef. We’ve caught many sea bass bearing a small venting scar in the high-belly, just below where ribs join the backbone.
It Works..
My anglers caught some nice sea bass today. I could’ve finished with bass – called it a day.
But Noooo..
Mahi bit late yesterday. I wondered if they would again today.
One sure way to find out.
Returned to the spot we’d seen a good school earlier – they bit. Just a taste of mahi mayhem – perhaps more rewarding still to get the skunk gone. Couple better sized ones too. Fished a few more spots we’d goose egged at earlier in the day. Caught at all but one.
It’s Fishing.
Left 20 min early – in almost three hours late. Client satisfaction is not always easily won.
Could use a day where they bite to suit the published schedule though.
You know; Cleaning, laundry, sleep..
Cheers!
Monty
Captain Will of local hooker charters found Seabass fishing to be a little slow, but he still found a few and some mahi.
