Hello Fish Fans, I only got out twice since my last report before I took the kids to Disney but the Dolphin fishin is still excellent and I’m glad to be back. Last Tuesday was a trip I won’t soon forget and I’d be willing to bet my clients will never forget. We ran out to an area about 12 miles offshore thats been reel good to me over the la/2 or 3 weeks and found an old torn up life jacket floating in the gulfstream with a pack of 8 to 12 pound Dolphin hangin around it. We caught 6 or 7 reel nice Dolphin there and decided to keep trolling into the gulfstream current to get back to where we started out earlier that morning. There wasn’t any weedline but there was plenty of flying fish and where there’s bait there’s usually gonna be fish. We may have trolled for 20 or 30 minutes but it didn’t seem that long before the short rigger got slammed and a Big Bull Dolphin came shooting up in the air like he was fired from a canon. I knew as soon as I saw him he was at least 40 pounds and I began casting another bait around him trying to hook up a Big Cow Dolphin but after about 10 minutes I was convinced that this Bull was by himself so I cleared the lines and watched the show. On this day I had 3 anglers, Scott who was fighting the fish, one that had never been deep sea fishing before and one that was busy chumming if you know what I mean. This Bull Dolphin was getting the best of Scott and about 30 minutes into it he handed me the rod to rest for a moment. I’ve caught plenty of 40 pounders, a few 50 pounders and 1 60 pounder, I can tell you this fish was all of 50 pounds and 6 feet long. Scott only got to rest for a couple of minutes because a Sailfish went cruising past the back of the boat and I had to try and Hook him up, why I don’t know. We didn’t catch the Sailfish because a Big Cow Dolphin took the bait and the next thing you know I had 5 more Big Dolphin hooked-up between the other 2 anglers while Scott was still fighting his Big Bull. We boated all the other Dolphin but after 50 minutes when it looked like the Big Bull was finished and doing circles 10 feet below the boat, Scott had a little too much muscle left for the freying 80 pound leader and the Big Bull got away to fight another day. I’ve never had a Dolphin wear through 80 pound leader wi/20 pound tackle but the next time we hook-up with a Big Bull Dolphin he’ll have to chew through 100 pound leader to avoid me and the gaff. I’ll be back next week with another fishin report from Stuart Florida, Sailfish Capital of the World. Give me a call and let’s go fishin ! Catch you later, Captain Wayne, Reel Busy Charters 305-304-9049 cell or 772-288-1332 home
