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Florida Keys fishing at it's best.

 | By SearokCharters on 6/16/2014 12:00:00 AM | Views (651)

Being in the fishing business has it's perks. We get to spend all day on the water, seeing the excitement on our customers faces the first time the rod bends over the gunnel of the boat, and of course, we get to test new equipment. We took a trip down to Sunshine Key for a long weekend to test out some jigs and spoons for Mahi. About 10 miles offshore we came across a decent sized weed patch. It was the perfect scenario, water was clear, not much wind and sun was shinning. We tried pitching chunks of ballyhoo under the weed with zero luck. Took a couple of our new lures and let them sink about 50 feet. Started working it and after the 4th cast a school of Mahi came to the surface. After we pitched everything to them but the kitchen sink we were 3 short of our limit. Since they were only schoolies I was using very light tackle. I had a custom made 7 foot trout rod with a Penn Battle inshore reel with 20# braid. After the bite slowed down we noticed a nice bull swimming near by. I had nothing bigger set up so I pitched to him with the trout rod. Hoping I would just tease him while someone else got a heavier rod ready, he bolted and took my bait. I was sure he was going to either break the line, the hook or the rod. Well, we ended up landing him after a solid 30 minutes of back and forth fight of him ripping line so fast I thought the reel was going to implode. This fish is in my top 3 of favorite catches. Fishing in the Keys never gets old. 

Catch Information

Species:
Ballyhoo
Ballyhoo

Mahi-mahi
Mahi-mahi

This Fishing Report was submitted on 6/16/2014 12:00:00 AM by SearokCharters and last updated on 6/16/2014 10:50:40 AM.

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