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Post by tropicbird on May 23, 2024 19:18:29 GMT -5
Tried some swordfishing SE of Miami today. My buddies Harry and Eloy, and me, all said the same thing on the way out: "I hope the current is not too strong." I guess our wishful thinking was too powerful. We had barely any current the seven hours we spent on the sword grounds. At times we had a .5 knot drift north, at others nothing at all. Had one weak bite that pulled the bait off the hook, and got a just legal mahi on a flatlined ballyhoo. Saw hardly any life out there.
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Post by plastered on May 24, 2024 4:13:19 GMT -5
Last Saturday current was 4.5 in 800 ft
no good for deep dropping.
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Post by Captj on May 24, 2024 14:35:59 GMT -5
Key Largo current was perfect on Tuesday. Yesterday not so much. Spoke with a neighbor who got out on Wednesday and they couldn't hold bottom in 70' with 2#. Go figure.
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Post by bridgeman213 on May 24, 2024 15:03:27 GMT -5
Doesn't the gulf stream swing inshore along SE FLA during the summer months??
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Post by lemaymiami on May 25, 2024 6:41:47 GMT -5
To put it mildly... the Stream meanders in and out, has gyres and wobbles, etc. and changes from day to day depending on where you are. The best captain I ever worked for - all those years ago (1973) always had me rig a base load of bally, mullet, and bonita strips, before our customers ever showed up each morning. He would never let me set out a bait without looking at the conditions first -to see where the edge was (if it was there at all....) along with water color, etc. -then he'd tell me exactly what to set out. In that era, with primitive nav gear - he had a bunch of wrecks that he'd have us drop on by double ranges alone when the conditions weren't good for trolling (no depthfinder either...). Of course he always set up his drops while positioning the boat - where I couldn't see the first range. He also knew the relief (how high off the bottom to set up a drop...) and the actual depth we were dropping in... In those days deep dropping consisted of a big single manual wireline with .040 monel wire (100lb wire) and two pounds of lead...
All of that is just a memory for me since I long ago retreated back inshore and haven't strayed back out into bluewater at all in years and years... One of the lessons I learned was to do whatever the conditions would allow. Whenever I forget that lesson I usually end up going home - talking to myself as a result...
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Post by swampdog on May 25, 2024 11:08:36 GMT -5
When I was young, we often fished no matter the conditions, simply because it was a day off (weekends) or a vacation day planned well in advance. So we had a lot of no fish poor condition days when we were simply battling the weather conditions.
Today thanks to all the weather reporting capabilities we plan tentative trips, and often call it off. I may fish less but enjoy it more. Good luck outside and be safe.
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