Dolphin Dolphin Dolphin and a Blue Marlin?

The mahi mahi (dolphin) bite continues to be incredible out of Jacksonville and St. Augustine at the ledge. We caught another 14 nice fish this past weekend up to about 40 pounds. Our bigger fish came past the rolldown in around 400 feet of water. The gulf stream was a beautiful color blue! Keep an eye out, two boats had a shot at a blue marlin this weekend!

Mahi, Wahoo and Sailfish at the ledge out of St. Augustine

We had a another great day of fishing this weekend. On Saturday we had 12 Mahi, 4 Wahoo and a sailfish. The dolphin ranged from 10-30 pounds. The bigger fish came from 250 to 300 feet of water. The rest of the fish and the wahoo were caught from 160 to 180 feet. The sailfish was caught in around 220 feet. This was the second sail in the last week for us. We were a bit north of due east St. Augustine.

It was an extremely rough ride out. Thankfully the 24 degree dead rise in the 25 foot Bluewater 2550 ate up the slop pretty well so it didn't beat us up too bad. I cannot say enough good things about the boat and how it handles the sea. Bluewater did well with the 2550.

Look for weeds, flyers and the blue water and you should find plenty of Mahi. Other boats did well with the Jodie Lynn II cathing around 40 fish on Thursday.

50# Wahoo caught on a C&H Alien





Katie's lit up dolphin


Mindy's sailfish caught on an Islander Sailure





12 Mahi, 4 Wahoo

Mahi showing up off of Jacksonville and St. Augustine already!

We normally don't see a consistent Mahi-Mahi bite off of Northeast Florida until late March at the earliest. Well strangely enough bailer dolphin were caught all weekend in the gulf stream on some nice weed lines. We personally had 7 Mahi up to about 10 pounds. I heard other similar reports. All of the fish were caught at 250' or deeper. We were out of St. Augustine inlet.

There were also quite a few Wahoo caught. Tt sounded like the key to success was high speed trolling with Mr. Big's with blue and white from 150-190' of water. Most of the bites were caught a little south of Mayport and a little north of St. Augustine. The Pez Vela boat reportedly had 7 Wahoo!