5/23-24
Bottom fishing was great. Beeliner fishing was insane with the majority of them being jumbos, the guys that fished for them had double limits or close to it. We also caught some nice Scamps, and a big African Pompano. The AJs didn’t want to cooperate, I would have liked to see a few more of them in the box, most of them that we hooked broke us off. A few of the spots we fished I marked Jacks up high but they never turned on for us.
On the way to the rig I got a call from the office warning us about a big storm system around Brownsville heading West. I monitored it all night with our satellite weather and it would end up cutting our night short but not before we put a pile of fish in the boat.
Most of our YFT came on Halcos with a few on chunks and Frenzy’s. It was steady all night, we boated YFT on just about every drift with most drifts producing multiple fish. The Blackfin started off slow for us but ended up biting pretty good after midnight.
By 4:00 am the system had moved within 60 miles of us so we headed home. I kicked it in gear and we ran 24-25 knots home and we were able to beat the weather in by about 30 minutes.
Trip totals.....
38 YFT
55 BFT
8 Scamp
1 Mangrove
621 Beeliners
1 YellowEdge
2 AJ
2 AlmacoJack
1 African Pompano
1 Rainbow Runner