Trolling and Wrecking

This weekend was trolling along the oceanfront and wreck fishing in the bay.

The ocean was nice and calm. Ribbonfish were plentiful but you could get out of them when you wanted. Spanish mackerel were jumping all over. The boats fishing for them did really well. I did not have my typical cobia encounter but some were caught. There were some king mackerel bites and one was caught. I did not encounter a king or the big red drum that have been popping up. What I did encounter were a surprising number and size of bluefish. Not big blues but not the little ones you usually catch this time of year either.

In the bay, there were tautog including four that already had tags, red drum, black drum and a big sheepshead. A couple cobia did swim by the boat that we did not get casts on.