07/25/2009 Offshore Fishing Report

Cleared in the inlet at 645am with the family to find beautiful conditions with a slight east wind and big storms over the Bahama's providing a nice sunrise with the calm seas. The blue water finally made its long awaited appearance. The kids caught several Bonito with Luke and LJ catching dinner for the family. We fished from about 80' to 300' of water with a lot of bait popping on the surface with Bonito closely behind. At 9am we saw a Sail free jumping in about 110' but the dive boats lived up to their jerk stereotype and dropped their divers right in front of our drift after circling us for about 15 minutes. We also found a tree branch and a weed line in 250' but no one was home other than a Bonito and maybe a something big that got off LJ's line. Overall conditions were absolutely perfect with blue water easily accessible and the current at about 2mph. Fishing was rather slow but everyone caught their first Offshore fish and had a blast. At least the Bonito are biting again which means the Wahoo should be more abundant in coming weeks.