The Varadis came down for their annual summer trip and probably experienced the best fishing possible! Despite the choppy seas Kim, Luke, LJ and I hit the inlet around 630am. We loaded up with a few blue runners and greenies and set off in search of Mahi and Sailfish. After about 15 minutes of having lines in the water, LJ hooks up with a 30" Mahi that was in the weeds. Luke caught one shortly after it but we sent it back to grow bigger for the next time they are here. Target species #1, check! Next on to the Sailfish. After finding a solid weedline in 200' of water we set up shop again with some freelines and bottom rigs just to see if we can get a bigger dolphin sitting below the weeds. The slammer rod goes off and a Sail begins dancing across the water as if to say welcome to the Varadis!! Luke fought it for about 25 minutes and finally brought it to the boat. As he got it closer we noticed the Sail had wrapped himself in the fishing line and was not doing well. As Luke pulled him to me, i noticed he was not alive. It was such a great moment to catch a Sail but its shame to see the die! We tried to revive him but to no avail. After the celebration we set up a couple more drifts and could only manage bonito so we headed in before the storms. Aunt Carol wanted to head up to the Juno Pier to fish so we packed up and headed out around 3pm. There was so much bait around the pier it was incredible. Within 5 minutes and his first cast Luke landed a Snook to finish off the day!
Conditions were choppy with water temps around 84. Weed line was heavy in about 150-200. We fished the tide going out.
Here are some pictures from the trip!
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