05-19-2013 Offshore Fishing Report Palm Beach

Bryan, Andrew and I hit the inlet at 615am ready to redeem ourselves from the previous day but no such luck. Had zero hits on trolling until about 930. W then decided to drift fish and all of a sudden starting have engine trouble on our way to the next spot. Ended up having to call TowBoat US. While waiting and drifting we let some baits out and had a few hits but could not land anything. Definitely not a great weekend for BlueSteel, the crew, and for fishing. Hopefully better luck is in our future! Weeds were very scattered but abundant, sunny skies, same wind and water temps.

05/18/2013 Offshore Fishing Report

Chris, Amanda, Andrew and I hit the inlet around 8am to find sloppy seas but manageable. We trolled 200' off Singer island for about a couple of hours and had 2 knockdowns within 5 minutes after putting the spread out. Nothing after that. We then drifted sardines over a couple of wrecks and got hit by a few fish, presumably Kingfish by the way they bit the bait. After toughing it out for a few hours our newbie wasn't feeling too well so we headed in with a big goose egg! Skunked for the first time in over a year. Wind was calm in the morning then was ESE at about 10-15mph, spotty thunderstorms with a water spout offshore and 2-3' seas. Water temp was 79-81 and moon was half full. There were some patchy weeds but nothing concentrated. We did see one boat pull in a amberjack over a wreck otherwise all appeared very slow. Captain Steve headed way offshore and also could not muster up any fish there or even after he came in close to try to salvage something.

05/11/2013 Offshore Fishing Report Palm Beach

Tyler and I cleared the inlet late around 10am to find 20mph south winds with a sloppy 3' chop. Since it was late and we were in a time crunch before we had to pick Tyler's family up at the dock to do the ICW thing, we decided just to troll for an hour or so. We picked up one bonita and had one other knockdown but that was it for the day. Then we headed in and drove down to WPB to eat lunch then we headed up to Jupiter to see the lighthouse and grab some drinks at Rum Bar and Guantanamo Bays! We headed back around sunset and just made it back before the torrential rains hit.

05/10/2013 Offshore Fishing Report Palm Beach

Played hooky from work today to go fishing with Tyler. We cleared the inlet around 615am to find 2-3' seas. We were going to get live bait but I decided not to mess around with the bait since I hadn't been out in awhile and was not too sure where the bait was. We headed out to about 200' and trolled naked ballyoo, skirted ballyhoo with blue/white islander and a blue and white feather. We trolled for about an hour an a half without much luck other than bonita so we were contemplating what to do next when Tyler said lets stick with the trolling. About 10 minutes later a wahoo nailed the skirted ballyhoo in 205'! After a 15 minute fight we put him in the cooler and put the spread back out. Pulled another bonita in and then we decided to drift some frozen baits in 200'. About 30 minutes later we picked up a 12lb dolphin that was flying solo. She bit a flatlined ballyhoo. After getting into bonitaville we decided to head home. Tyler did pick up a monster 27lb bonita.