January 18 2014 Offshore Fishing Report - Palm Beach

Andrew, Thomas, Carrie and yours truly hit the waters around 7am despite 48 degree air temps! We loaded up on goggle eyes thanks to Dynamite Live Bait. We started off the morning by flying the kite. Had no problems at first but then the winds changed and made it difficult to keep it flying. We then just freelined the baits and landed a Bonita. After several hours of relatively no action we saw another free jumping Sail in about 160' but no luck getting him to bite. We then did a little bottom fishing and pulled up a keep Mutton in about 115'. We had heard they were spawning so they would be pretty easy to catch. Otherwise a very slow, chilly day but still a great day on the water. Once again the seas were supposed to be 4-6' but with a NW that means fishable within a few miles of the coast. Gulfstream was reportedly 3 miles from shore and water temps were about 77 degrees 1-2 miles out. The full moon was 2 days before and skies were perfectly clear.