04/26/2014 Offshore Fishing Report Palm Beach

Carrie and I cleared the inlet bright and early to see a great sunrise and find more bait than we knew what to do with. We saw about 25 boats all piled up over the shallow reefs in about 40' of water. We loaded up on Sardines and Goggle Eyes and headed out to catch fish or that was the plan. Instead we found sharks to be menacing and it was nearly impossible to avoid them. Within 30 minutes we had lost all of our goggle eyes to sharks and sardines weren't too far behind. We did manage a some assortment of bottom fish but the sharks proved to be too thick to conquer. On the bright side we had a good time and the weather was perfect. Lucky for the sharks I was not prepared with the big shark rods however next time the sharks will be in for a battle if they want to play this game again.Seas were about 2-3' with a N/NW wind. Skies were clear and temps were in the mid 80's. Water temps were about 80 and there were a ton of weeds in shallow but not offshore. The gulf stream was about 7 miles offshore.