02/14/2009 Offshore Fishing Report - Morning Trip

Set up for drift fishing around 90 feet straight out Palm Beach Inlet with several bites and no hookups. The water was dead flat with the gulf stream very close to shore so we headed out to 200 feet and hooked up with this 23"/5lb Mutton Snapper over a wreck. Jon also caught a bonita and a baracuda as i was 0-2 today on what i believe were sharks biting through my leader. There was a ton of bonita and blue runners feeding on the surface from 60' to 130'. It was difficult to get your bait in the water without a bonita hitting it. We did see some dolphin in about 120' but were not able to get them in the boat. Great conditions today with a south/southwest wind and very calm seas and 84 degrees with barely a cloud in the sky. Must have been a wildfire burning nearby as the air was filled with smoke for most of the morning.