July 31 2014 Marathon, Florida Mini Lobster Season Report

We headed out to the same spot on Day 2 but found the spot to be picked over. We caught several but then found some different spots that produced right off the bat and we limited out again! Doug and Slim took MVP awards for best lobsterman and Jot finished in the voting just behind them! All in all Team Ticklestick is getting much better and we are already looking forward to next year! After lobstering I took out Slim and Jot for their first Dive. We went out on the patch reefs near Herman's Hole. They saw a few lobster and a nurse shark but nothing worth spearing. Tyler fishing in about 80' and hooked a nice mutton and some porgies.

July 30 2014 Marathon, Florida Mini Lobster Season Report

We finally figured out this whole lobster thing! We found some great spots on the Gulf Side. Slim nailed a Lionfish with his Hawaii Sling. We did get stopped by the FWC but they were very nice and just keeping an eye on things. I must say Mini Season was not nearly as bad as people made it out to be! Weather was great and only trouble was finding gas.Total lobster count on day one was 36!

July 29 2014 Marathon, Florida Offshore Fishing Report

I took Jillian, Nick and Sonja offshore hoping to find more dolphin. We had Tyler's crew following behind us. We headed to our "spot" from 2013 and sure enough Tyler and Andrew hooked up with some monster Dolphin! We found some small ones but weeds were hard to come by and the birds were playing tricks on us. Tyler's dolphin took free lined dead ballyhoo! We had live bait but the dolphin weren't interested in anything we threw at them.Weighed in about 24lbs and 30 lbs! We did an afternoon trip and caught some cero mackerel on the reef as the sun was setting.

July 28 2014 Marathon, Florida Offshore Fishing Report

Tyler, Doug, Andrew and I headed offshore to find more monster dolphin! We really struggled to find weedlines but finally started to run into some about 15 miles offshore. We then saw a flock of birds diving and found the mother load of small dolphin. They were only hitting live bait so we found some weeds and caught live bait with the sabikis. We were able to boat 5 keeper dolphin although they were only around 24". Still good on the table though! Andrew also speared his first fish under the weed patches! We caught most of the fish about 12-20 miles offshore. We then headed in to grab the rest of the crew to do some snorkeling. Current was very light if any and water was very clear.Doug landed a monster Mutton too on the trusty sardine.

July 27 2014 Marathon, Florida Fishing Report

Team Ticklestick headed down to Marathon for our first mini season. We stayed in Key Colony which was a great place! Will definately be back there next summer. We started off Sunday evening by doing some reef fishing on Jackie Leigh. We caught a couple of yellowtail snapper and some other small snappers and grunts. We just used some frozen sardines and frozen shrimp.No fish pictures as everything was pretty small. Current was basically nonexistent on the reef. We headed back after sunset to do some dock light fishing. We saw a few tarpon but no luck on getting them to bite. We saw several lobster crawling on the grass flats leading us to believe bullynetting is not a bad idea!

July 20 2014 Offshore Palm Beach Fishing Report

It was like deja vu but me, the old man, Matt and Joyce headed out bright and early. We were determined to fight through the bonita for a summer sail however there were huge mats of weeds in 250' out so we couldn't pass that up. Within a few minutes of being out there we hooked a couple of keep dolphin. Just barely keepers at about 21" but since it was my old man's first dolphin we kept them for dinner. We did see a sailfish freejumpin in 400' but could not get him to bite. Seas were a little sloppy to start the day but got dead flat as the morning went on. We fished until about 11am then headed in to call it a day. All in all we ended up with 5 mahi and a 15lb skipjack that mean some Ahi Tuna! Caught the skipjack on a freelined ballyhoo. Caught the dolphin on anything that we through. Water was much clearer today with the SE winds overnight.

July 19 2014 Offshore Palm Beach Fishing Report

Me, the old man, Matt and Carrie hit the water at sunrise in search of a summer sail but we mostly found bonita and more bonita. By 8am we had hooked several, one of which was torn to pieces by a Barracuda. Matt also landed a monster bull shark. We then headed offshore in search of weeds and dolphin. We found several nice patches that held lots of little dolphin. Each patch of weeds produced a few small peanuts then we would move on to the next patch. All in all it was a good day and we headed in to beat the heat. Current was pretty much non existent until we got to the gulfstream which was about 7 miles out. We caught several mahi on topwater, dead bait, and live bait caught on the sabiki. Got some good GoPro footage of the bullshark. Click here for the video. Matts Bull Shark 7-19-2014

July 5 2014 Offshore Fishing Report Palm Beach

Jed, Doug, me and Andrew headed out to try to avoid the bonita. We caught a few of them within minutes of having a line in then decided to head offshore when the bull sharks made another appearance. We ran offshore about 8 miles and started picking up some weeds so we searched and searched until we found the mother load in 800'. We picked up a bunch of little peanuts just under sized. Didn't take any pictures as we were in hot pursuit of trying to get a few bigger fish. The weeds were massive and had a ton of bait under them. The dolphin were eating almost everything we threw at them including live bait that we were catching under the weeds. It rained from 630am until 830am when we finally decided to just head towards the inlet and luckily it ended up being a perfect day and was very calm! No fishing on Sunday this week as Carrie and I headed to Key Largo to do some snorkeling since we could not snorkel with the bull sharks being a menace.

July 4 2014 Offshore Fishing Report Palm Beach

SHARKS! Bull sharks everywhere. Bonita everywhere. Was really a challenge to find weeds this weekend and there were no cobia around the bull sharks surprisingly. Still had a fun day on the water with Carrie, Matt and Joyce. Managed to catch a Kingfish that we let get away after Matt tried to gaff his first fish. We had a few bite offs from the sharks and maybe a king or two but overall we could have caught 100 bonita but gave up after a handful. The sailfish snacks that Matt brought didn't do the trick but its bound to happen soon just from pure luck!