June 28 2014 Offshore Fishing Report Palm Beach

Carrie, Matt and I took out my Uncle Paul (aka Elder Biscuit) for an early morning trip in search for Paul's first ever Mahi. Within a few minutes of dropping a line in around a weedline, we had a small peanut hooked. We ended up catching about 20 small dolphin throughout the day but the big prize of the day was the 26lb Bull Dolphin that we hooked straight out of the inlet in 430' of water. Carrie had hooked up with a big dolphin but it spit the hook so she reeled in quickly and pitched the bait back out to the fish. Sure enough within seconds we had another monster back on the line. She passed the rod over to Elder Biscuit and the fight was on. While battling the dolphin we had numerous boats come over trying to mooch off our area but we were the only ones with an success, at least in that area. They were all trolling and we were pitching dead and cut bait at them. We even had several hooked on Rapala skitterwalk top water lures. Below are some pictures from the day. Conditions were fairly calm with winds picking up from the N/NE (a far cry from the ESE winds NOAA was calling for) as the day went on. Water temps were about 85 and the current was very strong. We also had the looming tropical mischief (future Hurricane Arthur) off the coast but was not yet affecting our weather. Weedlines were very numerous but there were a lot of scattered weeds making it less desirable to troll!