Shared Delusion

We had bought some weird spotted sardines from SE Liquidators. We also stocked up on shrimp at O’Neils. Today was a pure surface action day.

We wstopped at the Betty Rose and it was covered in schools of barracuda - very odd behavior - I’ve not seen them school up before. We had a huge and i mean HUGE barracuda jump 5 feet out of the water just behind the boat - it cut a wire leader! We all saw the jump. It was incredible. The belly of ‘cuda bounced a little bit it was so fat. I’d estimate 5 feet long and much thicker than a football. We caught a little Tunny but it got cut in half

we left after that and planned on stopping at surface action but none appeared. We did see many flying fish between 40-60 feet deep. In fact we saw the most action south of the betty rose.

At 70 Feet, on the way to grouper country, we saw about 9 boats in a long line, so we stopped and drifted with the group. On a sardine! RJH caught a keeper Kingfish on the drop. It tangled our lines and I hand lined it in for the gaff. I had the idea that if this was good, 80 feet hard bottom would be better. So we left. Just off of the drift a few 100 yards was a lot of good hits on the bottom. We also say many school hitting the surface but we could not tell what they were.

The Grouper country at 80 feet was deviod of life on the bottom. We did see many small Mahi Schools but no other activity. We dropped by the Sheridan and not much was happening there either.

On the way back home, We stopped back at the betty rose and chummed with dead baits for 30 min with no takers.

Happy fishing, 
Eric