Topsail Angler's Fishing Blog

Kings and Mahi

Wednesday, July 02, 2008

Gery of Hunter’s Haven Taxidermy and I headed out this morning about 7 on the hunt for some kings & Mahi. We headed first for the first set of boxcars to jig up some bait. We found bait there but it wasn’t very big and it took over an hour to get enough to fish for the day.

We tried several spots in the morning, stopping where we saw bait balls figuring kings would be nearby. we even saw a couple of kings sky but couldn’t get any takers. We talked to another boat that had caught 5 kings on cigar minnows. All we had so far was about 8 sharks. So finally we ditched the live bait rigs put on the hank brown rigs and some dead cigar minnows I had brought along.

Bingo! King on! We boated a few, lost a few then hooked up with a 10 pound mahi! Sweet! The boat fishing next to us hooked up and released a very nice sailfish!

We were about 12 miles offshore when we caught the kings and mahi. Oh yeah we caught one small barracuda along with all them sharks - all the sharks came on the downrigger - no kings on it so we finally stowed the downrigger and stuck to surface baits.

It was a beautiful day on the water and I always enjoy fishing with Gery!