Captain Temo Verboonen reports fantastic weather and superb sea conditions but a lack of anglers

Larry Edwards

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The area offers near 300 sportfishing boat opportunities and the typical fishing day can range from a handful, (5) to about 15 boats out, on any given day. As for the fishing, it remains pretty good, especially for sailfish and dorado and the best part is most of the dorado are 30-plus lbs. and they are biting the rigged trolling baits pretty well. A real plus for the fishing right now is the closeness to the Bay, about 5 miles off shore. The inshore action continues to be good for the jack cravalle, bonito and Sierras but lacked the roosterfish this past week.

IZ Climate:
Partly cloudy but warm and pleasant days with temperatures that ranged from 70 nights to 89 daytime highs and very light tropical surface breezes.

Sea Conditions:
Holding very stable right now and ranging between 82-83 degrees from the beach to 40 miles offshore and more. Water is clean close to shore and the billfish and dorado are close by in the clean waters.

Best Fishing Area:
Starting right at the 5-mile mark, the dorado are eagerly biting at the trolling baits and the fish are nice quality sizes in the 30-plus lb. ranges.

Best Lure/Bait:
The rigged trolling baits were working best for the offshore waters and live bait and poppers working well for the inshore waters.

Bait Supply:
Remains very good for both, fresh trolling baits and live bait.



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