Even though the passing tropical depressions, Hanna, Ike, and family have kept us at home for the most part, when we do have boats out, all anglers are having a great time with very good sized WAHOO, some BIG yellowfin, and enough DORADO bites to keep the grill smokin'. Yo-Zuri bonito lures in red/black and yellowfin colors are taking all species. One long(4th wave) and the other on the 2nd wave are the meal ticket. I've been dragging a Yo-Zuri Surface Cruiser, blue/pink/white, off the rigger and that lure is just about bare of paint but it keeps catching fish. I put a 2-ft. wire leader in front of all lures to keep from being cut off. Run a feather, yellow/green, off the other rigger. Black marlin are on the Hannibal Bank and at Montuosa Island, where slow-trolled, feather-caught live bonitos will get you bit. Even a few sails around to mix things up. Snapper and corvina continue very good inshore, both around the islands and in the estuaries, and I recently stopped to drift some live sardines over Roca Bandera and was into a school of very nice sized AFRICAN POMPANO. Every drift had me on a fish. Awesome for awhile, until I ran out of bait. Then dropped a butterfly jig , pink/glitterwhite, and probably could have filled the boat , but went catch and release until I couldn't feel my arms.
troycreasy