Offshore Abaco in June will produce a steady mahi-mahi bite. You can find them in weed lines and under floating debris, and keep eyes in the sky for the frigate birds—they can lead you to fish. Keep your eyes out for schools of yellowfin and blackfin offshore. Trolling small cedar plugs and other skirted lured will produce bites.
The billfish bite will be very good in June. Troll in the 500-to-2500 feet range. Use squid teasers and mullet dredges to bring them into the spread.
Trolling rigged ballyhoo with smoker heads and chuggers will produce the bites for mahi. Naked baits and artificial lures that creates lots of action will all draw the attention of billfish to your spread, so be prepared. Thirty-to-eighty-pound gear is best for trolling offshore. Try adding some trolling weights (32-to-48 ounce) to some lines to help track baits a bit deeper in the water.
When the offshore bite is slow, June can be a great month for bottom fishing. Inshore fishing can produce yellowtails, mutton snapper and grouper. Mutton fish should begin to school on the next full moon.
Grouper season is open and vertical jigging metal jigs in 80-to-200 feet can produce rockfish and grouper. Bottom fishing from 20-to-50 feet of water with squid will produce bites. You can also try slow trolling the reef and grass bars with Yo-Zuri/Rapala diving plugs.
June is a great month to fish in Abaco for your chance of taking multiple spices offshore and inshore and enjoying some of the beautiful scenery and weather.
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