Happy New Year! I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday season, with that behind us, it’s back to fishing.
Kingfish, sailfish, and wahoo, that’s what we need to talk about! This is the time of year for these fish to be moving around a lot looking for the bait fish in the water. It’s time to get your gear ready and target these fish; they will be in depths anywhere from 50 to 150 feet of water. Make sure your reels have plenty of line on them. If not, replace it because you never know when that 60 lb. wahoo is going to take the bait.
January is here and so is the colder weather. Some of the fish are going to be moving out to deeper waters, so you are going to travel further to find the game fish. Continue to look for weed lines and other floating debris that the storms have brought in closer to shore.
I don’t even want to talk about the winds, but the bottom fishing bite has been fantastic and I look for that to continue through January. As you remember, grouper season is closed till April, catch and release is all we can do. If you are looking to get some amberjacks, you are going to have to run out to the 180 feet mark. Make sure to take plenty of bait because the sharks will take most of it along with the amberjack.
Moving closer to the beaches, the grouper bite has been hit or miss at times. When you do find them, be patient as they will bite your bait and then it’s “game on” not” fish on”!
In closing, I want to remind you all to be safe on the water at all times, as this time of year the seas are always rougher.