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Jupiter & Palm Beach Offshore Saltwater Fishing Report
Capt. Rob Mazzei
August 24, 2001
Jupiter - Saltwater Fishing Report
Kingfish Star, Dolphin, Wahoo and Sailfish Make Cameo Appearance
I obtained first hand info from Captain Joe Dobbins of Frequent Flyer Charters in Jupiter. He said incredible fishing for kings continues off Jupiter. I fished Sunday with Capt. Joe and caught two kings, all the bonito we wanted and missed one sailfish. That changed over the week. Kings have moved in where the bonito have been hanging around. 120-90 feet was loaded with bonito, is now the home of kingfish 10-40 lbs. Capt. Joe fished this morning and had two semi-smokers to 30 lbs. and many others in the 10-20 lbs. range, and did not see any bonito. They are finally starting to migrate on there way. Capt. Joe also part of the team at Grand Slam Sportfishing Supply, said some local guys "hell bent" on sailfish flew a kite and went 1 for 2 this morning.
Blue runners and sardines are still thick around Juno. For the larger kings use runners. When jigging bait you might want have a larger sabiki rig on board, the blue runners are much tougher than sardines and will mangle your rig. They make great bait for large kings, wahoo and sailfish. For sure sardines do as well, but the smaller fish won’t bother with runners. If I can, I always get a variety of bait.
Sargassum weed is thick, even inside the intracoastal. If you want to catch dolphin you will have run and gun or chum’um up around productive looking weedlines. You can troll but you’ll spend a lot of time reeling in and cleaning off your baits. One crew I now of caught there limit of mahi off a bundle of rope they found offshore.
My good friend Martin was out during the week and said he jumped off a 30+ lbs. dolphin that wouldn’t eat anything but a baby octopus he buys frozen at Publix. He swears by them for snapper bait. He said he saw a blue marlin free jumping in the area.
Wahoo are still biting good, and with the full moon coming you can bet they’ll still be biting. You must get out at sun-up to put they odds in your favor. Speed trolling with wire line is the best way to target the tigers of the sea
Weather’s been great, no excuse not to go. Send the wife to the mall and go fishing. Tropical activity has been quite. Let’s hope it stays that way.
Good luck! Capt. Rob
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