Blackfin tuna and more
 

I had an offshore trip with 4 guys that brought all their own rods and reels. Once out at the shrimp boats we got into bonito immediately. I wanted to keep some for bait and my customers wanted to keep some for the box. Although no yellowfin were in the area we were in we did find a few blackfin.

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We were having trouble keeping the bait out of the bonito's mouth. Every now and then a blackfin would come aboard.

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Through out the day we also had to battle several sharks not only keeping the bait away from them but keeping our catch from getting eaten by them.

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The talk on the radio was only a few blacks being caught and only 1 or 2 yellowfin with no great size. Before it got too late in the day I gave then the option of looking for some other fish of staying out there for another 2 hours.

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With a few blackfin and a good amount of bonito we headed in for some mangrove action. I tied up to a rig I knew has a lot of mangrove on it and started chumming them out. We had a bunch of small ones just barely legal and good size ones also. The one surprise was a beautiful lane snapper.

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Another fish of interest was a very large Spanish mackerel. They also wanted to keep blue runners so when all was said and done I came in with a good box of fish and they went home with 2 coolers full of fish.

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