Average week with a fish of a lifetime !

Early April, we had the pleasure to host a group of very friendly English guys. The week was pretty average: it does get much better and sadly it also get worse. Strong swells for the first half made the inshore fishing difficult, so the guys mostly had fun on small tunas, silk snappers, amberjack and groupers. A lot of jigging, as always when the water nearshore is stirred up by large waves. When the swell died the roosters started to show, but most were biting short. Some good fun on jack crevalle was also had by the group. Overall, a pretty decent amount of fish, but not so many big ones, although various were lost. Interestingly, the guys got to fought a goliath grouper for about 25 minutes before the leader hit a rock. Our captain says it is definitely the biggets fish he's seen on speed-jigging gear and believe the fish had to be over 400 pounds. Given the experience he has reeling in groupers up to 100 pounds, we won't argue with him on that one.

Fish of the week was a beauty of an Almaco jack, caught by Jason and weighted on the beach at 100 pounds. Unfortunately the brave thing fought to exhaustion and could not be released. What a fish !