There were 3 in our group that booked the 6 AM, six hour shipwreck charter with Vincent.ย Arrived at 5:45 with time to get coffee from the adjacent restaurant while Vincent prepared his boat for departure.
We traveled for about 15 minutes to our first fishing spot where we trolled for primarily ribbon fish, fishing among about 10 other boats.ย We worked this spot for about 20 to 30 minutes, landing two ribbon fish. We then headed about 6 more miles to the shipwreck fishing spot.
We learned from Vincent, that the โshipwreckโ we were fishing above, was actually an old 440-ft barge that had been purposely sunk at that location to provide fish habitat/structure for fishermen to utilize.
We spent about three hours at the shipwreck site and initially had success, catching a nice 10 pound amberjack as well as a triggerfish.ย Fishing slowed as we made repeated attempts to catch fish by drifting over the barges, using squid and cut baitfish as bait.ย Captain Vincent worked very hard to try to get fish in the boat, but we met with limited success.
We departed from the barges, probably earlier than normal due to the inactivity, and Captain Vincent tried to get us onto fish by drifting in areas where fish were appearing on the monitor.ย We did get a few bites, but were unable to land anything.ย We continued back towards the dock, stopping along a line in the water created by the tides, and trolled this line for 10 or 15 minutes with no success.ย The Captain also had us stop for a few minutes in the region we were at earlier, fishing for ribbonfish, but we were unable to entice a bite.
It was a great day on the water, and it would have been a fantastic day if we had boated a few more fish, but sometimes the fish just start biting and unfortunately, this was one of those times.
There were 3 in our group that booked the 6 AM, six hour shipwreck charter with Vincent.ย Arrived at 5:45 with time to get...