Fishing off Cape Canaveral Florida
Chris Cameron from Fired up Charters
- January 8, 2013
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Hopefully everyone had a happy and safe new year. For those of you that were fortunate enough to get out on the 6 calm days we had between the gale force winds last month hopefully got on the fish. Being particularly partial to Kings, I have to say they were on fire. We were lucky enough to keep our clients on the fish all day. Every trip was a limit of our kingfish. Many fish were to the 35lb range.
We also released many other kings to grow and get bigger for next time. If you couldn’t find live bait don’t worry. Frozen Sardines and Cigar Minnows were working just fine. The standard double hook rigs, #4 wire with a pink/white duster were the ticket. On one of our trips, after hooking a few fish, I shut the motors off and we just drifted baits out the back and we were doubled up for a few hours.
In the mix of the chaos was Bonitos and Cobias. We switched the gear out to spinning tackle and just had a blast. We have been fishing the 80-90 foot ledges and reefs. And any wrecks in between all that. Speaking of Bonito…. Follow those shrimp boats. There stacked up behind the nets.
Triple Tail have been all over as well. Don’t leave the dock without a dozen shrimp. This has been an absolutely great season so far. Look for any floating debris and usually there’s a Trip under it. All the buoys have been holding there fair share as well. Just because they’re not on the first few sets doesn’t mean there not out farther. Use a live shrimp on a small jig head for best results. We also caught them on finger mullet and squid. Give each buoy at least 15 casts.
We worked a buoy the other day and before almost giving up we hooked the 10 lber that was there. While Triple Tail fishing be sure to have a Cobia rod very handy. We had several decent Cobes pop up while working the Channel. Cobia have also been showing up with the water temps that have been a perfect 71 degrees. Many free swimmers have been in the 55-foot ranges from Patrick up to D can area. Fish to 60lbs have been caught.
Mahi fishing has been ok. No record size fish but the boats that are getting on them are coming back with 4-8 fish and smaller gaffers. There Mainly fishing on the edge of the stream or any rips and weed lines you can find, Oh I almost forgot, The buoy. This time of year with the colder weather moving in you should see at least a Wahoo or a Sailfish. Using the Standard ballyhoo rigs or strip baits have all been producing.
This time of year you can expect good bottom fishing all the way in as close as 80 and 90 feet. If you can get through the Red Snapper you will finally see your grouper. I wish I could give you a bunch of detail but truth be told I’m not much of a bottom fisherman.
I hope this report helps everyone out. If you have any questions give us a shout. Thanks and have a great month of fishing. If you have any good pics that you want to share please send them into us as well. <BR><BR>
Thanks Chris from Fired up Charter's...
Capt. Chris Cameron
www.firedupcharters.com
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