Saturday Fishing Club 19 June 2010

Saturday Fishing Club 19 June 2010

This last Saturday the students of the Saturday Fishing Club in Boynton Beach asked if they could show me something new, and wanted to try their hands at freshwater fishing again. They directed me to the pond across the road from Mangrove Park by the Boynton Beach Marina. We grabbed a few buckets of worms and headed out. The fishing was hot right off the bat again. We fished with bobbers and weights and found the bobbers worked better at the pond. The students caught about 50 fish an all were released. We caught Bowfins, catfish, bluegills, small bass, and Mayan cichlids. We fished at the pond for a few hours, and then the kids headed to the boat ramp to continue fishing and caught snappers and grunts until they got tired.

Fishing Week of 7 June 2010 through 12 June 2010

This past week has been a big fishing week for us. There have been some nice size jack crevalles on the beach which we caught on Wednesday and Thursday using topwater plugs and white jigs. The jacks are cruising the shoreline in the surf chasing the little baitfish which have been around the last few weeks.

Saturday Fishing Club at the Boynton Beach Boat Ramp was like nothing the students have seen thus far. We fished with small cut pieces of squid, and the kids caught 137 snappers and grunts in a couple of hours. Once it got really hot and more boats started coming in we switched to freshwater fishing. Using live worms we caught a bunch of bluegills, and a couple of bowfin and catfish. It was an amazing day for all of us last Saturday, and the students all borrowed fishing rods so they can fish this week on their own.

Captain's Report 29 May and 1 June 2010

29 May 2010 Charter Fishing

With the moon having been almost full and up all night, we figure the kingfish had been feeding all night so we decided to head offshore about 8 miles where we had seen a current break on the satellite images. Capt Rich's hunch paid off and as we reached the current break we got our first dolphin bite. Right away we started chumming the water with sardines and we had the school around the boat for about 30 minutes. Along with all the dolphin caught we also caught a barracuda on the troll.

1 June 2010

As a graduation gift to the 2010 Seagull Academy graduates we headed out Tuesday morning to see what we could find. We set up our drift in front of the Boynton Beach Inlet and right away we found ourselves on a school of big blue-runners and remoras. Sadly the seas had been building slowly through the morning and it was time to head in. The graduates, some of whom had never been on a boat, had a ball on their fishing trip and intracoastal cruise.