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ISTIOPHORUS: THE MYSTERIOUS SAILFISH

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he sailfish is one of the most commonly caught billfish. Due to its proclivity for shallower coastal waters and frequency of ascension to the surface, the odds of catching one of these beauties can be much greater than for other billfish. There is little scientific certainty about the mysterious behavior of sailfish. They exhibit a general migratory pattern throughout the year, but they often break their own rules and show up unexpectedly. Summer sailfish catches are generally more associated with the Gulf of Mexico, yet they do appear on the Atlantic coast this time of year, as well. Sailfishing in the Florida Keys is usually a late autumn and early spring

bite. It can be an absolute catching frenzy. However, in July, following the passage of tropical storm Elsa, sailfish were seen tailing at the surface, cruising the waves along a strong current line off of Marathon Key. It was a bizarre and welcomed phenomenon. The conditions that followed the storm created a concise current line, with greener nearshore waters touching the blue water, and a milky powder-blue highway running down the center. Sailfish were spotted swimming east to west at the top of the waves, and seemed to dive deeper to circle back. The locals are no strangers to this phenomenon that occurs in the Keys. Though the time of year may be unpredictable, anglers are always ready to make the most of it. This type of fishing requires polarized sunglasses and a tower boat. Slowly creeping through the powder blue highway, scan the waves for black torpedo shapes or blobs that resemble black garbage bags. Hunt for the opportunity to sight cast live baits. Without the visual vantage of a tower, trolling lures or bump trolling live bait may be more productive than trying to spot them from deck level. Sailfish truly are an incredible and unpredictable species. Very few have been successfully tagged, and few have held a tag long enough to transmit much information. Of those tagged for up to a year, their patterns were generally erratic. They seem to be extremely transient, foraging and spawning in many different coastal regions, predictably unpredictable, like majestic aquatic gypsies. Commonalities in their behavior are that they primarily stay within a water temperature of approximately 80 degrees; they mostly stay near the surface, rarely diving below 300 feet; and they exhibit extremely curious evening routines. All of the transmissions showed sailfish spending the evening within 30 feet of the surface, descending briefly before sunrise and sunset. They were also observed to be active nightly, seemingly unaffected by lunar phases. Help uncover the mysteries of sailfish by reporting tagged fish or by visiting billfish.org to purchase a tagging kit. Remember to handle sailfish with care and revive them before release when necessary. Capt. Quinlyn Haddon fishes with Blue Magic Charters out of Marathon, Fla. Check her out her Instagram @CaptainQuinlyn, her website CaptainQuinlyn.com, or call (504) 920-6342.

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or Matt Metelsky, daddy-daughter time with his 17-year-old is a little more involved than a trip to the ice cream parlor. Matt’s daughter Lily is a rising high school senior. She loves nothing more than waking up at 2 a.m. to run 85 miles off Virginia Beach and troll the edge of the Continental Shelf with her dad. In late June, the duo fished the Virginia Beach Tuna Tournament, where Lily placed second in the Lady Angler division with a yellowfin that weighed 39.9 pounds. But that’s not her biggest tuna to-date. Her heaviest yellowfin weighed 44 pounds. She caught it last summer, and at 5-foot-4 and 115 pounds, it took her about 15 minutes to haul it in stand-up with a belt. “I don’t know. We do wood work on the side, so we load wood, and I guess that gives you some back strength,” Lily offered as explanation for feats of fishing strength. “We always stay active. With Dad, it’s work hard, play harder.” Lily’s strength and stamina are a given considering she qualified and is working as an oceanfront lifeguard at Virginia Beach this summer. Matt, however, has another explanation for his daughter’s skill, as well as her love for this hard-core style of fishing. Lily was 5 years old when Matt purchased his Contender 25 with twin 150s. At a tender age, Lily cut her teeth going toe-to-toe with hard-pulling spadefish in 50 feet of water, 20 miles offshore. “I’m thinking the technique she picked up with those spades when she was little just kind of morphed over into the tuna,” Matt said. “It really amazes

me she is able to battle those things stand-up.” Lily began joining Matt for long days offshore when she turned 13. She was 15 the summer of 2019 when she was first physically able to handle a yellowfin—a 26-pounder—by herself. But pumping and reeling aren’t Lily’s only deck duties. She helps rig and bait and steers the boat while her dad deploys an eight-rod spread on the Gulf Stream. Last Jan. 11, she manned the helm while Matt battled a 550-pound bluefin. When the handle on the 50w reel broke under the stress, it was Lily’s idea to improvise with a screwdriver and electrical tape to eventually land that fish. The peak yellowfin season is June and July out of Rudee Inlet. Matt and Lily make five or six trips a summer, often with friends. Normal days consist of two or three tuna, some bonita and mahi, and occasionally a white marlin. Two or three times a year, January and February bluefin trips are just for the two of them. There aren’t many people interested in waiting on one big bite in brutal mid-winter conditions, anyway. “She’s just tough as nails,” Matt said of his daughter. “I don’t know how else to describe it. She’s just tough.” Lily doesn’t seem to perceive any hardship. She considers herself lucky to be able to spend time with her dad on the water. “When we’re out there on the boat, it’s just so peaceful,” she said. “I pretty much sleep the whole time. When that reel goes off, that’s my alarm.” For more action from Virginia Beach, visit coastalanglermag.com/tidewater-obx/.

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t the mid-point of the Florida Panhandle, St. Andrew Bay dominates the map of Bay County, flanking Panama City on three sides. It’s a 107-square-mile inshore playground that bustles with all sorts of watersports during the heavy tourism months. But there’s a quieter side to St. Andrew. With access points spread throughout Bay County, skinny water is where it’s at for redfish anglers. The water is clear and maintains predictably high salinity thanks to limited freshwater inflow. There are vast prairies of spartina grass, cut through with channels, as well as acres of sand, mud and grass flats. Much of it is accessible only to shallow-draft vessels, and therein is the allure for folks seeking respite 2 FLORIDA

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from party pontoons and jet skis. When you’re in less than 2 feet of water, the only other boats you’ll see are kayaks, paddleboards and flats skiffs. “I fell in love with inshore fishing and kayaking here because of the ease and lower expense,” said Josh Damon, who hails from Fountain, Fla., about 25 miles north of Panama City. “I enjoy the tranquility and access to areas big boats can’t reach.” The fishing is good, too. Damon is a passionate angler who enjoys inshore tournaments, so he specializes in redfish on artificials. He said a good day might results in five or six reds from 18 to 24 inches, with a few trout or flounder thrown into a mixed bag. He fishes from a paddle-powered kayak, which is perfectly at home in the one-and-a-half-foot depths he prefers. Redfish are comfortable and free from predatory threats in extreme shallows, and it’s also where the food is. St. Andrew reds grow fat on mullet, mud minnows, pinfish and a variety of other little baitfish. With good visibility, sight fishing is a good tactic. This time of year, there’s usually a good topwater bite in the mornings and evenings, and walking baits are a favorite of many anglers. Damon, however, fishes soft plastics almost exclusively. With tackle modifications, they can be worked across the top, bounced on the bottom or fished anywhere in between. They’re delicate enough for sight casting and also make great chunk-and-wind search baits. “Aside from the versatility of a soft-plastic bait, I don’t want a fish flopping around in the kayak with six hooks,” Damon said. At St. Andrew, Damon’s go-to lure is a 4-inch D.O.A. C.A.L. Shad Tail rigged on a 1/8-ounce 4/0 Screw Lock jig head. He likes the Houdini color and dresses it with Kings Stank Stick, a scent product he said increases hookups. He fishes variations of this set-up, but this basic rig gets the job done. For safety reasons as well effective fishing, planning is key. Damon studies wind and tide before selecting a put-in on a given day. With the whole bay to choose from, he’s looking for a location that will provide long drifts over productive water. Follow Josh Damon’s adventures on his Facebook page Josh Damon’s Inshore Fishing. For information on kayaking the Panama City area, check out Sunjammers at www.sunjammers.com.

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targeted by anglers in multiple ways in different locations. Here are a few options to try. I’ve utilized all three methods and found success with each. • Perhaps the coolest strategy is wade fishing in the dark. Large trout and redfish move unbelievably shallow under the cover of the night sky, and tossing a topwater plug on the flats can result in exciting explosions. I typically wade in the dark without lights, other than a headlamp for changing lures or unhooking fish. With vision impaired, your sense of hearing is on high alert. Nighttime is quiet on the water, which makes the commotion of a topwater take startling. It can give the impression that a fish is larger than it really is. That’s part of the excitement of a topwater bite! For safety reasons, I only wade at night in areas I know well and have fished many times. • Another way to beat the heat is to focus on dock lights. This can be done from the dock, a kayak or a boat. Many canal homes have lights, both under water and above the surface. Lights attract baitfish, which in-turn attract the gamefish we target. Trout, reds and snook are all drawn to baitfish around lights at night. I like to target these areas with smaller lures. In this situation, I’ve had a lot of success throwing my Knockin Tail Lures, which are soft-plastic paddletails with a built-in rattle. Small, lipped hard baits can also be very productive around canal lights. I prefer natural colors, with some shade of white or clear and some silver mixed in. • Fish also feed around rock jetties at night. The setup for this bite requires a little more work, but it can yield terrific results. When jetty fishing, I bring a generator and two 1,500 watt stage lights. These areas typically have more current, so I fish slightly larger lipped hard lures, but I still go with the smallest lure I can work properly in the current. I stick with the same color pattern as mentioned earlier. The channel and surf side of the rocks can both be productive depending on the tide, water clarity and bait presence. I recommend pointing one light in each direction until you determine which areas have the best conditions. Night fishing definitely brings new challenges, but it can offer some of the best catching of the summer. Remember, safety first and don’t fish alone. Capt. Michael Okruhlik is the inventor of Knockin Tail Lures, Controlled Descent Lures and the owner of www.MyCoastOutdoors.com.

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he dolphin are here and they are hungry. The smaller dolphin of June and July have grown from 3 to 5 pound fish into 6 to10 pounders, some even bigger. Dolphin grow extremely fast and are constantly feeding. When dolphin reach this size, they break from their schools of 50 or more fish and form into smaller hunting packs made up of 8 to10 fish. This makes for a lot more schools of dolphin around offshore and they are easier to find. These schools of dolphin gather around weedlines or patches and other floating debris as a place to find food or shelter from other predatory pelagic species. The secret to offshore dolphin fishing is covering territory. The more territory you can troll your lures over, the better chance you have to run over some fish. It’s a big ocean out there offshore and can seem almost like a desert, until you find a floating piece Nice eating size dolphin caught with of driftwood, or Fishing Headquarters. a weedline with birds working overhead. When you find good on live bait. Out in 400 something good to fish next to, feet of water, gray tilefish are all make sure to pull some deep over the bottom. You can catch running lures by it too. Wahoo these by dropping a multi hook typically hang around floating rig, baited with squid and catch debris offshore as well, but they them 3 at a time. There is a lot of stay much deeper and rarely variety out there this month. This come near the surface. Pulling is the last great month for action a planer or downrigger bait by it before we get into our fall big will often yield a nice wahoo to game fishing season, so get out there and catch some fish. Tight compliment your catch. Sportfishing closer in on the lines everyone. reefs is nearly non stop action. Bonitos are everywhere on the reefs. They are so abundant that I CAPT. ROD ROYDHOUSE actually have to try to avoid them New Lattitude Sportfishing sometimes to give the anglers (954) 707-2147 www.NewLattitude.com a rest. Trolling the reef is great

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took the family and the Family Jewell for a vacation over the 4th of July week down to Marathon. Tropical Storm Elsa cost us a day and half of boating time, but we were in the Keys so we didn’t suffer too bad. We rented a really nice house in Sombrero Beach with a chilled pool, dockage for my brother’s boat and ours, an ice machine and ten minute access to the ocean. We did some light fishing the first few days catching some flag yellowtail, Spanish mackerel, a few Mahi and kept the kids busy with dockside mangroves. Thursday was the day we set aside for our full day offshore to target swordfish and our wives would be taking the kids to Key West for the day. A last minute change to the agenda had me flying solo. No problem, I’ve done this before, but have never connected while targeting swords solo. Up before my 6am alarm, I made some breakfast and some sandwiches, topped off the coolers and was off the dock by 6:45. I cleared out of Sisters Creek and pointed the Family Jewell due south. With 31 miles ahead to the sword grounds, I thought to myself, I really need autopilot. I recently heard a story about someone’s father saying, “We won’t get there until we get there”. It was explained to me to mean that if you don’t stick with the plan, you will never get to your destination. This rang in my ears as I passed some nice sargassum patches and a few flocks of birds. I will admit to stopping once. Once I reached the grounds, I started to get everything together. Not having another set of hands, I knew I needed to prepare for everything that could happen. I already had my safety gear readied, but I now needed to set up for swordfishing. Before even deploying the bait, I went through my action plan and considered the “what if’s” and “how bout’s”. I set up both harpoons and cleared the deck to eliminate any potential tangles. Big gaffs, check. Tail rope, check. Gloves, check. Tape measure ready, check. Lead, lights and bait, check. I had my first bait in the water by 8:30am. There wasn’t a boat in sight and the radio was eerily quiet. I made 3 long drifts and didn’t even get a sniff. I decided to make an 8 mile run to another area that I had fished before with a little luck. When I pulled up there were 2 other boats there. I thought this looks promising. I set up and didn’t have any bites on my first two drifts. My plan was to fish until 1:30 then start heading in to do some deep dropping. At 1:15, I made the call to set up for one last

solo drift. I ran out set up on a different line and sent down a fresh bait. Most of the day I had a live pilchard out behind the boat, but recently brought it in because the weeds were becoming a pain. I left the bait on the hook and in the live well ready to go. Not five minutes later I saw a nice mahi charging the boat all lit up. Got the first one hooked up and baited a second. I was doubled up baby! Got them both in the boat while simultaneously doing a little boat driving to keep the sword rod vertical. I did a quick bottom check with the rod and noticed the bait was closer to the bottom than I wanted. I brought it up 100 feet and started cleaning the mahi mess. I turned around and the rod looked like my bait was resting on the bottom. I thought that was weird, so I brought it up 200 feet and got the lead back and back to normal. Then the line went slack again. I was finally tight! The fish put up a decent

fight, but for the most part cooperated. It stayed scoped out and even was tame while getting the 8 pound lead off the line. Once I could see color I knew it was a sword and not a shark or other bycatch. It’s bill broke the surface and it looked small, so I decided not to throw the dart. Several left handed circles, a few hard reverse rights later, I had it on the surface sliding to me. Gloves were on, bill in hand and over the rail! I did a quick tape to see 53 inches. High fives all around! Well, kind of. Being prepared and allowing luck to take over almost always works. It turned out to be quite the ride home.

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