The fishing is red hot but the weather is not!

Pictured here are Georgie and Kyle Armas with a huge wahoo that was caught right out of Hillsboro Inlet a few days back. These boys were able to put some major numbers of fish in the boat before the weather turned sour in the afternoon. That has been the trend all week, so if you are fishing this weekend, please keep an eye on the radar.

This fish was the first bite of the day for the local boat "Outpost," captained by Scott Sansone from SJS Mechanical. This wahoo ate the short planer rod bait about 100 feet behind the boat. Wahoo are attracted to the sound and sight of the boat, and most of the time, the bigger wahoo eat the first thing they see behind the boat. Don’t be afraid to fish your bait relatively short.

If you are fishing for tuna, it is actually the opposite, as tuna love to feed on baits way, way back in the clean water.

Local recreational anglers, as well as the charter fleet, put up big catches of not only wahoo, but mahi as well. The mahi bite was the best it has been in years! Earlier this week, most of the fish were being caught in around 1,000 feet of water, which is a few miles offshore.

There were some beautiful north-to-south weed lines that looked like something from Costa Rica. These weed lines were very organized and thick and were holding plenty of fish. Lots of boats were catching up to 20 fish per vessel.

The great thing was that the size of the fish was relatively large for this area. They were not undersized fish, with most of them ranging in weight between 4 and 12 pounds, which is the perfect eating size!

Remember that the size limit for mahi is 20 inches to the fork of the tail, and the limit is five per person or 30 fish per boat. Hopefully, the great fishing will last through the weekend.

Get tight!

RJ Boyle

Tune in to Big 105.9 for the Papa’s Pilar Fishing Report with RJ Boyle and Paul Castronovo on Friday mornings at 6:15 a.m.