Offshore tilefish beatdown

[Chrisper4694]

Max and I got an invite out of left field to jump on with captain Chris D. And Rich to try and get on this hot tilefish bite. We poked a round for an early season tuna first, which didnt happen despite all the mammal and bird life, but the depths did not disappoint!

We fished 400-450ft and a few of the drifts were great action on goldens and bluelines. Bait rigs and jigs both worked. Id never tried tile fishing with a jig before and if anyone else here is curious about it, i didnt really need anything special....

i spooled up a smaller sized penn fathom with about 450yrds of #30 braid on a $60 shimano sarguaro rod , #40 fluoro leader and a 420g nomad knife style jig. Slathered it up with lip glu scent gel and put a tiny sliver of bluefish skin on the hook and it worked like a charm and was pretty cool compared to the classic 2lbs slab and bait rig.

Boat limit was acheived and delicious meals were enjoyed. We got some cool video too, mostly on the instagram account.

[Gerry Zagorski]

Wow nice catch! They’re now under on our Federal Fisheries Management so let’s hope they don’t screw it up like they have others…

[Slip It In]

Nice report!

We had the same gameplan last Saturday. We threw out the spread and marked some nice life and bait but no fish. Further out east we worked, the less life and bait we found.

Then we dropped down for tiles and it was lights out. Rigs and jigs, they ate it all. Only goldens, no blueline.

Hopefully the tuna fishing picks up soon. And fuel prices go down.

[Chrisper4694]

Originally Posted by Slip It In

Nice report!

We had the same gameplan last Saturday. We threw out the spread and marked some nice life and bait but no fish. Further out east we worked, the less life and bait we found.

Then we dropped down for tiles and it was lights out. Rigs and jigs, they ate it all. Only goldens, no blueline.

Hopefully the tuna fishing picks up soon. And fuel prices go down.

Yeah, i think only one particular spot had the bluelines, the rest were all goldens and one bluefish which made great fresh bait