Mudhole Mahi Prospecting

[Gerry Zagorski]

Originally Posted by Brewlugger

Looking at the Sat shots. Looks like some nice clean water pushed in all the way to monster ledge. It was dirty there last week. I'm thinking there should be some Mahi on the pots along the west wall of the mudhole.

Saw and was thinking the same thing Brew . Would love to see some better water to the west and the north of the Monster though... Way more pots there and the last 2 years we didn't get squat at the Monster... All our fish were to the west and north.

Shot below with the Monster circled courtesy of www.ripcharts.com

[Kilnfish]

Was out 7/26 started trolling about 10miles north of mud hole. Picked up a small king mackerel. Water was 75 and clear blue. Headed northeast 10 miles near a weather bouy. Water was 77 degrees greenish but very clear, It was loaded with chicks. Couldn’t get them to bite. Tons of bait around, flying fish, small tuna seen jumping. Don’t know what I’m doing wrong. But threw everything at the mahi and they wanted nothing to do with it.

[Bent Rod]

This is what I have been doing the past two weeks. Work the pots on the east side of the mud hole or West side below shark river . Look for clean water.
Troll feathers 1 ft off the pots . If you hit have them. Head back and work them with spinning gear. There out there along with Cobia ! The ugly the pot the better,

Good luck !

[Kilnfish]

Originally Posted by Bent Rod

This is what I have been doing the past two weeks. Work the pots on the east side of the mud hole or West side below shark river . Look for clean water.
Troll feathers 1 ft off the pots . If you hit have them. Head back and work them with spinning gear. There out there along with Cobia ! The ugly the pot the better,

Good luck !

I did troll around the bouy and one took half of my ballyhoo. I was thinking about putting my speaders with feathers out but never did. One thing that really surprised me is the communication on the radio, guys giving their location out. That seems to never happen in the jersey waters. Lots of life out there, seems to be the right spot at the right time.

[Gerry Zagorski]

Originally Posted by Kilnfish

Was out 7/26 started trolling about 10miles north of mud hole. Picked up a small king mackerel. Water was 75 and clear blue. Headed northeast 10 miles near a weather bouy. Water was 77 degrees greenish but very clear, It was loaded with chicks. Couldn’t get them to bite. Tons of bait around, flying fish, small tuna seen jumping. Don’t know what I’m doing wrong. But threw everything at the mahi and they wanted nothing to do with it.

Had that happen to us once and it was suggested to throw top water poppers at them. Sounds like you were in the right area with blue water, seeing all that bait and flying fish. Haven’t seen the flying fish in quite sometime.

Based on your description seems like you might save been around the LI Weather Buoy??

[Brewlugger]

Originally Posted by Gerry Zagorski

Had that happen to us once and it was suggested to throw top water poppers at them. Sounds like you were in the right area with blue water, seeing all that bait and flying fish. Haven’t seen the flying fish in quite sometime.

Based on your description seems like you might save been around the LI Weather Buoy??

They get lockjaw sometimes. We had some days they wouldn't budge off the pots for anything. Someone told me they will never pass on a filefish bait? Never tried it myself.

[Capt. Lou]

Sometimes u can get them to eat killies !

[Kilnfish]

Originally Posted by Gerry Zagorski

Had that happen to us once and it was suggested to throw top water poppers at them. Sounds like you were in the right area with blue water, seeing all that bait and flying fish. Haven’t seen the flying fish in quite sometime.

Based on your description seems like you might save been around the LI Weather Buoy??

Yea that sounds about right. I’d have to look at the chart plotter to confirm. I’m pretty sure it was the LI weather buoy. The water was greenish but very clear. Loaded with mahi. This was also my first time using roffs. They give too many locations. But they did have the water color dead on.

[dfish28]

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[Gerry Zagorski]

First hint of any blue water I've seen in the Mudhole in a long time just showed up in today's shot at the Glory Hole. I hope it creeps further north like it usually does... Never had much luck at the Glory.