Any Tips on fishing north of Marsh??

[fishndiver]

I am a canadian trout fisherman with little salt water fishing experience...Well I am head down on Friday to try my luck on a self guided fishing trip for 5 days...trolling last year we hooked up with a 90lb yellow tail and a 40 lb Wahoo (sharks took off a few pounds on the wahoo)...we did not do well on the reefs chumming for grouper and snapper..Any tips like chumming recipes, location, depths, type of terminal tackel, bait type, best cay locations...best trolling areas, depths,speed etc...which fish to target.....etc..

Thanks for any tips

Barry

[Henz]

I would suggest that you hire a professional guide for the first day and learn from his knowledge. its well worth the $$.

[George]

Yellow FIN tuna -- not yelloTail snapper

[Knockdown]

Wahoo this time of year is top on the list. Hi speed troll heavy lures zigzagging the drop off.

For bottome fishing....try to find a local guy to hop on the boat and show you a few pointers. Conch (if attainable) is great chum bait. Try catching little yellowtail snapper on light spin tackle with small hook and little weight. These are good eating and also good grouper bait on heavier tackle.

Good luck! and hope the wind dies down for ya.

We were just there and it blew 20+ all four days....but we still had a blast.

[fishndiver]

Yes, yellow fin tuna, sorry for the error:o , but being a trout angler any fish over 10lbs and i get excited:p .

thanks for the info. i agree with hiring the pro but the others are tough minded and like to do it alone...so any more tips would be great..

[George]

Wahoo is the offshore sportfish of choice -- assuming you can get outside. Today was the first opportunity in over a week.
Ballyhoo is very scarce so you will need to rely on lures -- for wahoo you will want deep diving lures. Troll with them way, way back. I was out today to get fish for meat -- mutton snapper, yellowtail snapper. 3 hour and enough fish for a couple of weeks.

[fishndiver]

Thanks for the info George, Nice catch on the meaty fish, i am very interested in fishing for these as we will rely on our catch to feed 4 of us..and wahoo,tuna and others are not allways caught...what did you use,were, how deep etc...?

[momshell]

You should also check out the new fishing regulations. I have someone down there looking into things for us because things have just gotten a bit tighter- new regulations just went into effect.

[fishndiver]

Yes i read the short discription of new regs. posted yesturday..