We had a text book July with all the usual suspects hanging out in all the usual spots. Inside of 10 miles we had our king mackerel, sharks, tarpon and goliath grouper holding in the bait for some species and along structure for others. The main reefs were great for live bait trolling up the Summer saving king mackerels and on occasion it would give up a nice cobia, mahi, sailfish or black fin tuna. Other than the 4 day red snapper, a few amberjack and a 2 day mangrove bite the bottom fishing was pretty much dead like it almost always is in the summer. Blue water trolling was pretty terrible because of all of the scattered grass and overall low volume of fish. We never did take any trips or hear of anyone doing any trips to the other side of the stream so……
