Good day with Sailfish

[wahoo33417]

Its that time of year when sailfish make their way through south Florida. Second photo is reviving a tired fish by taking him along with boat in gear until he is strong enough to kick away.

 

[SirGrady226]

Seas look a bit calmer out than what I had off Jupiter yesterday, my wife could only handle about an hour of fishing before we headed back in. Jupiter inlet was not pleasant when we headed out yesterday morning, never thought I'd have the boat totally airborne heading out.

 

[GEII]

Nice Pictures! How far do you need to go out to catch them this time of year?

 

[wahoo33417]

Sir Grady: We run out of Lake Worth Inlet. Oddly, we were off plane slogging our way out. Then in about 500' things sort of calmed down a bit. So we set up kite fishing in about 580'.

GEII: Yesterday was unusual to catch a sail that far out. More typically, I'd look for them between 90' - 200' feet or about 1- 3 miles out, depending on where you are.

 

[Fishtales]

Nice pics. Must be awesome to catch and release one.... Us NE folks are jealous.

 

[Island Pilot]

Awesome!!!!!

 

[Gianni]

Seas look a bit calmer out than what I had off Jupiter yesterday, my wife could only handle about an hour of fishing before we headed back in. Jupiter inlet was not pleasant when we headed out yesterday morning, never thought I'd have the boat totally airborne heading out.

I would never dare that inlet. It looks insane

 

[SirGrady226]

I would never dare that inlet. It looks insane

Out going tide and heavy seas are a recipe for disaster here, the bottom drops out and they stack up in front of you. I decided to gun it and keep the bow up, guess I gave it a bit too much launching completely out of the water. I bet it looked awesome from shore, but the landing was hard enough to rattle the bones. Looks like the 30 year old hull took it in stride, did it twice before getting out of the bad part. This 226 Seafarer with twins and a forward fuel tank tends to need more speed to keep just on plane, too fast for anything above 2 to 2-1/2 foot opposing seas and not beat things up. I'm not a fan of pounding things for very long.

Where people get in trouble on Jupiter Inlet is coming in on an outgoing tide, very easy to bury the bow and get broached by the wave behind. There are some pretty scary videos online of people losing there boats and close calls. Incoming tide has been pretty nice in my experience.

 

[Gianni]

Out going tide and heavy seas are a recipe for disaster here, the bottom drops out and they stack up in front of you. I decided to gun it and keep the bow up, guess I gave it a bit too much launching completely out of the water. I bet it looked awesome from shore, but the landing was hard enough to rattle the bones. Looks like the 30 year old hull took it in stride, did it twice before getting out of the bad part. This 226 Seafarer with twins and a forward fuel tank tends to need more speed to keep just on plane, too fast for anything above 2 to 2-1/2 foot opposing seas and not beat things up. I'm not a fan of pounding things for very long.

Where people get in trouble on Jupiter Inlet is coming in on an outgoing tide, very easy to bury the bow and get broached by the wave behind. There are some pretty scary videos online of people losing there boats and close calls. Incoming tide has been pretty nice in my experience.

Yes ive watched the videos and saw exactly what you said on the inbound with outgoing tides, very scary.

 

[wahoo33417]

That inlet needs an efficient, well maintained sand transfer plant on the north side. That would eliminate much of the sand bar.

The fear is that would also eliminate much of the littoral drift of sand to the south of the inlet. That is a reasonable fear.

Hence the sand transfer plant would have to be well maintained and the inlet would still require periodic dredging as do Lake Worth and South Lake Worth Inlets to the south.

In the end, it is an expensive proposition.