Bait: Ballyhoos and sardines

temp: 64 degrees

Water depth: 120-500ft

What's biting: Mahi Mahi, wahoo, tuna fish, sailfish, barracuda, snapper, trigger fish, amberjack, Cobia

Good afternoon from Drop Down Sport Fish Charters located here in the beautiful town of Saint Augustine Florida. It’s that time of year to get offshore with some big jet head lures, big reels and let’s do some high speed trolling for wahoo!! January and February months are a known time of year to troll offshore for dinosaur wahoo in St. Augustine Florida. Fish upward of 70lbs are common and a few monsters over 100lbs are caught every year offshore fishing northeast Florida. Drop Down Sport Fish Charters trolls both ways offshore when bait fishing and high speed trolling. I’ve caught wahoo both ways, but the differences between trolling baits and high speed lures are the bites. When trolling offshore with ballyhoos at 7 knots you are in the trolling speed for most pelagics to strike. Such as mahi, tuna fish, sailfish, marlin, amberjack, Cobia, barracuda and yes wahoo. So as you can see you can get a lot of bites and a variety of deepsea pelagics. As when you high speed troll big giant lures at 12-15 knots, the only fish that are gonna track it down and eat is a big wahoo, possibly a monster mahi-mahi. That’s it. So when you high speed offshore it limits you to not nearly as many bites but the ones that you do get are usually the right ones. It can be productive or very boring. If you are in St. Augustine Florida and want to offshore fish January or February give us a call on Drop Down Sport Fish Charters and let’s go fishing!!!

Big wahoo Offshore fishing on Drop Down Sport Fish Charters in St.Augustine Florida