Re: Hawaiian SeaCraft
It's hard to believe thats started as a 23'??
The details vary in the states depending on where you're located....you could get lots of different replies. I'm in Charleston, SC and here to go for pelagics you have to get to the "ledge" where the water drops off to more than 100ft....go deep pretty quickly off the shelf. The usual suspects are wahoo, tuna (yellowfin and blackfin), dorado, billfish. In the winter it's snapper and grouper. The main dorado bite is april, may and june. To get there is about 50-60 miles one way. Fish aren't huge. Average dorado are probably in the teens with some into the thirties and the really lucky ones getting the 50lbers. The state record Blue Marlin was caught last year...881lbs.
The tuna are sub-100lbers....both YFT and BFT....at least on average.
In NC the huge blackfin tuna come near shor in the winter....those brutes get huge. In the northeast they go way offshore to the "canyons" for the usual suspects.
Off the east coast of Fl (Miami) you can catch billfish and
dolphin within site of land. And then there's the gulf of mexico with lots of artificial reefs and oil rigs.
Maybe someone else can comment on the left coast....
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