Greetings from captain Tommy Tinacci.
Fishing on board the brand new ahi spirit has been very successful. As you may already know, January, February and March are prime bottom fishing months for all of us here in Sarasota. I have been having very fishfull 8 and 10-hour trips onboard the ahi spirit. Big groupers and amberjacks have been hitting the decks. The amberjacks have been in the 25-50lb ranges with a couple topping the scales at 60lbs. We have also been catching red groupers in the 15- 25lb range. These 8 and 10 hour trips will catch you all the amberjacks you want in addition to 5- 15 really big keeper grouper. This is more fish then I could ever need. The amberjacks we feed on the surface with large baitfish, and the groupers have been taking dead sardines on the bottom. I have been finding most of the action on the grouper in about 120feet of water on hard, patchy rock/coral bottom. I use about 30lb test and a medium action conventional rod with is maxed every time you get one on. One could still consider it light tackle, even though it is a bit larger equipment needed to get these fish up from the bottom.
As far as the shorter trips are concerned, 4 and 6 hour trips have been seeing lots of Spanish mackerel, key west grunts, and mangrove snappers. I would say that a 4-hour trip has been seeing about 70 fish over the rail for 4 persons. Not bad and definitely a normal trip for us. Most 4 hour trips have been able to get at least one keeper grouper out of the lot of shorts and 20- 30 keeper snappers. That has been the story since I last did my report. Not much has changed except for the more mild weather. The seas have been calm all the way out and the boat is running strong. Thank you and be well. Capt Tommy Tinacci.
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