Port Mansfield Offshore GoPro video (with a sailfish)

[Rounder]

Took a trip down south to Port Mansfield and put together another GoPro video. We went out deep on Saturday and trolled pretty much all day. Ended up catching a of couple wahoo, a small mahi, landed a sailfish and had a marlin on but it broke off. Sunday we just stayed in close in state waters for some snapper fishing as we had to make the long drive home to Houston that afternoon. The weather was great both days with less than 2 foot seas and it was less than that most of the time.

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1izwaGSu9z8"]Port Mansfield Offshore August 2015 - YouTube[/ame]

[deer99hunter]

Great video !! That got my blood pumping !!! Headed there this weekend And can't wait

[Killer]

Man that was great

[PBUCKSHOT]

Great video man! Really cool vid. The music was kick butt too. Mana is the jam

[AtTheWall]

Excellent conditions! Might have been a hair better on Saturday with a bit of chop on top. Looks like the bite was better with a bit of cloud cover?

[LuBowhunter]

Can you post the YouTube link? The embedded videos never work on my phone

[Rounder]

Excellent conditions! Might have been a hair better on Saturday with a bit of chop on top. Looks like the bite was better with a bit of cloud cover?

It was really pretty cloudy most of the day but the fishing was definitely better in the morning. We started trolling at 7:30 and caught both wahoo, the mahi and hooked the marlin before 9:30. The sail was caught about 11:45. We had some more knock downs later in the day but we didn't see what they were.

Can you post the YouTube link? The embedded videos never work on my phone

Here you go:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1izwaGSu9z8

[rvd]

Very nice! What model Contender are you running?

[LuBowhunter]

How far out are you running to troll for pelagics? I'm thinking of taking my rig down there instead of Venice next time.

[Sticks&Strings]

Sweet video frank. I hope I can be one of your "actors" one day. I can battle those seas.

[deer99hunter]

How far out are you running to troll for pelagics? I'm thinking of taking my rig down there instead of Venice next time.

I can give you some good coordinates for pelagics. Let me know when you're ready to go.

[LuBowhunter]

I can give you some good coordinates for pelagics. Let me know when you're ready to go.

Will do! Looking for somewhere new to try.

[Rounder]

Very nice! What model Contender are you running?

It's my brother's boat and it is a 23T Contender.

How far out are you running to troll for pelagics? I'm thinking of taking my rig down there instead of Venice next time.

We started trolling this trip at around 45 miles in 300' of water and trolled out to about 60 miles and 1500' of water.

I would imagine you could catch them in closer but would think you would need to be in at least 200' of water for most of them which would be about 30 miles depending on your heading from the jetty.

The snapper down there are a big time bonus (to us anyway) because you can catch them year round in state waters with a limit of 4. That Sunday we caught them a mile from the beach in less than 40' of water.

[Cabela]

Looks like you guys had one heck of a trip. Great job on the video as well.

[Goon]

Cool video