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[Fishscottyf]

Originally Posted by ameristrat

I've heard people say this quite often --> "I have been working this area often while trolling but it doesn't produce. I don't understand, I've caught fish there before!"

Let me offer my experience.

Beyond 200-300 feet of water, the only specific areas to concentrate on are ones with great bottom features that lead to up wellings (I.E. - humps, BIG dropoffs, ridges) and up our way (Delray Beach for me) there aren't too many of those. The only bottom structure outside of 150' feet that I have had consistent production on is the Wahoo Ledge in Boynton (good drop off from 230'-280').

Especially if you are looking for dolphin, you should be looking for rips, color changes, birds, weedlines, floating structure, temperature changes, flying fish activity, etc). Notice none of these have anything to do with a concrete area. The Gulfstream is moving north at 3-5 knots on average menaing that most of these 'good areas' last for a matter of hours. Dolphin follow bait and that is what you are looking for with these less concrete features. If you have caught a couple of dolphin one day in 600 feet of water off of the Mariot in Delray, unless conditions are EXACTLY the same, which is unusual, you will have no more luck there tomorrow than you would have anywhere else.

I did not mean to offend anyone in this, I am honestly trying to help. As soon as you start using GPS coordinates to find dolphin outside of 150-200 feet of water, you're probably wasting your time. You should be looking for all of the other signs I mentioned above.

Tight Lines!
Ameristrat

If you keep close tabs you will see that rips, temp breaks, color changes and all that other good stuf are 100% there because of the bottom. Most edges will appear within a half a mile from the bottom contour. If you fished a rip and did good, there is a good chance that the same rip will occur often under the same conditions. You just might not do as well. Mark where your edges are on your plotter. you will see that you can actually run to a spot where an edge was over and over, and altough they are not always there, they will apear in the same spots often. Most of my dolphin action when there are no conditions happens as we are trolling around looking at the proven bottom spots in 100 ft. or 1000 ft. rip or not.

[DORADOsteve]

Originally Posted by so cal cowboy

Steve,
could you send me some photos, as to how your tower connects to the boat.

Here ya go!