Giant swell kept everyone at home over the past weekend. Made it out a few times this week catching sailfish, a few mahi and bonitos. As the swell leaves the kingfish will show back up.

Capt. Alex Burgess
Palm Beach Offshore Fishing Charters

Bite slowed down some this week with the windy conditions. We caught sailfish, kingfish and a few dolphin. After this cold front the bite should pick back up. 

Capt. Alex Burgess
Palm Beach Offshore Fishing Charters

Big kingfish up to 50 lbs are here for the next 2 weeks. Some sailfish and dolphin still around. Hard south east wind for the rest of the week will make for a bumpy ocean but fishable. 

Capt. Alex Burgess
Palm Beach Offshore Fishing Charters

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The big kings have showed up and the weather looks good for the whole week. There are still some sailfish and dolphin around. Limited days left open the rest of the month.

Capt. Alex Burgess
Palm Beach Offshore Fishing Charters

The sailfish bite has slowed some now that it warmed up some, but I am still getting a few every trip. With the east winds this week the kingfish and dolphin bite should improve. Forecast shows east wind all week and fishing should be good.

Capt. Alex Burgess
Palm Beach Offshore Fishing Charters

Lots of wind and rough seas but sailfish are chewing. If you can make it out double digit days are very possible. Looks like another week of wind blowing 15-20. 

Capt. Alex Burgess
Palm Beach Offshore Fishing Charters

The unmistakable silhouette of a magnificent frigate differs from the gannet and so too, this fishing excursion was like no other. I'm moving sloth-like this Saturday morning after an eight hour split charter in three-to-five Atlantic seas on Friday.

Its January in South Florida and the cool winds wail from the Great White North. Churning seas with a bounty of sails, pelagic reptiles hunting drifting man-o-war, bastard sharks; seabirds, sky-rocketing mackerel royalty, baitfish and dolphins. We witnessed all on this trip.

Ryan, a Minnesota native and I chugged North from the Palm Beach Inlet to the waters off Jupiter with Captain Alex Burgess on his 29' center console built by Sea Vee. The twin Mercury outboards pushed us through the slop to the fishing grounds.

On arrival, our brassy young captain set the kites as Ryan and I bantered about life. Although we didn't solve any pressing world issues I enjoyed his company.
I captured 2,000 images on three different cameras which is normal, but I also free-spooled and hooked a sail and gladiator-gaffed two hefty kingfish which is not.

Captain Chris Lemieux has taught this elder well over the previous ten years of fishing on the Conch Cruiser.

"The gaff is a rake not a shovel."

A quote from a friend of mine they call Jake -- it is forever engrained in my brain.
We finished an extremely cool, bumpy day with a tally of four-for-five on sails all hooked and released, five-for-nine on kingfish -- the largest, perhaps 40-pounds, was taken by a giant bull shark as the sun vanished in the western sky.
January 19, 2018

Fishing has been a little slower this week. Sailfishing has slowed to 1-4 bites a trip. The kingfish have shown back up with some smokers coming in if you can get them past the sharks. I will be fishing the buc cup this weekend on Southern Run in some heavy winds. Keep a eye out on the live scoring.

Capt. Alex Burgess
Palm Beach Offshore Fishing Charters

Had a awesome weekend winning the 81st Annual Silver Sailfish Derby going 17 for 20 on sailfish in 2 days on "Southern Run". The sailfish have been biting great everyday after this big cold front. Big kingfish will show back up when it calms down towards the end of the week.

Capt. Alex Burgess
Palm Beach Offshore Fishing Charters

The sailfishing continues to be very good. With another front coming this weekend it should stay good. The mahi are starting to show up. Weather looks good all week.

Capt. Alex Burgess
Palm Beach Offshore Fishing Charters