“Any of the fish that were hanging deep to get out of the current realize that they can flip to the surface and get on top of the waves. “As a cold front comes through and that wind goes around to the north, the wind goes against the current and creates a big swell,” Dieterle said. It’s called “tailing” - riding wave tops like they’re surfing. Traditionally, fall-winter cold fronts delight sailfish anglers, as winds opposing the Gulfstream’s northward flow offers sails strategic benefit. So, while biology plots the course, daily sea conditions set the pace. And our visibility is better too and that allows me to hunt them better in that cleaner water.”Īs Dieterle notes, the sails’ southern migration takes them to warm tropical spawning waters. You see them coming from a long ways off, because they can see the bait that much better. “But when they’re feeding in the clean water, it’s generally an aggressive bite. Generally, if you’re catching fish in dirty water it’s a very lethargic bite they’re not really in a feeding pattern, but it’s just an opportunity. “I think the clean water gets them excited. “We like to see good clean water - preferably blue water - a northbound current and a show of ballyhoo, bonitos or whatever bait they’re feeding on,” Sapp said. For him, water clarity factors greatly in sailfish pursuits. Art Sapp runs the “Liquid”, a 39-foot Sea Vee with quad Mercury 350 Verados. Otherwise, they’ll lock down and stay.”īased out of Hillsboro Inlet, Capt. Instinct tells them they have to get south by a certain time, so when the current is light, they’ll move. “They only move when conditions are right for them to move. “It’s not that the fish disappear they go into a lock-down mode. “The funny thing about sailfish is you can sit out there one day and not catch a single thing but you can go the next day and catch 18, 19 fish,” Dierterle said. Sails like that 75- to 80-degree water temperature with light current and moving bait schools, but the sea remains a dynamic canvas. Quinton Dieterle, who runs the 45-foot Hatteras “Cutting Edge” out of Key Biscayne’s Crandon Park Marina, said fluctuating conditions typically chops the southern run into incremental pushes. Unlike marlin and swordfish, which favor deep water, sails are commonly caught within eyesight of the coast. Ranging from the Gulf of Maine to Brazil, sails migrate northward during the spring-summer months and return southward along the warm Gulfstream when autumn’s cooling hints of winter’s approach. They go by “sailfish,” in Florida’s southeastern waters, where massive fall-winter migrations deliver banner day potential. The speed of a sprinter, the grace of a ballerina and amazing aerial pageantry befitting a Cirque du Soleil performance - that’s Istiophorus platypterus.
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