Chunking mackerel or sardines/menhaden can be effective when they are picky and/or in colder water.A dolphin is an aquatic mammal within the infraorder Cetacea. They’re also readily caught on live bait and casting surface jigs this is most productive when you find a school associated with a small piece of floating structure like a kelp paddy or log. Black/purple, pink/white, baitfish patterns, and other bright colors are good choices. They’ll gobble up trolling feathers and can get really aggressive with oversized marlin lures.
is productive for specifically targeting dolphin. Trolling along weed lines and around kelp paddies, logs, etc. Here, a classic Southern California kelp paddy with a dorado (dolphin) underneath In these shallower areas they also sometimes hang around reef and ledge structures unless they’ve chased baitfish out into the open.Ĭolor breaks within 0.01-5 mg/m3 Chl: GoodĬurrent breaks, eddies, and slicks: Very goodįlotsam such as weed lines, kelp paddies, and logs: BEST Look for flotsam such as kelp paddies and weed lines to find dolphin. This is especially true where the Gulf Stream runs near the coast and coastal shelf in Florida and the edges of the warm water butt up against cooler inshore water to form current slicks and weed lines in shallow water. They will sometimes venture inshore as shallow as 10-30 fathoms when offshore currents push in toward the coast. Since dolphin are mainly found offshore and near the surface, bottom depth and structure aren’t quite as important for them. They also tend to stick to cleaner blue offshore water but will occasionally cross over to the green side of color breaks if that’s where the baitfish are hiding out. They typically bite best once temps get up into the 70-78F range to get their metabolism kicked into high gear.
You’ll sometimes find them in water as cold as 65-66F but they are more commonly found in warmer water. Since the currents map is best viewed zoomed out over much larger areas, though, it’s still a good idea to fine-tune your game plan with the high-def SST and Chlorophyll images to find the sharper edges and breaks in the current.ĭolphin can be found in a fairly wide range of water temperatures. The flotsam will tend to gather where the current slows down and/or changes direction abruptly, as well as in “convergence zones” where two currents run into each other head-on. The SatFish currents map can also help provide a big-picture view of large areas where you’re more likely to find Sargassum and other floating debris – and therefore dolphin and other gamefish. These breaks are often good indicators of current breaks and slicks, which accumulate flotsam and the bait that hides in it. Use SatFish high-def SST and Chlorophyll maps to look for temperature and color breaks. They’ve even been known to hang out around floating objects as small as a palm frond, buoy, or lost cooler! dorado or mahi-mahi) are primarily an offshore species that associate with floating structure such as Sargassum weed lines, logs, kelp paddies, and fish aggregation devices (FADs).
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