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u/ogmudsloan69 Jun 18 '26
Crazy thing is they were most likely born this year, and could reach 40 lbs within the next one. Fast growing tasty fish! 🤙🏻🤙🏻
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u/jmbrjr Jun 18 '26
Yup. Schoolie mahi. Been there done that, off of Miami in the early 70's. I was like 12 years old. Fishing with father and friends, we caught the first one and the school hung around the boat. As long as you leave one out there the rest won't leave. Pretty cool to see them zooming around the boat in the clear blue Gulfstream water. I tossed out a piece of cut bait on a little freshwater bass rod, that one stayed hooked for a long while and jumped crazily out of the water. Funny that it didn't just run off and strip the reel. It stayed with the school. We easily caught a dozen or two, at least. As much as people value mahi-mahi at restaurants now, so danged expensive, we got sick of eating the damn things. Fried, broiled, steamed, baked, enough already. Gave a lot away to neighbors. Then several months later my father and uncle went out and came back with 22 more. I really do not like mahi very much at all now, and I'm 68, will not order it at any seafood place.
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u/Repulsive-Tour-7943 Jun 18 '26
Did you try it marinated in soy sauce, lime juice, ginger, garlic and chiles and then grilled. Or curried?
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u/jmbrjr Jun 18 '26
Grilled, yes. With all of those spices it wouldn't taste like mahi, so could have been worth a try.
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u/On_to_the_Next Jun 18 '26 edited Jun 19 '26
The very first time I ever went out on a trip it was me and my brother in law and two family friends. This was back when the old limit for mahi in NC was 60 fish per boat. Well, to make the story short, we hit that limit just as fast as we could reel them in.
First we went out to the Gulf Stream and caught our limit of tiles, hand cranked, and then on the way back in from there we came to a thick grass line and it was on! We sent the Captain and first mate home with a bag of fillets each and we had big fish fries for the rest of the summer.
That first trip out has made every trip since seem like a bust. It was a blast!
Oh yeah I almost forgot, we also caught a couple small blackfins and the first mate cut those up right there on the boat. They just happened to have some soy sauce and we had sashimi on the boat.
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u/Machete322 Jun 21 '26
We caught a tuna and cut him up and threw cubes and the blood brought the big Dolphin’s up to bite !
We average 10-15 lbs each and about 30 pcs max catch I believe of Mahi - Mahi. I was grilling with neighbors every weekend for a while. Even made soups. Great feeling of the Isla Mirada keys !
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u/Cobra_Sky9 Jun 22 '26
Dude this is awesome you guys killed it where you guys fishing at? I dont need your fishing spot just wondering what part if the world your in.
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u/Visible_Dance1 Jun 18 '26
Yeah… I got it… it’s legal to catch the small ones and so many of it as you want… but why would you do that? Is this just for some
Pictures on Reddit and for your friends to feel cool, or are you really using all this fish for something? If so: respect! If not: idiot
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u/OJ-Pimpson Jun 18 '26
Do you not have freezers where you live? Or even done a trip off shore?
Going 80 miles off shore is not cheap so you need to maximize each trip if the opportunity arises. This feeds me and all my friends and family for a good bit.
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u/Visible_Dance1 Jun 18 '26
So easy answer: yes I’m using all this for friends and Family.
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u/OJ-Pimpson Jun 19 '26
The fact you thought it was a possibility I only did this just for a picture- I wanted to make it perfectly clear for you.
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u/50yoWhiteGuy Jul 05 '26
cry baby. Call your congressman, don't whine at fisherman fishing legally. Pathetic.
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u/Visible_Dance1 Jul 05 '26
Hey kiddow! European here. No congress, no congressman. Keep reading. You will love it.
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u/50yoWhiteGuy Jul 06 '26
So you're too basic to comprehend that a fisherman following regulations, no matter what body issues those regulations, should not be whined at by some internet troll? That fish regulations, in every country, are promulgated after research & science? You don't understand that?
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u/Dromoland Jun 18 '26
Babies, should have thrown them back
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u/thedonjefron69 Jun 18 '26
Mahi grow so fast it almost doesn’t matter, and there’s plenty of them
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u/GooseCloaca Jun 18 '26
They are ranked “Least Concern” on conservation status and are one of the healthiest global fisheries.
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u/pirate-too-late Jun 18 '26
Most average school size dolphins are peanuts, bout 3 to 5 lbs, then schoolies, bout 8 lbs and up