Fillet o' Fish

"Spanish mackeral are super abundant," said Russel Williams as he neatly filleted a pile of fish. "There are so many they could have sunk your boat."

Cobia are also biting, and anglers that venture offshore are reeling in limits of dolphin, or mahi mahi, if you prefer that nomenclature.

"Yesterday all the full days came in with a limit of dolphin," said Anchorage Marina dockmaster Mike Leombruno.  The boats that stayed inshore all returned to the docks with their limits on Spanish Mackeral.  Triggers and other bottom fish are taking the bait as well, said Leombruno. 

One charter boat client spent yesterday going after marlin, with no luck. 

Captain Steve Wilson of the Dream Girl normally stays closer to shore on half day trips, but today he got a wild hair and hit the gulf stream.  "We jetted off, torched them and come home," said Wilson of the limit of dolphin that the boat brought back to the Anchorage dock.  "We were 16 miles offshore but still only 50 minutes from home," he said.

On this, the longest day of 2012, the Drum Stick, Deveraux and Gecko are all fishing the gulf stream.  Charter boats return to the dock as early as 3:30 and as late as 6 p.m., said Leombruno.  Stop by SmacNally's on the Anchorage Marina docks this--or any--summer afternoon to watch the catch being unloaded and hear a fishing story or two.