Page 4 - Stuart Exposure - August '20

Page 4, Stuart Exposure
Treasure Coast Outdoors

Want Something Different? To make sure I did it right, I went to Offshore Tackle planning on releasing a fish.
Although the Daiwa Seaborg 1220MJ reel will cost
Try Deep Drop Fishing For and Repair, at 2201 S.E. Indian St., in Stuart. Marty about $1,400, it is well worth it. Along with deep drop
Romstadt works there and I knew him from when he
Tilefish! worked at Finest Kind. Along with a long history in the fishing for anything from grouper to swordfish, it can also
Art Happenings from page 4 Treasure Coast fishing scene, Marty is also an expert on be used as a downrigger. Don’t make the mistake that I
By Jim Weix fishing for tilefish. once did. I bought a cheap electric reel, with no manual
I was rather excited I bought the Daiwa Seaborg 1220MJ electric reel and crank or a way of setting your reel for automatic control.
when Tom Flynn, of Palm had 60-pound braided line put on. Based upon Marty’s Editor’s note: Jim Weix is an avid hunter, angler,
City, asked me to go fishing recommendation, I got an assortment of weights. I also conservationist, as well as an outdoor writer.
with him. He had recently got an education on circle hooks. Jim is included in the Wisconsin Waterfowl Association’s
been deep dropping for Circle hooks can be roughly divided into two types, Hall of Fame, for his work in helping restore thousands
tilefish and had been quite offset and non-offset. The offset refers to the amount of of acres of wetlands. Jim is a broker associate with The
successful. deviation in the plane of the hook point relative to that Keyes Company. He can be reached at (772) 341-2941
Tilefish are bottom of the shank. Offset means when you lay the hook down or by email: jimweix@jimweix.com.
feeders and are found in on a table, it won’t lay completely flat. A true non-offset The author caught his first tilefish and is hooked on
water depths of 250 to hook will lay perfectly flat on the table. Non-offset will deep dropping.
1,500 feet. They prefer normally hook your fish at the jaw, while offset circle
water temperatures between 49 to 58 degrees. They are hooks are more likely to hook your fish, but it can hook
bottom feeders with strong teeth, and feed on shrimp, anywhere. A non-offset would be desired if you are
crabs, shellfish, sea urchins, sea cucumbers, squid, and
an occasional fish.
Tom used an electric Daiwa Seaborg 1220MJ reel.
The line he used was a 60-pound braided line. Anything
heavier creates an issue with staying on the bottom due
to the current. Attached to that was a hook size 7 or 8
circle deep drop rig, a light, and a 6-pound weight. We
used squid for bait and were careful not to cover the tip
of the hook.
On the day that we fished the current was a ripping
5 mph. Although we could get the rig to the bottom, the
current made it impossible to keep it there without letting
out a lot of extra line. In this case a better weight would
have been 12 pounds. Since we didn’t have one, we had
to make do with what we had.
The good news is, despite some setbacks, I caught my
first tilefish! The size won’t set any records but it was
big enough to feed four of us. The bad news is that I was
hooked and proceeded to buy my own equipment.

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