Great White and Mola season in NE FL

[100days-a-year]

No one has seen one underwater yet this year but they are certain to be here by now.
Vis was 10 to 15 inshore and 40 to 50 offshore last time anyone was out. Best bet will be the bigger wrecks in around 100' like the Anna, Powerful, Casablanca and the Drydock.
The guys fishing for cobias around those wrecks will see them on top all winter.

 

[OceanEyes]

Some of my friends saw a Mola earlier this week near the surface during a night drift dive off of West Palm. They were all diving with cameras equipped with macro lenses, so there were a few photographs made of a large eyeball.

 

[Catito]

Some of my friends saw a Mola earlier this week near the surface during a night drift dive off of West Palm. They were all diving with cameras equipped with macro lenses, so there were a few photographs made of a large eyeball.

Ha!

 

[Blues Runner]

Fishing off of Jacksonville during the colder winter months brings surprises. I have seen the waving dorsal fin of several mola's over the years from the comfort (read that as warmth) of my boat deck. You get a sense of their enormous size when looking from the surface. We have also seen right whales from a distance on a couple of occasions .

I also experienced a great white encounter several years ago while reeling in a red snapper. Smaller great white, but an amazing experience!

 

[sportxlh]

great photos Blues Runner!

 

[100days-a-year]

I had a dive buddy see a right whale close up in mediocre vis while hanging doing his deco a few years back. We had been talking great whites and other sharks all morning, he got out of the water pale white. After he recovered from the shock he was pretty psyched.

 

[Johnoly]

...he was pretty psyched.

We totally missed the annual transiting whale sharks in Jup/WPB that always come the week before Thanksgiving. Every year there's even topside fishing boats reporting sightings, but nothing this year despite the good weather. We'll see if the GW's show up.