Just got back and had a real problem with the sargassum and trolling.
Winds out of SE all week brought in big and small patches everywhere.
Five or ten minutes is all it would take to clog up the lure with grass and start dragging the line out.
Pretty much gave up on fishing this year.
Any suggestions from you pro fishermen(woman) out there on how to deal with this.
Looks like it is not going away any time soon.

Honestly there is not much you can do if trolling. Sometimes the south drop has less weed than the north.

Hey George,

We cruised around the back side ( south side) of Peter and Norman.
Not out to the drop but along the coast.

No getting away from the stuff.

We just got done with a week trip in Antigua/Barbuda. Pretty mediocre fishing results because of the sargassum. A couple things we did differently:

- Put out a smaller spread and kept the lines closer to make clearing weed easier
- Skipped diving lures because of the drag with the weed
- Tried a weedless ballyhoo rig which actually worked pretty well. However, we were sailing 8-9 knots at the time and the ballyhoos didn't last too long at that speed