"Catching the heck out of the fish off Fort Lauderdale"
September 21st, 2011
Today we fished with Tom from North Carolina, Lynn from South Dakota, Cheryl and Jay from Virginia and Don from Iowa.
We went right to trolling the reef with 2 planner boards running about 45 to 50 feet down and 3 baits skipping across the surface.
Today the planner boards were on fire with everyone catching 12 kingfish, a bunch of bonitos and 2 nice barracudas.
To all of our anglers today we had a ball fishing with you aboard the Hooked Up off the coast of South Florida.
Captain Taco (954) 764-4344 or toll free @ (877) SEA-4344
"Fishing with the softball players and having a ball catching Barracuda and Sailfish"
September 20th, 2011
Today we got a last min call from a few guys who were down on a softball tournament and got the afternoon off and thought it might be fun to go out fishing for a few hours. I don't think they had any idea of what great fishing they were about to have!!
We had Ricky, Jeremy, Alex and Blaine.
Since we were out for only 3 hours and this gave us just over 2 hour of actually fishing time we went right to kite fishing with 4 live baits suspended from the kites.
Once all the baits were set it only took a few min till we got our first bite.
Blaine jumped in the chair and the fight was on. After a good 10 min fight Blaine got a nice barracuda to the boat.
Ok now the skunk was out of the box so right back out went the bait and once again the trap was set.
All of a sudden a big sailfish popped up and was after our right long kite bait. Within seconds the sail had caught the bait and line was screaming off the reel. Ricky jumped in the chair and the fight was on.
At first this sail was dancing all over the surface but then he headed straight down and it turned into a gulling back and forth tug a war but Ricky hung in there and 15 min later Ricky had his first sailfish to the side of the boat.
We got a couple of pictures of him swimming next to the boat and J.J. cut the line right at the hook and we all watched him swim away in great shape to fight again another day.
(Guy's thanks again for taking the time to fish with us aboard the Hooked Up.) O yea and best of luck with your softball tournament.
Captain Taco (954) 764-4344 or toll free @ (877) Sea-4344
