SailFish, HammerHead Sharks and Tunas aboard Hooked Up off Ft Lauderdale
April 22nd, 2012
Today we started out fishing with Kalb and his wife Jessie from Colorado.
We started out trolling and caught 4 bonitos and 2 black fin tunas.
Once we had a few fish in the box so we switched from trolling to kite fishing with live and dead baits suspended from the kites and a couple more shark baits down deep.
From here on the big game fish started showing up.
We had a total of 3 sailfish on witch all got lucky jumping all over the place and spitting the hooks. (RATS)
But then we got a big bite on one of the shark rods and the fight was on!
It was a back and forth tug a war for a good 30 min till finally Kalb got this monster hammerhead shark to the side of the boat.
We did get 2 out of the 3 hooks out and watched him swim away in good shape.
As we got back to the dock we had George from Boston along with his son Theo from Miami Florida along with Luis from Arizona and Mark from Conn.
This afternoon we went right to kite fishing with 3 live baits suspended from the kites along with 2 other shark baits down deep.
All of a sudden between rainstorms we had a BIG sailfish pop up on one of the live baits. The sail grabbed the bait and swam away slowly as J.J. locked up the reel and Captain Greg went ahead with the boat. George jumped in the chair and the fight was on. At first this sail was jumping all over the place but then he settled down and it turned into a deep down and dirty fight. George hung in there and 20 min later George had his first sail to the boat.
Way to go George.
Ok back to fishing and out of nowhere a big hammer head shark ate the shark bait that was also suspended from the kite.
This shark took off like a rocket ship and the long fight was on.
This time Theo, Luis and Mark all took turns fighting this big sea monster.
At last we got him to the boat and once again got 2 out of the 3 hooks out and watched him swim away in good shape.
Thanks again to all of our anglers today for fishing with us aboard the Hooked Up off the coast of Fort Lauderdale.
Captain Taco (954) 764-4344 or toll free @ (877) Sea-4344 tacohookedup@aol.com
