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Nice Wahoo and Kingfish caught on our sport-fishing charter. There are a few nice fish biting on the troll. Let’s go fishing! www.FishHeadquarters.com
There are some awesome fish biting on our fishing charters this week. I don’t know if it’s the time of year, the supermoon we just had or if there’s something in the water, but there are some unusual catches coming in this week. First off, the sailfish bite has been pretty good. This is the season when the sailfish start biting in good numbers and we haven’t even had any cold weather yet. Well, this is usually the time when the weather starts to cool down so good sailfishing is about to become awesome sailfishing. Wahoo are tearing it up out there. With the supermoon and the big tide swings, the wahoo are biting like mad. A few really nice wahoo and a bunch of medium sized ones were caught this week. Usual catches of kingfish, mackerel and bonitos are also hitting the docks.
We’ve caught some unusual fish this week. The snapper pictured above is a humongous dog snapper. I thought it was a cubera when I first saw it, it was so big. These snappers are very rare for us to catch in south Florida, especially one so large. Other strange and unusual bottom fish are biting too. We’ve caught some monster golden tilefish deep dropping in over 600ft of water. Barrelfish and oilfish are also biting. These are not usual catches for our fishing charters. Other big bottom dwellers such as warsaw grouper and some big amberjacks have been caught on our fishing charters this week. It’s been a great month for bottom fishing.
Shark fishing is also starting to light up out there. This week, we’ve caught several hammerhead sharks, a mako shark (very rare), a couple of sand bar sharks and a huge bull shark. I think this year will have some awesome shark fishing results. We’re still not fully into shark fishing season but the unusual fishing conditions had us floating out some big shark baits since the sharks were really riled up with the big moon and super tides. Glad we did because we caught some monster sharks over the past few days.
The effects of the supermoon are still being seen with extraordinary tides, strange fish and unusual catches. As we normalize, look for great catches of mahi-mahi, sailfish, wahoo and cobia to be hitting the docks in the weeks to come. Good luck to everyone fishing out there this week. I’ll sea ya on the water.
Capt. Paul Roydhouse
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The weather has been very windy this week. It’s kept a lot of the small boats home and even some of the big boats. We’ve been fishing every day though and let me tell you, the fishing (and the catching) has been great! Dolphin, tuna, sailfish and more are biting. The reason? the strong easterly wind. A hard east wind gets the fish chewing. It blows the seaweed and debris in closer to the shore and with it, the dolphin. If you can handle the waves, these are the conditions we wait for all year for the really good fishing. It also helps that many boats haven’t been fishing the past few days, making less competition for the fish.
Nice dolphin caught by this lucky angler on our drift fishing trip. Let’s go fishing!
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Night anchor trips are catching the highest numbers of fish out of the 3 trips aboard our party fishing boat. Our night anchor trip concentrates on fishing for snappers on the bottom. Lots of yellowtails are biting at night. Mangrove snappers are biting pretty good too. Usually on the full moon of September, the mangroves will spawn and bite extra good. Tomorrow night is the full moon, so we’ll see. A select few muttons are also biting and they’ve been big! The muttons we’re catching this week have averaged 6-12 pounds, which is a bit larger than our average muttons usually are. Sharks are also biting on some nights on our anchor trip. We catch a lot of Atlantic sharpnose sharks, Cuban night sharks, blacktips and nurse. These sharks aren’t the monster gamesharks that we catch on our sportfishing charters, but rather 3-4 ft in length and perfect for a good fight on 30 pound test. Our night anchor trips are catching the most fish by numbers of any of our daily $40 trips.
The fishing in Fort Lauderdale has been excellent this week. Lots of kingfish and bonitos are still biting on the reefs. Action on the wrecks has been consistent with a good amount of snappers and sometimes a grouper. Offshore action has been spotty. There are some dolphin out but you have to find them which require a lot of trolling miles. There’s been much better and more consistent action trolling the reefs and edge of the Gulfstream. Sailfish starting biting early last week and wow!!! what a week of sailfishing. This is just the beginning of sailfish season and it looks like this year will be a tremendous year for them. We catch different varieties of fish on our different trips, so this is a breakdown of what we are catching on the various deep sea fishing trips that we run:
Drift Fishing Trips 8:30am & 1:30pm
Our drift fishing trips are doing well catching kingfish, bonitos and snappers. Bonitos seem to be hanging in longer this year than in years past. They are usually long gone by now, but there are still big numbers of bonitos on the reefs. Kingfish are mixed in with them. We’re catching the kingfish by either flat line fishing a ballyhoo/sardine or by jigging a whip jig off the bow of the boat. These techniques are also the best way to catch bonito and blackfin tuna. Snappers fishing is also going good. We’re getting some really big mutton snappers here and there on the afternoon trips. Decent numbers of yellowtail snappers are biting as well as the full array of grunts, porgies, triggers, jacks and other good eating bottom fish.
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