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Sportfishing Shared and Private Charters

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Our sportfishing charters are our best all around trip and they are coming in with the most impressive catches lately. Trolling the reefs is working excellent for kingfish, blackfin tuna, bonito, barracuda and sometimes even a wahoo. The action on the troll has made it difficult for us to switch over and do anything different. First rule of fishing is never to leave fish to find fish. But once we’ve caught our limit of kingfish, we often switch over just for the heck of it to try some live baiting. This past week, sailfishing has been off-the-scale! September is the beginning of sailfish season here in Ft Lauderdale. This is the time of year all the big game fishermen come down to try their luck at catching the most sought after gamefish in the ocean… Sailfish. This sailfish season started off this past week with a bang. We had 3 days when the sailfish were jumping in the boat. One day we caught 6, one day 8 and 4 the next. It doesn’t get much better than that. It tailed off a bit over the past couple days but that’s how sailfishing is… it runs in spurts. We get a huge influx of sailfish for a couple days and they bite like crazy, and then they disappear for a few days. We’re only a few days into sailfish season but this sailfish season looks like it is going to be epic!

Crazy Good Deep Dropping Offshore Ft Lauderdale

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We’re doing a lot of deep drop fishing off Ft Lauderdale this week and we’re catching some pretty cool stuff. With the surface water temperatures being so hot, it’s sometimes good to go deep this time of year. Snappers and groupers are the main bottom fish that everyone knows. They are biting good around the wrecks. Any wreck in 200+ feet of water should be holding some fish. Our main wrecks are all in the 200-400 ft of water range. Vermilion snapper are a deepwater snapper that we catch by dropping a chicken rig down to the bottom. A chicken rig is a rig with 4 or 5 hooks, each tied individually in a series and each baited with a chunk of squid. The point of the rig is to catch multiple fish on the same drop, or if the snappers are playing with and just picking at the bait, it gives you multiple chances to set the hook on the shy feeding fish. It’s a great rig for bottom fishing and sometimes yields big numbers of fish, very quickly. Vermilion snapper are great because they school up so if you find a spot where you catch 1 or 2, there’s probably a berry patch of them there and if you keep dropping in that area, you might catch a bunch.

Mick’s First Blue Marlin

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Guess what we caught today? Check out the Blue Marlin we caught&released on our sport-fishing charter out of Ft Lauderdale. This was mate Mick’s first blue marlin ever!! Let’s go fishing!

Loads of Fish, Lots of Action on the Ft Lauderdale Reef

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Great action this week on the Fort Lauderdale reef. Bonitos, a gamefish species of tuna (non-edible) are solid on our reefs right now as they are embarking on their annual migration down our coastline. Bonitos are in the tuna family and are one of the strongest fish pound for pound in the ocean. Every summer, hundreds of thousands of bonitos make their way northward along our reefs, feeding on the plenitude of small baitfishes. This annual event gets the action on our reefs HOT and creates the best fishing season for general action in south Florida. Lots of other pelagic fish species migrate among the bonitos, taking full advantage of the school’s protection and hunting advantages.

Reefs and Wrecks Holding Big Fish in Fort Lauderdale

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The Fort Lauderdale reefs and wrecks are holding some nice fish this week. First off, the wrecks are working great. In years past, Fort Lauderdale was involved in the Artificial Reef Program and sank dozens of large, retired vessels to make good habitat for fish. Shallow spots were great for divers, creating a fun location to dive and view fish. Deeper wrecks in the 200-300ft range, made good spots for fishermen to target deep dwelling bottom fish. We’ve perfected our technique for fishing shipwrecks. Using live baits, we can target a specific structure (like a big sunken shipwreck) to go after big game fish. We drop a single live bait to the bottom and allow the current to carry our boat and bait over, along and past the sunken structure. This is a fast, efficient way to go after amberjacks, almaco jacks, several species of large groupers and cobia. We catch other species at times too such as barracuda, sharks and snapper. Wreck fishing is a great technique this time of year to catch some of the biggest and hardest fighting fish available in our waters.