13 Year old Kyle Lands Big Sea Monster aboard Hooked Up
April 5th, 2012
This afternoon we had a regular angler who has fished with us in the past and has landed some big fish aboard the Hooked Up.
Today Shawn brought along his 13-year-old son Kyle along with his wife and daughter Lynette and Shalyn from New Fond land Canada.
Last year they had caught a big sailfish fishing with us aboard the Hooked Up so this year we were looking for a BIG shark.
As you have heard in the past be carful what you hope for!!
Yep you guessed it. After setting out the kites along with our deep shark baits BAM one of the deep rods bent over and the fight was on. BUT I never would have guessed this one little Kyle jumped in the chair and he was not giving up the rod.
This was not an easy fish to catch and while Kyle showed no signs of giving up neither did this sea monster on the other end.
Kyle would lose a lot of line and than gain a little back lose a lot more gain a little back than slowly but surely the tables started to turn now Kyle would gain a lot and than lose a little. I don't know how long this went on for but it had to be close to an hour or maybe a little longer but at last Kyle got this MONSTER Hammerhead shark to the boat.
At this point the shark was pretty tired so we were able to slide him in through the tuna door for a quick measurement and some pictures and we even got all the hooks out and sent him back to sea to fight again another day.
Kyle you are one tough little guy my hats off to you great job.
Shawn thanks again for bring the family down to fish 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
Fishing with the Family from Sea Hag Marina
April 4th, 2012
Today we fished with Charlie and his wife Daniel and their kids Chase and Chaeli.
They own a marine up in Stein Hatchie Florida call the Sea Hag Marina and they wanted to try a little east cost fishing instead of the bottom fishing they do a lot of on the west coast of Florida.
We started out trolling the reef catching 4 kingfish.
Ok skunk was out of the box so it was time to try for the big one.
We set out our fishing kite with a live and a dead bait suspended from the kite. We also sent a shark bait to the bottom and another shark bait half way down. (TRAP SET)
The wait was on but we had a good feeling we had a slight north current and the water was a clean green. Perfect conditions for sharks.
And soon enough one of the shark rods bent over and just like that we were Hooked Up.
The fight was on!! Back and forth we would gain a little and the shark would take it right back. Slowly but surely we were gaining and after a good 30 min fight we finally got this nice hammerhead shark to the side of the boat.
We did manage to get 2 of the 3 hooks out and as I ran back up on the fly bridge I seen J.J. and Charlie doing something over the side with the shark.
Well I be dammed they got the third hook out of the side of this sharks mouth.
(Guys the hooks only cost 95 cents each!!) Well I'm sure the shark was happy they got the third hook out but as much as we like to release these sharks in as good of shape as possible it really well rust out in a matter of weeks.
All the same no harm done and everyone was high fiveing and shaking hands over this perfect catch and release.
Thanks again to the whole family for fishing with us aboard the Hooked Up off Fort Lauderdale's red-hot coast.
Captain Taco (954) 764-4344 or toll free 2 (877) SEA-4344 tacohookedup@aol.com
