Aug 8
Today we had Jim from Ohio and his son D.J. and their close friends Jim and his son Princess that's right princess and if you seen this BIG guy you know he may be a lot of things but Princess he is not but that's what his dad Jim called him and that's what he said his name was so who am I to argue. (LOL)
Anyway back to the fishing. We trolled the reef with our 2 planners running about 45 feet deep and three surface baits skipping across the surface.
And once again the reef produced kings and bonitos. We ended up catching 8 kings and 2 bonitos.
As we pulled back to the dock we had John from Panama City and Michael and his son Lucas waiting for us.
And once again we went right to trolling the reef catching 8 nice king fish.
Thanks to all of our anglers today for fishing aboard the Hooked Up.
Captain Taco (954) 764-4344 or toll free (877) SEA-4344
Aug 9
Today we had Jim and his son D.J. our again for a few hours of deep sea fishing again.
Today Jim let us know that they had caught plenty of kings and bonitos yesterday and today they wanted to try landing a big fish like a shark, sailfish, tuna or anything big.
We went right out to 350 feet of water and set our 3 big dead bonitos. One 350 down on the bottom one about 150 feet down and a 3rd right on the surface. I wish I had a great ending to this story but we never did get that BIG bite we were hoping for.
So we ended the trip trolling the reef and catching a few more king fish.
Jim and D.J. thanks again for fishing aboard the Hooked Up and we hope we get a chance to fish with you guys this January when the sails are around.
Captain Taco (954) 764-4344 or toll free at (877) SEA-4344
Aug 10
Today we a special treat we had our old friends Reese and Jeff from Ft Lauderdale and Joe and our old fishing buddy Jacob from Michigan.
We stopped off at the marina on our way out and picked up a dozen goggle eyes (live bait) and went right off shore in about 150 feet of water to do some kite fishing trying to catch a sail fish.
Once we got all 4 live baits suspended from the kites all hell broke loose.
A king fish went after our right short kite bait while J.J. was trying to hook him another one was on our left long. Then still another one on the right long and before we knew what had happen we got 3 out of the four baits were chopped in half and all we had to show for it was one king fish. (RATS)
That was enough of that at $6:50 per bait I knew it was time to move out to deeper water where hopefully the kings would not eat us up.
Once we got into 300 feet of water we set the kite baits right back out there the only problem was that now we were getting no bites at all.
After a good hour and a half without a bite we decided to bring in what we had left of the live baits and set out our trolling gear.
Now we were catching not just fishing.
It only took about 45 min to catch a good hand full of kings so everyone got to catch a couple fish.
Thanks again guys as always enjoyed the heck out of fishing with all of you and lets do it again soon.
Captain Taco (954) 764-4344 or toll free (877) SEA-4344
Aug 11
Today we had Mario and his son Jonathan and their close friend Jack all from Montreal Canada our for a few hours of deep sea fishing aboard the Hooked up off the coast of Fort Lauderdale.
Today we were just looking for some steady action and by god that is just what we got.
We set out our 2 planners running about 45 feet deep and three surface baits skipping across the tops of the waves.
Once again the planners were tearing them up catching kingfish bonitos and even some barracudas. But all of a sudden we got a big bite on one of our planners and at the same time one of our rigger baits got hit.
It turned out to be a couple 20 pound Wahoo's. Our mate today was Kevin and he was all over these fish. Just as the Wahoo on the rigger got within gaffing range BAM he was in the boat. But I'm sorry to say that the other Wahoo on the planner shook head one last time and cut thru our line like it was hot butter.
Well that's fishing but one out of two Wahoo's on mono leader is not bad.
All together we ended up with 5 small barracudas, 4 kingfish, 5 bonitos and one 20 pound Wahoo.
Not a bad morning of fishing way to go guys.
Captain Taco (954) 764-4344 or toll free (877) SEA-4344
