Sep 6
Today was just one of those days that seemed everything thing we did just paid off in a big way.
We started out our morning trip with Jerry and John from Ft Lauderdale and Bill from Texas and Andy from Atlanta Ga.
We started out trolling the reef with 2 planer boards and three surface baits. Today the reef was on fire we were catching king fish and bonitos one after another.
I don't know how many bonitos we caught but we filled the box with them along with a bunch of king fish to boot.
Once again these guys also wanted some good eating fish and king fish while you can eat it there are a lot better tasting fish out here.
We brought in all the trolling gear and started fishing the bottom trying for some snappers. As luck would have it the snappers were snapping and we caught our limit of snappers in about 45 min.
Guys thanks again and we are looking forward to fishing again with you guys soon.
As we pulled back to the dock we our afternoon trip waiting to give their luck a shot aboard the Hooked Up.
We had Dave and his two sons Matt and Daniel from Cincinnati Ohio.
Once again we went right to trolling the reef and YES they were still biting well and we were catching kings one after another.
Since we only had 3 anglers aboard we could only catch 6 kings due to a bag limit but once we caught our limit we went to a ship wreck and set out a live bonito with 3 big trouble hooks in him.
All of a sudden the water exploded and we were Hooked Up.
After a back and forth fight for a good 15 to 20 min up popped this 50 inch Greater Barracuda. Holly cow this one was a monster!
Way to go guys thanks again for fishing aboard the Hooked Up off the coast of Fort Lauderdale.
Captain Taco (954) 764-4344 or toll free (877) SEA-4344
Sep 8
Today we had a shared charter with James and Lorie from Texarkana Texas and brothers Francois and Jean from Switzerland.
Once again we went right to trolling the reef and yes once again there were some king fish and bonitos biting.
After everyone had caught plenty of kings and bonitos we tried slow trolling a live bonito over a ship wreck and BAM we were Hooked Up. This time Lorie got the rod and after a good 15 min of back and forth fight she gat this nice barracuda to the boat.
At this point we had worked our way about 7 miles south of our inlet so we had to run back toward home. As we got to our inlet we decided since we still had one live bonito left in our live well that we would just take a couple min to see if any fish were around the ledge that is just outside of Port Everglades inlet.
It only took about 2 min till BAM we were Hooked Up again with another big barracuda. This time James jumped at the shot of fighting one of these big fish on light spinning tackle.
James fought his fish for about 10 min and just after J.J. grabbed the leader and was about to bring this big barracuda aboard the hooks pulled. (RATS) O well it was still considered a catch since J.J. had the leader in his hand.
I would like to thank all of our anglers today for fishing aboard the Hooked Up and Francois and Jean we are looking forward to fishing with you guys again on Saturday.
Captain Taco (954) 764-4344 or toll free (877) SEA-4344
