Randall Duppe, along with his wife and two daughters from Texas chartered the Top Shot Sportfishing charter boat team to do some deep sea charter boat sport fishing in Fort Lauderdale, FL. When the Duppe’s boarded the boat, they requested to catch Mahi Mahi’s or any eating fish. I informed them that in the past few days, Mahi fishing had been very slow, but Kingfish and Tunas have been feeding.
Fifteen to twenty minutes after leaving the dock, lines were in 120 ft. of water at the sea buoy in Fort Lauderdale, 1.8 miles from shore. We started trolling with two planners with sea witches on both planners in front of a double hooked Bonito strips, along with four surface baits. As we trolled the reefs ranging from 80 ft. of water out past the drop off to 180 ft. The whole family took turns catching five Kingfish, four Bonitos and two Barracudas.
At this point, Randall requested to look for Mahi Mahi’s – even being slow for the past two days, I listened to the anglers request and went off shore. I trolled out and hit the depth of 850 ft. of water, but not luck. I did not come across any weed lines, birds, rips or floating debris that would hold the Mahi Mahi’s, but no luck. On the way in, a black shadow appeared on the right long. Sailfish! The bill came out of the water, swatting at the Ballyhoo bait. A swing and a miss and he faded off. There he is again on the center rigger! We tried to entice him to bite, but no luck.
It was now time to head back to the dock. The anglers retired into the a/c salon and enjoyed the relaxing trip back to the dock at Bahia Bar Yachting Center, 801 Seabreeze Blvd. Fort Lauderdale 33316. At the dock the fish, our mate, Dave, filet the fish for the anglers to take home for dinner.
For a successful and adventurous deep sea fishing charter in Fort Lauderdale FL for Sailfish, Shark, Bonito, Mackerel, Swordfish, Snapper, Wahoo, Tuna, Mahi Mahi and Grouper, contact Captain Zsak. - 954-309-7457 or email us at tzsak@bellsouth.net Website: www.topshotfishing.com.
