Fishing this week has been very good. Our best luck on the daytime trips has been for the vermillion snappers. We're catching them in 200-300' for water on chicken rigs baited with squid pieces. As soon as you hit the bottom your getting bites. Average size is 1 pound fish but alot fo them have been the biggest vermillion I've ever seen with quite a few 4-5 pounders coming in. Couple of our trips this past week we've caught over 100 snappers. Night time fishing has been good for yellowtails mostly in 45-65' of water, chumiming the water and using silversides for bait. I wasn't working the trip but I heard one night they caught 3 mutton snappers over 15 pounds and a few other smaller ones. Our big fish story this week again was our weekly swordfish trip on Friday night. This week only 1 swordfish but it was about 170 pounds, one of our biggest yet since we've been running our Friday swordfishing trip special. We caught it on the 275' bait with a dead squid as bait. We had a blue strobe light 15' up the 300# mono leader with a single 11/0 hook. It was a really nice fight on a penn 50W spooled with 80# test.
We didn't get many charters this week for sportfishing but still caught a couple really nice fish. Capt. Johann caught a 9 1/2' Bull shark that took almost 2 hours to get in. This fish weighed somewhere over 300 lbs. And I caught the first sailfish of the season for our fleet yesterday. It was a little guy, maybe 4 1/2 feet. He ate a pink seawitch on a planer bait of all things. I thought it was a barracuda when it was jumping until I saw the bill come out of the water. What a nice little suprise that was. About 100' of water 1 mile of Ft. Lauderdale. We got a quick photo and the fish swam away strong. About an hour later, we put the kites up and altough we didnt't get any bites, I saw 2 sailfish freejumping inside of where I was set up. Its a great sign, and I think the sailfish are going to show up a little early this year. They might even be here right now.
Anyway, hope to have you guys fishing with us, give us a call. We're always ready to go fishing. Until next week, cya on the water.
