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South Florida Fishing Report March 2010

Tracy — Wed, 12 May 2010 23:55:59 +0000

March has been a great month for fishing. We have had plenty of spring breakers here enjoying the sun and the great fishing. There has been a little bit of everything around from sharks and sailfish to kingfish and dolphin fish. There has been a lot of small to medium size blackfin tuna around, which is surprising because we usually only get a handful of the big blackfins each year. Other than that, we are looking forward to a good month in April.

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South Florida Fishing Report – April 28, 2009

Tracy — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 06:27:50 +0000

We picked up a late trip today. Two people pulled into the dock about 5:30 this afternoon wanting to go fishing. We got the boat ready and left the dock around 6:00. We got some of the goggle eyes we had in the bait pen and went fishing. We started out trolling and caught four kingfish. Then we set two kites and some shark baits. Shortly after the sun went down we got a bite on one of the gogs. We started fighting the fish as it swam toward the boat. The spreader lights were on and when the fish got to the edge of the lights it started fighting a lot more. It was a nice mahi-mahi. We had to do some maneuvering with the rod as the fish swam over and under and around the other lines we had in the water. We finally got it into the boat then waited for a shark bite. No luck with that tonight but still a good spur of the moment trip.

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South Florida Fishing Report – April 27, 2009

Tracy — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 06:26:09 +0000

We ended up getting an afternoon trip today. We had two people from Canada with us. We trolled the whole trip and caught seven kingfish. We missed some small mahis and also had a sailfish on for a little while, but we did not catch it. South Florida Fishing Report – April 27, 2009 is [...]

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South Florida Fishing Report – April 26, 2009

Tracy — Sun, 26 Apr 2009 06:24:01 +0000

We ended up having two trips again today. We had five people on the morning trip. We started the trip trolling and caught about 10 kingfish, 6 mahis, and a nice wahoo. Then we went kite fishing and hooked a sailfish pretty quickly. As we were fighting the sailfish we got another bite, but we did not see what it was. We continued to fight the sailfish until we got it to the boat. We measured, took pictures, tagged and released the sailfish. Then we went after the other fish. We fought it for a while before getting it close enough to see that it was a shark. We got the leader and pulled the hook after getting a couple of pictures. On the afternoon trip we had two people. We started trolling and caught 6 kingfish. We then went kite fishing again and caught a nice sailfish. We got the fish to the boat took pictures, measured, tagged and released the sailfish. We kite fished for a little while longer then went back to the dock.

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South Florida Fishing Report – April 25, 2009

Tracy — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 06:21:26 +0000

We had two trips again today. On the morning trip we had six guys celebrating a bachelor party trip. The seas were fairly rough, so we bought goggle eyes and went straight to kite fishing. We had three gogs and one shark bait on the kites and one deep shark bait. We saw a couple of small sharks, but none big enough to eat the shark bait. As we were clearing the kites to go trolling a big hammerhead shark same in on one of the gogs, we pulled it away from it because it was on a mono leader. We got the shark bait in front of it and missed it on the first bite. It came back up on the bait again and this time it found the hooks. It never really made the big run that hammerheads usually do, instead it stayed un the surface. The fight did not last long, but the fish was still green when we got it to the boat. We tried leadering it up several times, and eventually got it close enough for pictures, but it made another run and broke the line. We still had some time left, so we went trolling. There were some kingfish biting but, before we could get to them, we got a bite on the high line. We thought it was a small mahi but after feeding it for a second and hooking it, up jumped a sailfish. We fought that fish for a little while before getting the leader releasing it. We caught both of our fish in the last hour of the trip, then we went back in to pick up our afternoon trip. The afternoon trip we had four people. It was still pretty rough. We started trolling and caught a mahi in the first 15 minutes. We continued to troll and missed a few more bites. Then we trolled further offshore and caught another mahi. We continued to troll and missed a few other fish before heading back to the dock.

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South Florida Fishing Report – April 24, 2009

Tracy — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 06:19:18 +0000

We had two trips today. Our morning trip was supposed to be a four hour, but the busses were running late and got the people there an hour late. We trolled the whole trip and caught one bonito, one kingfish, and six mahis. We also missed a few other bites. The afternoon trip was supposed to be a six hour trip, but the customers showed up late and then got sick after catching a hammerhead shark, so we came in three hours early.

We had a corporate convention trip today. We had six customers from various parts of the world. We started out trying to catch bait, but they were not biting so we moved on to trolling. We trolled for a while without a bite then caught three kingfish on at the same time. While we were trolling a couple of the guys were shouting about shark fishing, so we went to do that. We got three baits out and waited for the bite. It did not take long before the long balloon started coming towards the boat. We put the boat in gear and ran ahead to get the line tight. When the line came tight the fish made a long, hard, fast run. We fought the fish for over an hour before getting it to the boat. Again we brought the fish up to the boat took pictures, measurements, removed the hooks, and tagged and released another big hammerhead shark. We still had some time left on the trip so we went back to trolling. We caught two more kingfish and one spanish mackerel before the trip was over.

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South Florida Fishing Report – April 22, 2009

Tracy — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 06:17:48 +0000

Today we had a mom and her son and daughter from Vermont. We started the trip catching bait then went trolling. We caught a couple of kingfish and missed a few other fish. They wanted to catch something big so we went shark fishing after trolling. It took a while to get a bite but we finally got a big hammerhead shark on the line. We fought it for over an hour before getting it to the boat. We leadered it up to the side of the boat took a measurement, removed the hooks, took some pictures, tagged and released the fish. Then we went to one of the wrecks and caught a nice size amberjack. All in all it was a great day of fishing.

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South Florida Fishing Report – April 20, 2009

Tracy — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 06:15:54 +0000

We picked up three people on a shared charter this afternoon. The boats that went out in the morning brought back some kingfish and mahis so we were looking forward to catching some fish. We began the trip trolling. We missed a few small mahis and a couple of kingfish bites. After an hour of no fish we decided to try shark fishing. We set up our spread of baits and had some more small mahis try to eat our live baits, but they were not big enough to swallow them. Just about the time we were going to give up on the sharks, the bottom rod bent over. We fought the fish for an hour before getting it to the boat, it was a hammerhead shark. We pulled the fish up got a measurement, took pictures, removed the hooks, tagged and released the shark. By the time we finished with the shark it was time to go back.

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South Florida Fishing Report – April 19, 2009

Tracy — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 06:13:57 +0000

Today we had a father and his son and daughter. We started the trip trolling and caught eight kingfish and a couple of bonito. We then went shark fishing. After about a half hour we got a bite on one of the shark baits. We fought the fish for about an hour before getting the leader, it was a hammerhead shark. We pulled the shark close to the boat, got a measurement, took some pictures, removed the hooks we could, then tagged and released the shark. It nice to see the sharks starting to show up, usually they are here earlier in the year.

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South Florida Fishing Report – April 18, 2009

Tracy — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 06:12:06 +0000

We had two trips again today. On the morning trip we had five people that were repeat customers. We went right to trolling because they wanted to catch something to eat. It did not take long before we had our first mahi-mahi bite. We trolled the whole trip and consistently kept catching the mahis. The afternoon trip was a father and his two sons. We trolled for a little while and caught a barracuda. We continued to troll, but with no bites, we gave up on that and tried shark fishing. We did not get any shark bites, but we did miss a couple of small mahis and something else that chopped our bait to pieces. We trolled for a little bit more to end the trip and missed a couple of bites, but no more fish.

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