Feb 2010

Fishing in Fort Lauderdale in Feb can be real good, there are normally some sailfish still hanging around and the springtime fish are starting to make a showing like mahi mahi, amberjacks and kingfish and wahoos. On the 2^nd Brian, Brent and Mark decided to fish Fort Lauderdale with us and we started the day with a bang. After a quick stop at the sea buoy to catch a couple of speedos and blue runners we raced to a deep water wreck I had marked some amberjacks on the other day while trolling. The first bait no sooner touched the bottom when a large jack ate the bait. Brian jumped in the chair and slugged it out for the next 20 minutes before we got the leaders some pictures and a nice release. Brent was next and also had a insta bite. He also slugged it out for about 20 minutes before he subdued it and it was Marks turn. Mark also caught his fish and since everyone was pretty beat up from the jacks we decided to do some trolling and catch a couple of kings before calling it a day. Mark, Kathy and Mary caught a nice kingfish and a huge blacktip spinner shark with us on the 6^th. The 7^th brought us Misty and Rachel from Maine and Dave and Susan from Michigan. Everyone caught some kings and we scored a couple of jacks as well. On the 8^th Ryan and Brad from California had a great day with us as Ryan caught a sailfish and both guys caught a 20# mahi mahi we finished up the day with 3 giant amberjacks. Nice goin guys. Bad weather blew us out for a few days and we resumed on the 15^th with Cory and Rhonda from Canada who each caught amberjacks and a king. The 18^th was tough in the morning with Neno and his five kids we started nat the bouy and caught some blue runners which the kids loved but it slowed from there. We tried the wrecks but the jacks weren’t there we trolled but nothing doing that either we finally caught a barracuda. In the afternoon it picked back up and Mike, Nick and Patrick from Ny caught a jack some kings and a barracuda. The 19^th we had Tom, Sammie from Miami and Richie. We went way offshore to swordfish Fort Lauderdale. The first drop to bottom in 1800 feet we had no bite so we brought the bait back up to reset and when it was thirty feet from the boat a 250# blue marlin swarmed it but didn’t eat. We also pitched a live bait but it swam off but I had a feeling we were in for a great day. On the third drop we hooked a fish but pulled it off a short time later. On the next drop we were connected and in a big way. It took us five hours to catch the sea monster a huge 600# thresher shark, way to go guys. We had the same group the next day and we hammered the kings and some tilefish.

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