June 2011 Fort Lauderdale Deep Sea Fishing Charter Captains Blog

6- 19-11  Fort Lauderdale fishing / offshore

6- 5-11  Fort Lauderdale fishing /reef fishing

6- 1-11  Ft. Lauderdale Deep Sea Fishing / Family Fun

6-2-11  Ft. Lauderdale Deep Sea Fishing / Family Fun

June 19 - Fort Lauderdale fishing / offshore  

Our Fort Lauderdale fishing has been up and down on this full moon. One group we had pleasure of fishing was the Malone family out of Oak Hill, California this week. Nice folks with two personable and well behaved kids ( Austin and Dylan). We had a good time. Mr. Malone landed and released a Spinner Shark on light tackle near the inlet, after a first fish broke our leader with his spinning twisting jumps. These are brutally strong fish and determined and often spectacular fighters. One fish on the wish list was a Swordfish but a trip offshore to the Swordfish grounds produced only one bite on the Swordfish bait. All was certainly not lost as a nice full grown White Marlin was landed and released by Mrs. Malone a scant three miles from the Swordfish area. Our weather is beautiful if not a little dry. Often our afternoon trips encounter a shower or two, but no rain as of late. Sea conditions are essentially calm with a cooling breeze in the afternoons. Good weather here for our Fort. Lauderdale fishing trips.  Happy Fathers Day.   Capt. Rick

 

 

June 5 - Fort Lauderdale fishing / reef fishing 

Fort Lauderdale fishing, and especially fishing on the reefs, has been productive. We are continuing to catch Kingfish on the reefs along with the usual Bonito or “Little Tunny”  as they are properly called mixed in the same depth. Inside 150 feet of water has been best. About every seventh or eighth Bonito turns into a Blackfin Tuna as we catch them essentially on the same rods and using the same presentation. Makes for a nice surprise.  Seems the Tuna pull just a little bit harder most of the time than a Bonito. Fun to catch either way. We have also caught a couple of smaller Wahoo (12-15 #) while fishing the reef and targeting the above species. When we have tried for the Wahoo we haven’t connected, so it’s nice to get lucky and catch an incidental one. We have spent some time fishing on some shallow wrecks on spinning tackle and this has given us some assorted species of Jacks, but also nice snappers. Pictured is a fine Mutton Snapper caught by John aboard Marlin My Darlin who actually used to be a commercial fisherman in the Northeast. Hope you find this Fort Lauderdale fishing report helpful.   

 

June 1- Ft. Lauderdale Deep Sea Fishing / Family Fun

 

Fort Lauderdale Deep Sea fishing can be just the ticket for a family group looking to have some fun in the sun. We had the pleasure of hosting just such an outing aboard Marlin My Darlin last Sunday. When the weather is right, the fish are biting, and the crew and the charter click, then good things happen. My Sunday team of Tom and Tommy Kopper crewed just such a charter for Richard, Julie, Rick, Katie, Ann and Ricky D. A trip to a shallow water ship wreck yielded respectable sized Mutton Snappers on light tackle. Some Bonito and average sized Kings obliged and bent the rods. The fish of the day was a beautiful fat Kingfish that took a deep trolled bait and rumor has it put up a memorable tussle before posing with that infamous toothy Kingfish smile in that happy picture. Fort Lauderdale deep sea fishing= family fun today.  Just add water (and sunshine).     

 

June 2 - Ft. Lauderdale deep sea fishing / Aussies

 

Ft. Lauderdale deep sea fishing was fun today with a bunch of “Boys from down under” (Aussies). We had some pretty good action up on top of the reefs and all our fish were caught by trolling. We had a two boat charter and the competition was on. Braided line fished with planer boards and long leaders out the back resulted in the most bites. We fished Bonito belly strips behind a colorful sea- witch / rubber skirt combo on those braided lines that Andrew cut in the usual teardrop shape. There’s an art to cutting a perfect (or near perfect!) strip bait and Andrew has gotten very adept at thinning and shaping these baits. Only Andrew wasn’t here today, so Ean (who cuts a mean strip himself) ran the cockpit and was more than happy to load the rods with the strips. It makes a difference to have a pretty bait as most fishermen are quick to realize. Bonito strips and Ballyhoo fished on the surface on monofilament 40# line also scored some good bites. Kingfish, Bonito, Tuna and Mahi-Mahi on an  AM charter. Really good fishing and some really great accents as well. Our Ft. Lauderdale fishing deep sea fishing charter was fun today with the Aussies. There’s some fish on the rack too that you can’t see in the photo.  

Tight lines, Capt Rick

 

 

 

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