Fishing Aboard The "Hooked Up"

Submitted by Taco Hooked Up Sportsfishing

Submitted on 06/02/2010
Fishing Spot:
Atlantic Ocean (FL)
Fort Lauderdale, FL United States United States
Tuesday, May 25. 2010
 
This morning we started out with a father and son team Vic dad and his son Chris from Up State New York.
 
 
We started out trolling the reef working our way up to the north off the coast of Pompano Florida.
 
We had some great fishing on our way up we ended up catching a box full of king fish and bonitos and even managed to catch a nice black fin tuna.
 
Once we got up to the north we brought in all our trolling gear and sent a live bait down to the bottom on a ship wreck. I don’t think the bait made it all the way down when BAM we were Hooked Up. Chris jumped in the chair and the fight was on.
 
After a 10 min fight up popped a nice amber jack. Well that was just too easy so we had to try it again. But this time as we dropped we got cut off by something with very sharp teeth.
 
Ok we thought we’d show him so on our next drop we used a wire leader with 2 hooks in the live bait.
 
What happen next we never expected but sure enough as soon as the bait got to the bottom we were Hooked Up. This time once we got the fish to the boat or should I say (fishes) we had caught 2 amber jacks at the same time.
 
 
What a great trip we ended up with total of 4 amberjacks and all the kings, Bonitos and one tuna.
 
 
Vic and Chris thanks again hope to fish you lucky guys again soon.
 
As we got back to the dock we had husband and wife Mike and Misha eager to give their luck a shot.
 
This time we went right to kite fishing with 4 live baits suspended from the kites. You’ve heard when it rains it pours? I’ve got to say that today was the right day to be fishing aboard the Hooked Up It seemed we could do no wrong today because by the end of our second trip today Mike and Misha had caught 3 monster black fin tunas and two that’s right 2 big sailfish.
 
 
What a GREAT DAY OF FISHING!! To all of our anglers today thanks so much.
 
 
Captain Taco (954) 764-4344 or toll free (877) Sea-4344
 
 
 
Wednesday, May 26. 2010
 
Today we had a shared charter with Peter from Seattle Washington and Barry from Jasonville Florida.
 
 
These guys were hoping on a couple more folks to split the cost but since we had no one else they each paid a little more than they were expecting to and we took a little less and off we went. I felt a little pressure I put on myself because these guys did pay a bit more and I wanted to do my best to try and keep them busy catching and not just fishing.
 
Having said that I knew the trolling the reef would be my best bet to put fish in the box.
 
We started out trolling the reef and things were going good we were catching king fish and bonitos pretty good. Before I knew it we had our limit of kings and more bonitos than we needed. I knew that Barry would like nothing more than to take home a dolphin or two for dinner so I decided to head out to deeper waters.
 
At first we had no bites off shore and I had heard of no one catching any dolphin fish. But just as I turned the boat to start heading back toward shore one of our rigger popped out the rod bent over and a nice dolphin was jumping behind the boat. GREAT this was just the fish that Barry wanted BUT someone and I’m not going to mention any names picked up the rod and jerked the rod hard to try to set the hook that was already set and the hook came flying back at the boat.
 
All you can do is have a good laugh and say O well that’s fishing. (LOL)
 
 
Guys we really enjoyed having you guys out fishing with us and Barry next time well you know what I am trying to say (LOL)
 
 
Captain Taco (954) 764-4344 or toll free (877) SEA-4344
 
 
 
Thursday, May 27. 2010
 
Today we had Mark and Mike from South Carolina off for a bit off deep sea fishing aboard the Hooked Up off the coast of Ft Lauderdale.
 
 
We started out picking up some live goggle eyes (live bait) from the bait boat and headed out. We did not have enough wind to fly our kites so we started out trolling hopping that later on the wind would pick up.
 
As it turned out trolling was producing some nice King Fish and bonitos. We were catching the kings and bonitos one after another but we still did not have enough wind to fly our kites.
 
Than all of a sudden we got a BIG bite and I thought it might be a small yellow fin tuna but after mark fought him for a good 10 min a big jack carvel popped up.
 
 
Dam those fish make you wonder what the heck it is on the other end. Don’t get me wrong it is one hell of a good fight but you kind of get your hopes up thinking it might be a yellow fin and when you see what it is it is a bit of a disappointment to say the least.
 
 
I decided to spend a little time trolling off shore and while we never found schools of dolphin we did manage to catch one dolphin.
 
We ended the trip slow trolling our live baits and caught a couple more kings.
 
 
Mark and Mike thanks again.
 
 
Captain Taco (954) 764-4344 or toll free (877) Sea-4344