Jan 30 Ft. Lauderdale fishing charters / Sailfish

Our Ft. Lauderdale fishing charters ( as expected for this time of year) are once again tending to focus a little more on Sailfish. There are some Kingfish around with an occasional larger one, but most still remain small. Several Wahoo have hit the fish box with the largest around 20 pounds. We did try the Grey Tiles again yesterday and they bit very well, but again smaller fish. They are absolutely fantastic eating. Mahi-Mahi have been virtually non existent. But Sailfishing is again on the upswing and the fish are big. Pictured are Warren (birthday), Chad, and Greg with a couple of Sailfish flags. These two fish were released at boatside without taking them out of the water. The interesting part of this trip was we had three Sailfish bites and two of the three were on live baits (Goggle Eyes) fished out of the outriggers while we had a full spread of Goggle Eyes hanging from the kites. We catch a good number of fish out of our riggers when kite fishing, but seldom do the riggers out fish the Kites. Today they did. Often it is as simple as the rigger bait being in front of a passing Sail, as we try to fish our rigger baits off to the side and away from the kite baits to get a bite from a fish that might slip by otherwise. Our rigger baits were very deep in the water column on this trip due to a very slow north current, and we felt the fish were holding deeper than usual due to cloudy water and that slower current. Kite baits when presented properly are forced to struggle on the surface. That struggling bait calls Sailfish in and up from a ways off as many of you know. For whatever reason we got both the fish that ate those deeper rigger baits, both big fat fish, and jumped off the smaller Sailfish of the trip on the right short kite bait. Light tackle Sailfishing is fun and often spectacular. They’re not the state fish by accident. With the approaching cooler weather and NE winds in the forecast we will certainly be leaning a little more towards these Sails as a go to fish on our Ft. Lauderdale fishing charters.  90 to 110 feet of water was the depth on this action, just a mile off the beach. We’ll be hunting those Wahoo as well.

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