Today Matt from Baltimore, Matt from New York, Henry from Organ, Henry Sir from Sebastian Florida, Kevin from New Jersey, And Mike also from Sebastian Florida spent the morning fishing aboard the Hooked Up
We went trolling the reef and ended up catching a box full of king fish and a couple of bonitos
Thanks again guys for a fun morning of fishing.
That same after noon we had a wild bunch on the boat. We had the crew that sells the Miami Dolphin tickets for Pro Player station (Joe Robbie Stadium)
I knew thing were going to get a little wild when the first thing I saw as we were backing in from our morning charter was this crazy bunch of people holding up this BIG taco bell hat that they wanted me to wear. The second thing that gave me a clue about this wild bunch was the BEER and I mean lots of it.
O BOY what the heck am I in for!!
We had John, Adam, Scott, Brooke, Shawn and Patrice all from right down here in sunny South Florida.
I’ve got to say that I did not think that a few bonitos and kingfish was what these guys were looking for. I knew it was going to take a BIG fish to satisfy this group.
So we went right to kite fishing with some live baits suspended from them and a couple of big shark baits down deep. Now usually when we fish live baits out of the kite we use mono leaders so if a sailfish tries to eat the bait he won’t feel the wire. Today I looked out and seen a big hammer head shark coming at one of our kite baits like a freight train so I yelled down at Greg to lift the bait out of the water so the shark would not eat that one and just bite threw the leader as if it was hot butter. Well I guess Greg knew something I didn’t because he just stood there and watch this sea monster eat the bait. I yelled down NOW WHAT Greg just smiled and turned around and said I thought I’d put wire leaders out today.
Well there you have it we were feeding the shark and we really had a chance of catching it to. Yes we did have wire leaders out but we were fighting this fish with a TLD 25 in other words a very small rod and reel for a fish this big.
This one was not so easy to catch it took over 45 min to get him to the side of the boat but at last we got the fish close enough to cut the leader close to his mouth so there would not be any string dragging behind him and we knew that the hook should rust out in no time. Great the fish swam away in great shape and we got everyone pumped up o yea and mention we had a lot of
beer on board?
Ok so back to it we put the kites right back out there and one of the guys said he really wanted to catch a sailfish so he could reel it to the boat side to get a measurement of his catch he
really wanted a sailfish hanging in his APT.
I told them that the Miami Dolphins had a better chance of winning the Supper Bawl this year than we had of seeing a sailfish today.
All I’ve got to say is put your money on the Miami Dolphins this year because about 5 min after the words came out of my mouth there was a sailfish jumping behind the boat. We never did see him coming and never really got a good hook up so he shot us the fin and swam away.
At least that was pretty cool we all got to see one. But wait 5 mi n after that we seen another one just jumping behind the boat for no reasons what so ever. O Well that’s pretty cool we got to see two and now all that beer I was talking about earlier well it was now about gone and they had broken into my after work stash and time was running out.
We started reeling in all the baits when YEP you guessed it another one and this time we seen it before he got a chance to eat the bait. So this time we feed him good let him run with the bait came tight and BAM we were hooked up FINALLY got the fish on and all the other rods were already cleared and we had a good feeling about catching this one.
We got all ready to take a measurement just about to grad the leader and well don’t want to point any fingers but someone was more interested in watching this beautiful sailfish jumping and forgot to keep the line tight by reeling. (THAT’S WHY THEY CALL IT FISHING NOT CATCHING).Yep it got away right next to the boat but that’s alright everyone got to get a good close look at the fish and now they all got to come back again before football sea starts to get their revenge.
Thanks you guys soooooo much for a great time.
Well the fish are biting and the laughs are flowing so come on down and lets have some laughs and a great day of fishing.
Captain Taco 965-764-4344