Today we had Jeremy and Brain from Jacksonville, Ralf from Mississippi, Russ from Pittsburg and Andrea from Millburn Florida.

We started out trolling the reef catching kingfish, bonitos and one nice Wahoo.

Than we brought in all the trolling gear and set up for some kite fishing trying to catch a sailfish.

While we did get 2 different shots at sailfish I sorry to say that both fish managed to jump all over the place and spit the hooks.

However we did manage to catch one BIG barracuda.

Guy’s thanks again for fishing with us aboard the Hooked Up for an action packed day of deep-sea fishing off the coast of Ft Lauderdale.

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Today we had a total of 21 guys fishing with 5 of the boats in our fleet. These guys all work for a cigar company called Al Capone Cigar Company and I’ve got to say these guys were all a blast to fish with.

Aboard the Hooked Up we had Marcel out of Miami Florida, Jono from Tampa Florida (And yes this is how he spells his name) Russ from Atlanta Georgia, and Bob from the city where they make things small New Jersey (LOL).

We started out trolling the reef catching a few kingfish and bonitos a few beers and a LOT of CIGAR SMOKE and some great laughs.

Ok now that everyone had caught fish it was time to switch things up and see if we could catch the biggest fish out of the fleet.

We brought in all of our trolling gear and set out our kites with live baits suspended from them. Ok so the trap was set and the wait was on. We waited and waited and waited and choked on some more cigar smoke and waited some more.

Than all of a sudden as I was giving Jono a hard time about chain-smoking these cigars a big splash by one of our kite bait and we were Hooked Up.

We figured the only way to get a little break from Jono,s smoke was to put him in the chair to fight this fish. No Such Luck Jono was now smoking his cigar and fighting this big fish at the same time.

After a good 7 min fight up popped this monster 51-inch barracuda.

Way to go Jono and look a photo with no cigar in your mouth!!

Marcel and the rest of the gang from Al Capone cigars we had a BLAST fishing with all of you thanks again and we are looking forward to our next SMOKY fishing trip.

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Today we fished with Tom from North Carolina, Lynn from South Dakota, Cheryl and Jay from Virginia and Don from Iowa.

We went right to trolling the reef with 2 planner boards running about 45 to 50 feet down and 3 baits skipping across the surface.

Today the planner boards were on fire with everyone catching 12 kingfish, a bunch of bonitos and 2 nice barracudas.

To all of our anglers today we had a ball fishing with you aboard the Hooked Up off the coast of South Florida.

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Today we got a last min call from a few guys who were down on a softball tournament and got the afternoon off and thought it might be fun to go out fishing for a few hours. I don’t think they had any idea of what great fishing they were about to have!!

We had Ricky, Jeremy, Alex and Blaine.

Since we were out for only 3 hours and this gave us just over 2 hour of actually fishing time we went right to kite fishing with 4 live baits suspended from the kites.

Once all the bats were set it only took a few min till we got our first bite.

Blaine jumped in the chair and the fight was on. After a good 10 min fight Blaine got a nice barracuda to the boat.

Ok now the skunk was out of the box so right back out went the bait and once again the trap was set.

All of a sudden a big sailfish popped up and was after our right long kite bait. Within seconds the sail had caught the bait and line was screaming off the reel. Ricky jumped in the chair and the fight was on.

At first this sail was dancing all over the surface but than he headed straight down and it turned into a gulling back and forth tug a war but Ricky hung in there and 15 min later Ricky had his first sailfish to the side of the boat.

We got a couple of pictures of him swimming next to the boat and J.J. cut the line right at the hook and we all watched him swim away in great shape to fight again another day.

(Guy’s thanks again for taking the time to fish with us aboard the Hooked Up.) O yea and best of luck with your softball tournament.

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Today we took out Alex, Shawn, Kit and Stanley all from Dallas Texas.

We started out trolling the reef but for some reason the reef seemed to shut down on us today and all we caught trolling was 1 kingfish.

Ok so there is more than 1 way to skin a cat so in came all the trolling gear and off they went looking for some good bottom to fish.

They went to an old spot we have not fished in years and man was that the right choice they ended up catching a bunch of bottom fish.

They ended up catching 1 nice mutton snapper along with 4 vermilion snappers and 25 nice tilefish.

Greg and J.J. way to stick it out and keep trying different types of fishing till BAM you guys hit the bottom and it paid off.

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Today we had Frank, Jessica, Chris, Linda, 9-year-old Chris and Granddad whose name we guess was DaDa all from Fort Lauderdale Florida.

We started out trolling the reef looking for some good eating fish and ended up catching a bunch of kingfish.

While the kings are ok eating they really are not the best fish in the sea so we made a left hand turn and headed out to a little deeper water in search of some better eating fish. Off sore we did manage to catch a nice 9-pound dolphin fish and a big skip jack tuna.

Ok time for plain B so in came the trolling gear and out went the kites with live baits suspended from the kites.

Here where fishing got a bit slower for us but ended up being the best move of the day.

Once the baits were all set out of the kites J.J. seen a big splash by our left long bait and with in seconds line started peeling off the reel. Jessica jumped in the chair and the fight was on. After a 10 min back and forth tug a war Jessica reeled up this big barracuda.

Nice going Jessica!!

J.J. got the baits set right back out and all of a sudden out of nowhere up popped a sailfish on our short right kite bait.

Once this sail caught the bait we let him just swim away with the bait for a good 10 to 15 seconds than Greg went ahead with the boat to get the line tight as quick as possible and BAM we were Hooked Up with this sailfish jumping all over the place. Little 9year old Chris jumped in the chair and the fight was on.

This Chris is one tough little guy and he was determined to catch this sailfish. The fish would pull out 20 to 30 feet of line and Chris would gain 20 to 30 feet back and forth this went on but at last Chris hung in there and he finally got his first sailfish to the boat.

WAY TO GO CHRIS

Wow what a fun action packed day of fishing! Guys thanks soooo much it was a blast and we’re looking forward to fishing with you guys again soon.

Captain Taco (954) 764-4344 or toll free @ (877) SEA-4344

Today we started out our day fishing with Paul from Fort Lauderdale and Mike from St Louis.

We started out trolling the reef with 2-planner board running about 45 to 50 feet down along with 3 baits skipping across the surface.

Once again the bonitos were biting like mad dogs. It seemed we would catch 5 bonitos than a kingfish 5 more bonitos and than another king.

It was an action packed morning of fishing with us landing 7 kings but only keeping 4 due to the limit being 2 per person 2 nice barracudas and I lost count at about 1,000,000 bonitos. (LOL)

Paul and Mike thanks again for fishing with us aboard the Hooked Up and we’re looking forward to fishing with you guys again soon.

As we pulled back to the dock we had Dave, Jared, Alex, Matt and Rata all eager to give their luck a shot at some deep- sea fishing off the coast of South Florida.

Once again the reef was full of life and once again we ended up catching bonitos, kings and a couple barracudas.

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Well guys once again it’s time for our annual boat yard trip. So unfortunately, we will be out of the water for the next week. Stay tuned for more great fishing trips aboard the Hooked Up begging on September 17^th.  Same bat channel same station.

Today we set out fishing off the coast of Fort Lauderdale with Terri, Stan, Mann, and Damitri.

Once again we trolling the reef and the Bonitos were biting like mad dogs! We worked our way to the south and tried dropping some lives baits on a ship wreck. The second the live bait hit the bottom, BAM! The rod bent over and line started screaming off the reel like a freight train! Teri jumped in the chair and the fight was on. After a ten minute struggle Terri boated a nice Amber Jack.

After Terri caught his Amber Jack, we tried some deep dropping for some good eating fish and ended up with a bundle of great eating tilefish.

We had a few miles to go to get back to our harbor, so we decided to high-speed troll. All of a sudden, without warning, our wire line bent over and once again, we were Hooked Up. Stan jumped in the chair, and six minutes later up popped a nice Wahoo.

Way to go Stan!

Guy’s thanks again for fishing with us aboard the Hooked Up.

Captain Taco

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Today we fish with Nikolay from Kentucky and his brother Drago from Tampa.

We started trolling the reef, catching bonitos one after another along with three nice king fish. Infact the reef fishing was so good that at several different times they were both fighting fish at the same time.

Then we decided to go off shore looking for Mahi-Mahi. While the Mahi-Mahi has been hard to find this year, out of the blue, one jumped on out line. Nikoly jumped in the chair and within five minutes, dinner was in the box! Nikolay and Drago thanks again! It truly was a blast fishing with you guys.

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Sep 5

This trip actually started on the 15^th of December 2010 when I was aboard the cruise ship Oasis. I met a dentist named Randy out of Boca Raton Florida. He had told me he does a lot of volunteer work with troubled kids and with some of the players from the Miami Heat basketball team.

So off we went, fishing with Kyle and his father Hugh, James, Twan, and Miami heat player, Udonis. Once again we started out trolling the reef, catching bonitos. Then we decided to venture off shore in search of Mahi-Mahi. While we never did find any Mahi-Mahi we did end of catching one black fin tuna.

Randy sorry fishing was on the slow side today but it seemed everyone had a ball all the same.

Captain Taco

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Today we had a shared charter with Arty, Maddy and Rob from Coral Springs Florida, Eloy from New Mexico and Terry from Michigan.

We started out trolling the reef with 2 planner boards running deep and 3 baits skipping across the surface.

Today while we did have a good hard north current witch usually means good fishing trolling was just not producing many fish. While we did manage to catch a bonito that was it and we knew it was time for a change.

Captain Greg decided to try 2 different kinds of fishing at the same time.

So in came the trolling gear and out went the kites with live baits suspended from the kites. After all the live baits were set out J.J. got out our rod made for deep drops and dropped 5 chunks of bait on one rod and down they went.

This was the perfect plan while we were waiting for that big bite out of the kite they started catching snappers and triggerfish.

Than out of nowhere up popped this sailfish and with on seconds he took the bait and we were Hooked Up.

Terry jumped in the chair and the fight was on. It took a good 15 min till Terry had his first sail to the side of the boat. The good news was Terry caught a big sailfish the bad news was that all the pictures Captain Greg took were just photos of water and splashes after the fish was back in the water.

Can’t really put the blame on Greg because I go threw this all the time while we really want the pictures to post on the reports the most important thing is to not run over the fish so most of our attention is on driving and photos take a back seat.

Guy’s thanks again for fishing with us aboard the Hooked Up off the coast of Fort Lauderdale.

As we got back to the dock we had Drew and his son J.P. from Kentucky eager to give their luck a shot aboard the Hooked Up.

Once again we tried trolling with no luck so once again out went the kites and BAM once again the live baits were the trick with Drew landing a nice trophy barracuda.

Guy’s thanks again for fishing with us sorry fishing was slow today BUT we will make it up to you guys next time.

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Today we fished Dino and his son Enzio from West Virginia. Apparently yesterday Dino and Enzio were having a good time swimming in the ocean and having lunch just pretty much having a good time and forgot to wake up Anzio’s mom AKA Dino’s wife and well lets just say she got a little sunburned (Well Done) and she was just not all that happy with these 2 guys. It was a good day to get away and let her cool down!

So that’s how we ended up fishing aboard the Hooked Up today. (LOL)

We started out trolling the reef with 2 planers boards and 3 surface baits. Our plan was to troll to the south toward a wreck off the coast of Hallandale Beach.

We were hopping to catch some kingfish and bonitos on the way but all we could catch was bonitos.

Once we got off the coast of Hallandale we brought in all the trolling gear and Greg set out 2 small bonitos with trouble hooks in them. One of the baits was set out on the surface while the second was sent down deep on a downrigger.

I must admit that at first things did not look so good over this wreck. We slow trolled these perfect little baits all over the wreck again and again all the time there was a dive boat waiting for us to move so they could dive.

Ok it was a good try so just as we were pulling away from the wreck the deep line popped off the down rigger, the rod bent over and line started screaming off the reel. (WE WERE HOOKED UP)

At first Greg hung on to the rod as I started pulling us further and further away from the wreck so this sea monster could not get us back into the wreck. Finally after what seemed like for ever (90 seconds) we were far enough away.

Enzio jumped at the rod and the fight was on. Now honestly I do this fishing thing almost everyday and we catch some fish and some get away but this one was a cliff hanger because we had this big fish on such light tackle and you could see how badly Enzio wanted to catch this fish.

Not to worry this is not a sad Hemingway fish story because after a good 15 min Enzio caught the big one that did not get away.

I can’t remember the last time I seen a kid jumping up and down yelling YEA YEA YEA!!  Nice going Enzio a 50 plus inch barracuda on 15 pound test.

Dino and Enzio thanks so much for fishing with us and we are looking forward to fishing for sailfish with you guys this winter.

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We started out fishing September when Carsten and Vanessa from Goch Germany drove up to the boat looking to go fishing for a few hours.

We started out trolling the reef looking for some kingfish but as it turned out the bonitos were biting like mad dogs. We were catching pretty much as many small bonitos as we wanted.

We kept trolling the reef but all we kept catching were bonitos, bonitos and more bonitos.

Ok time for a change so we brought in the trolling gear and sent down one of these little bonitos about 210 feet down on a wreck. BAM we were Hooked Up and this was no bonito.

Carsten jumped in the chair and the fight was on. I pulled ahead with the boat so the fish on the other end could not get us back into the wreck as Carsten reeled as fast as he could. When it was all said and done up popped this 15 pound black grouper.

Holly cow there were other types of fish out here today! (LOL)

Carsten and Vanessa thanks again for fishing with us today aboard the Hooked Up and have a great cruse aboard the Oasis.

Captain Taco (954) 764-4344 or toll free @ (877) SEA-4344