Our Daily Fishing Reports

Didam his girlfriend joined us for a late evening trip. Fishing did not get any better on the troll, so instead, we steamed down south to the productive wrecks.

We made a few drops, bringing up a few nice amberjacks. We took some great pictures and sent them home. We trolled our way home catching a decent mahi mahi for the eating.

Thanks for the trip. See you guys next year!

Dave and Amber joined the Miss Bonita 2 for a morning of fishing. The gang started the day catching some bait at the #1 can, quickly filling the live well. We moved on to towards the south putting the trolling spread out to cover some water. The bite was a little slow, so we continued further south to a deep ship wreck towards Hallandale. Joey rigged a live bait and dropped him to the bottom. In no time, they were on! After about 10 minutes, up came a beautiful amberjack from the ocean floor. The guys took quick pictures and sent him home. They repeated their drop for Amber to get her chance… BAM!

She brought up a nicer amberjack than the first! We decided to go a little bit further south and try our luck in Golden Beach. We set up way out in front of the wreck and Joey tried to drop this bait straight the the bottom. He left it sit there right outside the wreck on the oceans muddy floor. I held into the current for a few minutes slowly making our way back towards the wreck. All of a sudden, the rod crumbled over to the water.

I gunned the boat ahead to help set the hook. Dave jumped in the chair and battled this beautiful Warsaw Grouper up to the boat. This is one of the best times of year to catch one of these goliath’s of the sea. We took a great photo and were allowed one per day. This one went on the ice. Thanks for the trip. See you guys next year!

Paul and his whole family joined us today from Texas for an all day trip on the Miss Bonita 2. We purchased some live bait from Capt. Bud Randall as we made our way out of Port Everglades. We started out trolling the reef, zigzagging down the reef from 80 to 250 feet of water. Today, the current was screaming to the north. There was a distinctive blue edge running north to south. It went from dirty dark green water to almost cobalt purplish-blue. It was a gorgeous defined corridor for the fish to travel. As we got down south a bit, there were already a few boats catching some small dolphin. We pushed our way in and we were hooked up to a couple of small, peanut, throw-back mahi. We continued trolling south and started getting bitten by several king mackerel. We still trolled after putting about 4 mackerels in the boat, one of which was about 20 pounds, and got another high line bite which was a black fin tuna. The deep rod doubled over, screaming line, but unfortunately we didn’t get to see him. He chopped us off. He was either a wahoo or a large king mackerel. As we got further south, the edge was becoming even more pronounced. The current was smoking about 6 knots to the north.

We decided to pop the kites on this beautiful edge. We put 2 goggle eyes on the left kite and 2 on the right kite. The trap was set! This is where we could’ve used better luck! It only took about 5 minutes before the left long started freaking out and walking off to the south really fast. By the time I turned and saw what was going on, I yelled for Joey to jump the short bait over the long… “there’s another one!” It was too late. There was another huge Atlantic Sailfish desperately trying to eat the short bait that was tangled with the fish that was going south. Now everything “went south!” As the sailfish on the short was about to eat the bait, the sailfish on the long (with the tangled line) sprung the bait up out of the water and away from the 2nd sailfish. Moments later, the first fish shook his head and he was gone too. Unbelievable! The whole gang got to see both sailfish.

The wind was out of the south-east, the sun was behind us and the water was crystal clear. It was hard not to see what was going on. So, like anyone else would do, we reset hoping to get another bite. We waited and waited, but unfortunately, we never got another shot. The day was coming to an end we had to head home. On the way in, we stopped on the ledge in front of John Lloyd State Park and Port Everglades. Joey pinned a couple of big blue runners on the spinning rods while I slowly bumped them around on the ledge. On our second pass, we got an aggressive bite. A giant barracuda leaped about 6 feet out of the water. The fish came to eye level with me on the bridge. It was cool! Paul’s son, Chris, grabbed the rod as I pulled off of the ledge into deeper water. The giant ‘cuda made several runs and we finally got him in the boat for some pictures and safe release. This was the family’s first ‘cuda… pretty cool! We didn’t get to redeem ourselves after the first sailfish bite, but we wrapped up the end of the day on a great note with a high flying ‘cuda!

See you guys next year!

This afternoon was a typical gorgeous June day. The skies had a few scattered thunderstorms, but that didn’t stop the guys! They headed out right off of Port Everglades, starting the afternoon with the standard trolling spread. They trolled down the reef zigzagging between 80 feet and 150 feet of water, completely covering the water column. We trolled south and managed to catch some real nice king mackerel.

We moved out a little deeper and I saw a school of small black fins feeding and jumping out of the water. I made my way over to them and we caught several. They were about 3-6 pounds each. Small tunas but very tasty! We continued to head off shore and turn back north with the current. I found a beautiful edge where the sargasm weed was starting to build up in a line. I got on the outside edge on the blue water and continued trolling north. All of a sudden I saw 2 large Lagerhead Sea Turtles mating… the male clinging on to the big females back. As I made the pass by them, all 5 rods got bit! There were mahi everywhere! We reeled them all in successfully and I continued to make a circle around the mating turtles. The dolphin just kept biting!

They weren’t the largest mahi, but they were numerous and most of them made the required size limit (20 inch fork length). The limit on these fish is 10 per person or 50 for the boat. On this day, we did not nearly reach that, but we managed to put together a really nice catch! We harvest these fish for their edible value.

They are one of the best eating fish in the ocean and a real treat to fight. The gang had a blast catching the small schoolie dolphin one after another. It happens to be some of the most exciting fishing out in the gulf stream of the Atlantic Ocean. I took a couple quick of the full cooler before we began our fish cleaning marathon.

Hope to see you guys next year!