Big Frasier, Jason and Dr. Vince were aboard for a fast start with a painful finish.  As soon as we put lines in the water we were rewarded with a Pair of 12- 15 pound mahi mahi.  As the morning progressed we still hadn’t caught anything else and the radio was quiet fishing Was slow.  We caught some tilefish next when a scholl of 20-30 nice mahi mahi swam up to the boat.  With no current that day (reason for slow fishing) these fish were not responding to the usual jigs, cut squid, ballyhoo chunks and live finger mullet. One decent dolphin finally took a jig and we put him in the box after allowing him to swim and jump hoping to turn on the other fish.  It didnt work and we watched unbelievably for 15 minutes as the mahi mahi milled around the boat.  Aaaagghhhh!  Sorry guys. I can’t make em bite even on straight 12 pound tiny hook and a live finger mullet.  We did however manage a very respectable yellowedge grouper.

Bottom fishing Ft. lauderdale was remarkable for Peter, Ken and Hans today on the Local Knowledge Trolling and live baiting was unproductive to start our day so we moved to bottom fishing as a day saver.  What a good choice.  We crushed small almaco jacks, banded rudderfish, giant vermillion snappers, and pink porgies.  With the skun k out of the box we tried some more trolling on an edge that had formed in 300 feet of water I had no sooner crossed it when the short deep planer rod armed with a pink and blue sea witch and strip went off.  ANd it went off goog peeling drag bouncing the rod with massive head shakes I knew it was a wahoo.  My beliefs were confirmed shortly there after when a 30 wahoo emerged from the depths I raced from the bridge to help glenn gaff the fish as he had his handsfull on the leader.   With that beauty in the box we trolled back home and picked off 5 kings.  Great day guys

Had to give dad a shout on his 61st.  What a day  good friend Tony, Rj, Mark, Thomas, and D -Waller . finally showed up for their quarterly fishing trip.  And what a trip it was whille was slower than it had been in the previous days their was no lack of action in witty, sharp sarcasm that knows no boundries.  Off color and full color jokes and stories in which decorum prohibits me from repeating.   Through multiple loads of BS we still caught three nicem mahi mahis, 3 tilefish, a nice vermillion snapper and 5 kings.  The crew hopefully will be fully rested and prepared for Tony’s next onslaught in three months.  God Bless us all!

Fishing today on the Local Knowledge was Dan, Steve and Sorn from upstate NY England and Finnland.  Action was fast and furious as the kingfish were on the prowl.  We had a few smaller throwback kings one nice 12-15 # and 13 6-10 fish.  Not a bad day.

In the after noon Bill and Tony from New York and Tampa climbed abord for 12 real nice gafffer mahi mahis and 5 kings.  Now that’s Fishing.

Fishing was good today for Mike, Doug and Jim from Indiana.  We kite fished most of the morning in tight between 100-150 feet of water looking for sailfish.  With only a few chop offs from small kings we bumped the Local Knowledge out to 350 feet of water and deployed the shark baits.  It didnt take long for a tiger shark around 100# to find the scent and the hooks.  After a 15 or 20 minute battle glenn the mate had the beautiful creature next the boat we pulled it in carefully took some photos and released the minature beast unharmed.  Great goin guys.  We then trolled a little bit and managed four kings and a blackfin tuna.  Call us at 954 522 4773

Almost forgot, in the afternoon we had Rich and Alta from California, who had lady luck on their side.  It was Alta’s first fishing trip in her short 60 year span and started it off with a 89 inch beautiful Sailfish which we released unharmed after some photos.  Congrats Alta I wish everyone had your luck.  Not to be outdone Rich followed suit with a sai of his own (but his was only 87 inches) LOL.  Great trip guys

Swordfishing during the day is the new rage here in Fort lauderdale.  And  it is not for the faint of heart.  Catches on average are much larger than those fish caught at night.  Reports of fish between 200 and 500 are quite common with a few sea monsters going bigger than that.  We lost a monster a few weeks ago that would go over 600.  However today we caught a small sword in the 100# range and we are not complaining.  It took only minutes to get the bite in 1700feet of water.  We opted for the electric reel on this one instead of hand cranking the enormous task.  Greg, Paul, Scott, Jim, jason and Don from detroit had a blast seeing this gladiator fromthe deep.  Nice goin guys see you soon.

Fishing continues to be good, with Brian, Darren, Jason, Dave and Matt onboard we rounded up 16 kings a skipjack tuna and one barracuda. Nice goin guys! The kingfish were a little on the small side but what they lacked in size they made up for in aggression.  We probably missed another 10 or 12 fish that were short striking on the planers or skyrocketing our rigger baits.  We did manage one nice king about 20#.  But them little ones taste much better.

Fishing today on the Local Knowledge was pretty good We had Diane, Jenny, Gabe, Rob and Adam aboard for some good action and flat seas.  While we did dodge some rain the day was beautiful overall and we did not dodge the fish.  We caught a sailfish to start, way to go Gabe! We also found four nice mahi mahi, a small skipjack tuna and a small blackfin as well.  Oh yeah 8 kingfish and 15 black belly rose fish way down on bottom in 800 feet on  the electric reel(yummy).

Fort lauderdale’s kingfish bite has been nothing short of amazing this past week.  Ricki, Joe, Joe, Art and Derrick joined us for a fabulous trip.  As soon as we put the first bait in we had a bite and it didn’t stop for six hours. We caught our limit on kingfish and released just about as many more.  We caught them on  the planers and the rigger baits.  Kingfish skyrocketed the rigger baits whie the others slammed the planers.  We then ventured offshore and found a handful of mahi mahi’s.  With the fish box full we called it a day.  Thanks guys.

Fishing today was great in Fort Lauderdale.  We took Theresa, Antwoin and Rick out for some great kingfish action.  Then Big Rick wanted to match up with a shark.  It did not take long to get the bite from a nice 6 foot hammerhead.  Ricky, despite his whimpers managed to wrestle the shark to the boat for a release in about 25 minutes.  Good goin Rick.