Winds today were east northeast at 8-14
mph, seas running 3-4 ft., blue waters on the drop off that sits in 120 ft. of
water off of Fort Lauderdale FL. Jason
Frese and Melissa Bechtel, from
We stopped and purchased a dozen Goggle
Eyes from T & T Bait and headed out to our drop off which is 1.8 miles from
shore to the sea buoy in
Five minutes into it, a black shadow
appeared on the right short kite bait - Dorsal out of the water and moving very
lethargically. I told our mate, Dave, to
raise and lower the baits so that the splashing would entice the Sailfish. With no luck, he swam away. The next two sightings were Sailfish and they
did the exact same thing. Jason asked why
were they not feeding, to which I responded that it was an excellent
question. Finally, the next pod of
Sailfish appeared - this time they were hungry enough and did not hesitate to
eat the bait. Marissa was our first
angler to subdue the Sailfish and twenty-five minutes later brought the fish to
the boat. Pictures were taken and the
Sailfish was released. Our next fish
came on the right short, extremely aggressive, chasing the bait from the
kite. Finally he grabbed the bait, came
out of the water and tail walked towards the boat putting on a fantastic
show. The line went slack as the hook
pulled out of the Sailfish and he swam away.
We reset a little bit south of the sea buoy
in
It was time to head back. For a successful and adventurous deep sea
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