South Florida Winter Report
January 14, 2017
Fort Lauderdale
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Dolphin (Mahi Mahi)
King Mackerel (Kingfish)
Sailfish
Swordfish
Trip Summary
Trip Summary
Captain Mike here with Good Hit Sportfishing, I have a couple winter reports for you guys, so here goes nothing.
Last month we had a crazy month, swordfishing, sailfishing, and kingfishing. We had great success on a full moon Swordfishing trip, catching one swordfish exceeding 350lbs plus. We caught the fish 100' below the surface, on a 9" squid. The fish hit around 1:30 am as soon as the moon rose and we landed the fish at 3:00 am. It was quite the battle. Not only was the fish beautiful, but the color of the meat was orange, which is called a pumpkin. The best quality of swordfish you can eat, supposedly due to eating red shrimp in the Gulf of Mexico.
The Next trip trip I want to talk about was Late December. We headed out with 4 young guys who wanted to catch a sailfish, and started in 140' of water directly off of Port Everglades. Fishing with 2 kites, and six lines, all baits were live threadfin herring caught fresh the day before. We quickly caught a double header sailfish, with less than 30 minutes into fishing. After fighting the fish into 250' of water, we decided to deploy the lines back in the water exactly where we were. I Bet you cant guess what happened 5 minutes later? ANOTHER DOUBLE HEADER, catching all the boys their first sailfish before 9am!
First Week of January has been pretty productive as well , catching limits of kingfish on the troll, and catching Sailfish kite fishing when we have enough wind. This week we have Fresh Live Bait, which doubles our odds of catching cool Pelagic Fish.
I hope you enjoy my Post
Captain Mike
Good Hit Sportfishing