Guys,

We are setting out on Saturday night to fish the swordfish tournament off Ft. Lauderdale.  It should be a great night and as you know, with the success of our Friday Night Swordfishing trips that we run every week, we’ve been having some good luck.  Capt. Adam is going to be running the trip and we’ve got a bunch of the guys that always fish the Friday night trip with us going out there to try their luck.  I think there is a couple spots open still for the trip if anyone wanted to get on with us.  I don’t know all the particulars of the trip, but if you are interested call Adam about it.  (954)295-3692  He’s handling the trip down to the nitty gritty, not me, so if you have any questions about the trip or if you want to get on it, call him up and ask.  He says he’s got a good shot in it and I for one would have to agree.  There aren’t many guys that swordfish half as much as he does, and the fish he’s been bringing in would have won a lot of the tournaments lately.  Anyway, wish us luck, we’ll be out Friday night on the open boat swordfish trip and then again on the Saturday night Sword fishing tournament.  Good luck to everybody fishing it, it should be a fun night.

Hey guys,

Captain Andy is on vacation fishing in Alaska this week, so I will be writing the reports until he gets back in town.  Fishing was really good today, we had a couple charters on our drift fishing boats, the Mary B III and the Catch My Drift.  Both trips were great and we caught a lot of fish.  On the Catch My Drift we had a company that manufactures and sells fire sprinkler equipment on the boat.  They were treating their employees and customers to a nice day of fishing in Fort Lauderdale.  We caught a whole mess of bonitos which kept everyone busy winding fish in the whole trip.  We also caught a few mutton snappers, mostly throw backs, but one keep sized one. 

The Mary B III went out the same time with another private drift fishing charter.  We caught about the same on that trip, lots of bonitos and some kingfish.  One of the kingfish was a beauty, about a 15 pounder.  The bonitos are really biting good out there these past few weeks.  They will probably be biting for a few more weeks and then we won’t see them again until next summer.  I’m glad they bit so good this year.  We caught a lot more this year than we have in years prior. 

The swordfish trip that we run every Friday night went great this week.  We started off about 15 miles offshore where we normally set up in the middle of the Gulfstream.  We set out our rigged up squids with light sticks and flashing strobes.  Right away after we got our last baits out, we get the bite.  It was a big one and a young guy hooked into it.  He fought it for a few minutes but it tired him out pretty early on and he handed the rod off.  Glen Boehme, from Kings Park New York,  fought the fish for over an hour and half but finally got him to the boat.  It was a huge battle and near the end, I don’t know who was more tired, the fish or Glen.  It was a beaty, about an 80 pound swordfish, but it fought like a 300 pounder.  Later that night we caught another swordfish which was a smaller one.  We released the smaller one and he swam away to fight another day.  We also caught a nice bull dolphin that same night, about a 12 pounder.  It was an exciting night for us.  The swordfish are snapping out there guys.  They didn’t remember to bring the camera out with them that night so I didn’t get any pictures of the fish whole, but we got the carcass out of the freezer before the taxidermy man picked it up and took a picture of it.  Its not as pretty as the fish was whole, but it shows how big the fish was.  Everybody got a bunch of swordfish meat to take home for dinner.  A great night.  If anyone is interested, we still have a few spots left on the Friday night swordfishing trip this week.

Sportfishing has been awesome this week.  Lots of bonitos and kingfish being caught.  A few sharks have been landed also in the past week or so.  The kingfish and bonito action has been the ticket for us though.  It was a great week of action and everyone we took fishing this week caught lots of fish.  This week looks like its going to be good, so take off a day of work and go fishing!

Thanks for reading my report guys, hope you all have a great week and I hope to see you out fishing with us.

-Capt. Scott

This Friday we have maxed out reservations for our Friday Night Swordfishing trip out of Ft. Lauderdale.  Because it is such a popular trip, we are going to run a swordfishing trip on Thursday night (8/2/07)this week too.  It will be the same deal as the Friday night trip, $100 per person and $15 if you need heavy tackle.  You can read about it on our Swordfishing page or check out pictures from our trips on our swordfishing photos page.  Anyway, this is a great moon phase for swordfishing, and Thursday night should be a good trip if anyone wants to go fishing with us that night.  Give us a  call to reserve a spot for that night.  Good Fishing to everybody…

We went out Friday night looking for the big swordfish.  We couldn’t find a swordfish out there that night to save our lives.  In fact, there were a lot of fishing boats out there on Friday and not a one of them caught a swordfish that  night.  It was just a slow night, the swordfish were taking a night off I guess.  Anyway, we didn’t get a swordfish, but we caught a huge wahoo.  It was the first bait we set out, a rigged squid.  Thats amazing because squid is hardly the best bait for a wahoo.  Wahoo are the fastest fish in the ocean and usually prefer a fast moving bait.  A dead squid drifting is not the bait of choice.  Well he ate it, and screamed a huge run off, smoking the reel.  We were using monofilament leader.  It was a miracle the wahoo’s razor sharp teeth didn’t cut through it, but we got lucky.  The fish ended up being about a 60 pounder, huge for a wahoo out of Ft. Lauderdale.  Wahoo are irridescent in color when they come up to the boat and are really beautiful fish.  Anyway, this guy caught him and it was a beauty.  Unfortunately, this was the only fish of the trip that night.  We were after swordfish, but if the swordfish aren’t going to bite, I’m glad this fish did.

 Our deep sea sport fishing boats have been gettting good action too, during the day.  This was a catch from yesterday, lots of action on the reef.  We caught a whole mess of bonitos and kingfish.  A couple of those kingfish are pretty nice size.  Everyone got to catch a couple fish though, and we had action the entire trip.  The fishing rods were bending every time we put a bait down.  It was hard to actually get a full spread of lures out there.  Chuck, the mate on the boat earned his money on this trip.  We also caught some medium sized barracuda that we released.  Everyone got some fresh kingfish for dinner tonight. 

Fish are still biting so catch them while you can.  This is the hot time of year in Fort Lauderdale for action.  Soon it will be fall and the bonitos and kingfish will be gone.  We’ll be spending our days fishing for those elusive sailfish and tuna.  But for now, the action is hot so Lets Go Fishing!

Capt. Adam went out on a private charter the  night before last with Farley, one of the guys who fishes with us a lot.  Check out these swordfish they caught out there.  They are absolutely humongous.  The smaller of the two is a beauty.  The larger swordfish is insane.  Its good to know there are fish out there like this. 

The guys caught these fish out about 15 miles while fishing off Ft. Lauderdale.  Swordfishing has been really productive these past few weeks out of Lauderdale.  Almost every trip we go on, we bring back one or two, sometimes more.  Guys, you can be proud of that one, it is one awesome fish and a great trip.  Pretty work Farley and Adam.

Our Swordfishing trip last night was a blast.  I heard from most of the charter boats that it was a slow night, but we did great.  The weather was nice, the fish were biting and we had a lot of first timers out there last night.

We basically made just 1 really long drift.  We just kept getting bites throughout the night.  We ran out there, to our normal fishing grounds in the middle of the Gulfstream current.  We set out the lines baited with rigged squids and live bait blue runners.  As soon as it got dark, we hooked up on our first fish.  We pulled the hook on him pretty quick.  About 10 minutes after that, we get a double header on.  Both  seemed like nice fish, although we never got to see them.  About 10 minutes into the fight, we pulled the hooks on both fish.  We were disappointed to loose them, but only a 1/2 hour into the trip and we already hooked into 3 fish, we were getting excited and we knew we were in the right spot. 

A little while later, once we reset the lines out there, we hooked into our 4th fish.  We fought him for about 40 minutes and it was a good fight.  We gaffed him and got him into the boat.  It measured out to be a 56″ forklength, about a 80 pounder.  Willie Coleman was the angler on that fish and he did a great job fighting him.  This was his second swordfish he’s caught with us I believe. 

We were catching fish, no sense in moving, so we set the lines out again.  About an hour later we hooked into a huge swordfish.  It came up jumping right away, tailwalking and putting on an awesome jumping show for us.  It was jumping about 20-30 yards off our stern and everybody got to see it.  It looked to be about a 100-150 pounder.  The fish ended up shaking the hooks on us, but we got 5 really good jumps out of it.

 Around an hour later we got our sixth fish of the night on.  We ended up catching that one as well, which measured out to be 54″ forklength, probably a 60-70 pounder.  Jim Reckert was the angler that caught that fish.  By then it was time to come home, but it was an exciting night.  Lots of bites and almost everybody got to do battle with a swordfish, even if just for a few minutes.   Thanks to everyone that came and I hope to see you back out there with us again soon.  

Anyone interested in going out with us next Friday, make reservations soon.  Within the next few weeks we are gonna change how the swordfishing trips are run.  We’re going to  raise the price a small amount, but limit it to 12 fishermen, instead of 15.  This will work out better I think and if we have to, we might start running 2 swordfish trips a week.  They are biting pretty darn good out there and the weather has just been absolutely gorgeous.