We went out on the Friday night swordfishing trip last night and it was fun.  The weather wasn’t bad at all and we had a nice group of 12 fishermen.  Anyway, we went out to the 50 line(lat/long line that we like to fish on) .  It looked sweet.  There was a great little 1/2 a degree temperature change there and the drift couldn’t have been more perfect for us.  Capt. Adam had high hopes of us crushing them.  Well, we did get a couple nice fish on.  The swordfish we caught was a nice 80 pounder and we missed as well.  It wasn’t as red hot as we were expecting but any night you catch a swordfish is a good night so we weren’t complaining.  Dan, one of our regular swordfishermen that fishes with us regularly on the trip brought his daughter with him.  She ended up being the lucky angler who caught the fish and she did a great job of getting him in.  Pretty work to everyone that came last night and we hope to have you back with us again.  Thanks a bunch…

The Friday Night Swordfishing trip is BACK!!! and better than ever!  We had a couple weeks where we didn’t make it out due to foul weather but the weather is much nicer these days.  With seas about 2-4′ we can easily get out there to swordfish grounds when the smaller boats can’t make it.  That gives us the whole ocean to ourselves.  The swordfish bite wasn’t red hot this week, but we did manage to catch a nice one. 

We started the trip at 6PM, like we usually do and headed out 15 miles offshore to swordfish territory.  It was Capt. Adam and Kevin as crew for the trip.  The water was a bit choppy, but plenty fishable, especially on an 85′ fishing boat.  We put out our squids and blue runners on the first drift and not much happened for us.  We did catch a nice barracuda.  Not the desired species, but a nice cuda none the less. 

About 11PM, Capt. Adam decided to set up for the second drift.  We hooked into a nice shark.  After fighting the fish for a little while, he ended up biting through the leades and cut us off.  We never got to see the fish.  So on the 3rd drift, one of our regulars, Dan, fishing with his daughter and friend, put down a rigged mackrel on a wire leader so that if a shark did bite us, we would catch it.  The bait was supposed to be a 300′ bait for us, but when we got down about 150′ the swordfish ate.  They saw the light stick near the bait shooting up to the top of the water.  Bammo, Hooked UP!!  We fought the fish for about an hour before we got him to the boat.  A beautiful fish at about 62″ forklength, an estimated 120 pounder. 

That was the only swordfish we caught that night, but after sitting in on the swordfish trip the last couple weeks it was a great trip.  Everybody that wanted fish for dinner got to take a bunch home that night.  This Friday should be a good trip.  The water is going to be a bit choppy but it should be calmer than it was last week.  Give us a call if you want to go out on Friday’s trip. 

Check this out.  Now, there are a few trips a year that really astound me, and this trip last night absolutely did for me.  Our luck on our swordfish trips lately has been kinda down these past few weeks.  The past few Friday nights hasn’t been that good for us.  Last week we fished the Sword Lords Tournament and we hooked into3 fish, but unfortunately pulled the hooks on all 3 fish.  Needless to say, our luck has been down for about 3 weeks now.  But we were due.  We were due for a good trip and last night was it!  We slammed them.  Caught 5 swordfish on our trip last night.

The first fish we caught was small, so we brought him close to the boat, and cut the line.  He was small and definetly not a legal fish so we released him.  The drift was funny last night and it was difficult to put our lines out there.  As we were resetting the lines from the first fish we caught, we got another bite.  We caught that fish, set the lines out again and Bam!  Immediately got another bite.  The fish were biting last night.  I don’t think we actually ever managed to get all the lines back out again during the entire night, the fish were biting so good. 

We ended up catching 5 swordfish last night guys.  So far, in the year and a half we’ve been running the Friday Night Swordfishing trip, this has been our best night on numbers of fish.  Fort Lauderdale swordfishing is going off and we weren’t the only boat to catch them either.  I heard a few other boats catching them too, so swordfishing is hot right now.  Of the keeper sized swordfish we caught, the smallest was about a 50 pounder and the biggest was a 64″ forklength fish, estimated at 140 pounds.  Awesome night for us guys.  We’re headed out again next Friday so we’ll see you all out there.  Good luck…

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.