 Fishing in Ft. Lauderdale has been producing more and more Sharks for our clients who are looking to pull on a big fish that likes to pull right back. We are doing Ok with the Sailfish, Tunas, and Kings ( they are running small, but are biting) and this is all good news, but there is something about Sharks that generates a lot of interest for a lot of our fishermen. And the sharks are here also. A good flow of northerly current has the sailfish and the Sharks spending a lot of time in shallower water than we typically see them. Although we did catch and release two Hammerheads in 350 feet we have caught others in the vicinity of 200 feet and that depth seems to be very comfortable for them right now. No encounters with the truly big ones we see around March and April. A big fish right now would be a 200 pounder with most being between 100 to 150 pounds. These are still good fish capable of making anglers sweat and hurt a bit to earn their prize. Congratulations to Chris, Jack and Bobby on their fish. The biggest fish belonged to young Mr. Meena who released a 200 pounder in that 200 foot area that took a three pound Tuna fished as a surface bait. His brother also had an opportunity in the same depth on a Bonito bait but that Shark twisted against the drag and broke the 350 # leader wire three feet above the hook. Not all luck is necessarily good and fishing fortunes are sometimes painful as we all know, and although we re-rigged and re-baited with Tuna as bait that proved to be our last chance at a Shark or for that matter anything big for our young Canadian anglers as we toughed it out with a big fish as our target for the remainder of the charter. Hopefully they have some great Salmon days on their Pacific coast and we will catch the boys a big fish on their next trip to do a little Atlantic fishing in Ft. Lauderdale. |
