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Fishing Report for Ft. Lauderdale & Port Everglades
Capt. Cary Hanna
February 7, 2003
Fort Lauderdale - Saltwater Fishing Report
Slow but Steady
Todays' bite was incredible! Seas were 2-4 feet and winds came from the south at 7-10 knots. We set up north of the Port and didn't find much of any current. But that didn't matter today. Our first bite came screaming from the down line and Peter Carby reeled in a nice Kingfish next to 20 pounds. Then another kingfish came in on the flat line at 8 pounds. Then came the serious hit. The flat line hooked up to a Goggle Eye bent over and nearly 400 yards came off the spool. We took in the kite, reeled in the rest of the as quick as we could and winded up chasing him down just so we could put some line back on the reel. This TLD 15 holds about 450 yards of 20 pound test. I never thought I would have to chase anything down on this set-up. We didn,t know what we had for over 20 minutes, then It came up and jumped about 150 yards or so from the boat, a huge Sailfish. We finally got him to the boat and he was still lit up, thrashing away. We grabbed him by the bill and took a few good pictures, then released back to the water with plenty of fight left. He measured over 7 feet overall. We caught another schoolie King after that and then headed into deeper water to get away from the Kings. Our drift was still slow. An hour had almost past and we finally got stuck at 230 feet. Another Sailfish. This one was much smaller. Took more pictures, put him into the drink. It's not over yet! At 195 feet the flat line gets hit hard. Almost ran like a Sail except he kicked his head around a bit and stayed under deep. We played the guessing game for more than 25 minutets as Darius Barron fought this fish pound for pound gaining only a couple of cranks each time. Finally we got a deep visual and then things became a lot clearer. An awsome Wahoo appeared and yes we stuck the gaff to him. He weighed in at 34 pounds. I get to see these fish only a couple times a year, they get these tiger stripes and a dorsal fin that stands up from head to tail. We had the camera today, so all these fish will be up on the website in a few days.
Till next Tide,
Captain cary Hanna
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