Father's Day Fishing Trip
Capt. Steve Souther
June 18, 2018
Fort Lauderdale - Saltwater Fishing Report
You know, Dad likes to fish anytime, not just on Father's Day. However, the Father's Day fishing trip always has us busy and this year is no exception.
We had a great family on board and when asked what they would like to catch? Just put us on some fish was the answer… My favorite answer to this question. But today we struggled at first with this somewhat easy task.
The radio for the fleet was reporting plenty of Kings and Bonito in the area. And yet, it had been over an hour of fishing and we still had nothing in our box. We've had the hits but missed every fish. It seemed an eternity before we finally stayed connected and just catching one King gave me hope our drought was over.
Now some folks like Kingfish, others aren't too fond of them. Our group could take or leave them so after boating 6 or so, we opted for some off shore Dolphin fishing.
In order to catch Dolphin, you must find something to fish to. Plenty of seaweed has been around and with it being Father's day, plenty of boats were out too. We got to the pretty blue water and began our search. Scattered grass and some big patches of weed were in our area. Little Bar Jacks that hide beneath the weed were also present. And finally, a Mahi! Easily too small to keep as was the second.
But we continued and finally began catching some we could keep. No real big ones but the action was consistent as 1 after another made it into our box. They weren't together, just coming one at a time. And being about 7 miles from shore, our time had come to go home.
In the end, we had 6 Kings, 8 keeper Dolphin, we had released some 15 Jacks and probably almost as many small Mahis. But our group was quite pleased with the Father's day fishing trip.
Remember, dad will go fishing anytime! LOL
Captain Steve
Target Species:
Sailfish, Shark, Dolphin, Wahoo, Tuna, Swordfish, Marlin and more...
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