Fort Lauderdale Fishing on Happy Day Today with Capt. Zsak
Capt. David Zsak
February 19, 2012
Fort Lauderdale - Saltwater Fishing Report
Overcast day, 60% chance of rain - looking like the typical northeast weather – however, if you don't like the weather in Fort Lauderdale, just wait 5 minutes and the weather changes. Gary Fields from Erie, Pennsylvania, with his daughter Cindy that lives in Pinecrest, Florida chartered the Happy Day Today with the Topshotfishing team to do some deep sea salt water fishing.
One of Gary's bucket list items was to catch a Sailfish, so that was our goal for the day. Before we cleared the jetties we purchased a dozen Goggle Eyes from T & T Baitfish and headed to our fishing drop off which is 1.8 miles from shore. With two plainers down, four surface baits, we trolled towards one of our 34 artificial wrecks that sit off of Fort Lauderdale. With a couple of bites and no fish in the fish box yet, I headed towards one of our anchored freighters sitting in 185 ft. of water a little bit north of the sea buoy. There was a break in the weather, the rain subsided, sun was out and we put up two kites with two Goggle Eyes from each kite, one free swimming from the rigger and one down deep, we awaited Gary's Sailfish to appear. With time running out, a half hour left, I pulled the lines in and made a move to a different artificial wreck. Wrecks are good habitats for all types of bait fish, and in return attract the predators such as Sailfish, King Fish, Wahoos, Sharks, Tunas, etc. We put out the same fishing set up as before, however, this time the Sailfish was feeding on this particular wreck – left short – bill out of the water, chasing the live Goggle Eye, a second later, he ate the bait and off he went. The Sailfish jumped out of the water, screaming line off, tail walking – just to fulfill a man's dream!!!!! Thirty minutes later, he was brought to the boat, and pictures were taken with Gary smiling from ear to ear. I felt extremely satisfied knowing that I helped Gary complete one of his bucket list items!!
This ends another successful and adventurous deep sea fishing charter on the Happy Day Today with the Topshotfishing team and Captain Zsak - 954-439-8106 – www.topshotfishing.com
Target Species:
sailfish
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