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Fishing Report for Ft. Lauderdale & Port Everglades
Capt. Cary Hanna
December 20, 2004
Fort Lauderdale - Saltwater Fishing Report
The Swordfish bite is on!
We finally had our shot to visit the Swordfishing grounds last night since these cold fronts have been slowing us down a bit from getting out there. As I write this report there is another front coming through from the NorthWest which in my opinion is the worst wind to be out there with.
Last night, Saturday we weaved our way through all the boat parade boats and ran offshore in flat calm seas. Our first drift produced 1 fish that picked up the bait and took some good line off the reel. As I tried to set the hook for what seemed to be forever, to my surprise we got tight. After about 10 minutes we pulled the hook.
We reset our drift running back on some shallower grounds and it starts to rain. On our radar we were able to see that there were a few bands of rain clouds coming and would pass over us within 20 minutes. My client Ron was asking me if I ever had a bite in the rain and I said sometimes before and after but not during as far as I could remember. As soon as that was said there was an aggressive hit on the 250 line. It was like a Wahoo bite, so fast and then the line stopped coming off the reel. I jumped on the reel and started cranking, and like our other fish I was reeling forever, I figured we lost him altogether but I kept on cranking the reel without missing a beat. All of a sudden the rod doubles over and we were tight on a nice fish, unbelievable. Ron took over and the battle began. For almost an hour straight he fought the fish. At one point we had the swivel almost at the rod tip and the fish knew he was in danger and sounded for about 200 feet. As the battle neared it's end the fish circled for about 20 minutes close to the boat but out of gaff range. My guess was fish at least 150 pounds. I caught a glimpse of the fish as he surfaced away from the boat and he was a bit smaller then expected but still a keeper. We finally boated the fish and saw the hook was deeply imbedded in the corner of his jaw. Whenever we catch a fish in the jaw like that they fight their hardest.
It is always a good night when you get to bring back a nice fish to the docks.
Till Next Tide,
Captain Cary Hanna
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