Shark Fishing Fort Lauderdale
Capt. Mike Johnson
March 6, 2012
Fort Lauderdale - Saltwater Fishing Report
Thank The Fish Gods March is Here!
Tuesday March 6th, 2012
February fishing, while it had some good days, overall was very sloooooow! I know March Fishing Fort Lauderdale is going to be great! it always is. On March 1st our morning trip brought Jeff and Trevor from Michigan and another Jeff from the Poconos. Right off the bat trolling Jeff laid into a respectable 25# wahoo and I was already praising the new month. I think i got a little excited too quick because I couldnt buy another bite after that. We switched up to some kite fishing but had no luck. So we caught some tilefish while we kite fished waiting for the big bite.
In the afternoon it was a whole new ball game. We had Helen from England, Mike from New york, Todd from chicago, Chris from Milwuakee and Carlos from Los Angeles. We decided to go big or go home. This was a corporate convention trip and my team wanted a "Big Win". We popped the kites and put out the big shark baits. We waited and we waited and we waited and with over half the trip gone I thought we werent going to pull this off and then it Happened, the Fish Gods answered our prayers with an incredible bite on the bottom rod, a penn international 80 loaded with 100# line for subduing Sea Monsters. We Got Big Chris in the chair and he went to war. First a huge blistering first run, then a dive strasight back to bottom, then offshore toward the surface and then back down. Chris was about 30 minutes into his battle royale when chaos struck, a Big Hammerhead ate the other shark bait we had out of the kite. Now we had two sea monsters on!!! Now everyone had been helping Chris hold the rod on the first fish so they were pretty worn out already as they began to take turns fighting the hammerhead while Chris continued his own battle. Both sharks were fighting deep right behind the boat and i was so worried the lines would cross and cut each other off, so i clipped a small buoy to the line with the hammerhead on it and lightened the drag allowing the fish to pull away from the boat and angle toward the surface. We finally got chris,s Fish to the boat. Holy @#$% it was a 400# plus Thresher shark, now protected we pulled it in for a quick measurement a whopping 125 inches. After a bunch of high fives we went after the hammerhead. Thank goodness Helen was on board cause she put a whoopin on that fish so bad that the rest of the guys on the boat should be embarrassed. You go girl!
March 2 Rob, Andy,Ken and Ashlee didnt catch any sea monsters but they did end up with four mahi mahi pushing 25#'s. Nothing wrong with that, Great Day!Ray and Jim followed suit on the 3rd with a nice wahoo and a handful of blackfin tunas. As did Ryan on the 4th with 1 bonita and 5 tunas. The 6th was a little slow today as we missed a couple of sailfish bites. Gotta give the fish a little credit their fighting for their lives. We did manage a real nice mahi mahi.
Capt. Mike
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Target Species:
Sharks
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