Tiger Shark Makes Day
Capt. Steve Souther
October 7, 2017
Fort Lauderdale - Saltwater Fishing Report
We have had an interesting week here with a Tiger Shark making one customer very happy. But I'll get to that in a moment.
Our week begins with calm seas, light west winds and some great fishing. Trolling on the reef produced good catches in Kingfish, Skipjack Tuna and lots of small Barracuda with a few big ones mixed in. Because of the west wind, weed and other debris that hold Dolphin and Wahoo were further off shore and hard to reach on the shorter trips.
Bottom fishing on the deeper wrecks has also been very good. Black Grouper are moving through our area. We've managed at least one per trip and 3 on out last all day. We've also lost a few back into the wreck. Medium sized Amberjack are also somewhat prevalent with this kind of fishing.
But even a day with a great catch isn't always good enough. Not if your heart is set on catching a shark and that's what Jordan wanted. So with just an hour or so to go, we put out the big baits. And as time grew near for us to go in and still no bite? They extended their trip another 2 hours.
We had been picking at small bottom stuff while fishing for the big one. Tilefish, Vermillion snapper and Tinker mackerel were biting. Our bottom bait had been decimated by the small fish so we freshened the bait and waited some more.
And then it happened. The bottom rod bent over sharply. And that was all, it was back to resting peacefully. Really??? Again it bent down hard and then… nothing. Oh come on!
The third time was the charm, we were connected to something and we would find out in about 40 minutes with a lot of straining that a Tiger shark had taken our bait. He measured at 1" shy of 8', was tagged, photographed and released. Check out that mouth.
Our weather has cleared and we'll be back out fishing. Won't you join us?
Captain Steve
Target Species:
Sailfish, Shark, Dolphin, Tuna, Swordfish, Kingfish, Barracuda and more...
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