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Wahoo Fishing is Off-The-Scale in Ft Lauderdale This Month

Capt. Paul Roydhouse
April 24, 2018
Fort Lauderdale - Saltwater Fishing Report

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The wahoo fishing in Fort Lauderdale is going really good. This is the best wahoo fishing I have seen off the coast of Fort Lauderdale in quite a few years. We're catching the hell out of them trolling the high speed lures up and down the coastline in anywhere from 90-300ft of water. Wahoo like to hunt right along the reef line. They feed on small tunas, ballyhoo, bonitos, blue runners and just about anything else that swims their way. For wahoo, I like to fish a double hooked ballyhoo with a streamline lure in front of it. We use a long shock cord and a heavy trolling lead to keep the bait down low in the water where the wahoo lie. Wahoo are the fastest fish in the ocean, so you can pull your lures up to 20 knots and get them. This burns a lot of fuel, but it also allows you to cover a lot of territory out there. The more territory you cover, the better your chances are of pulling your baits past a hungry wahoo.

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Along with wahoo, lots and lots of tunas are biting too. The tunas are schooling fish and they show up on the reefs in huge schools of fish, often seen busting baits right on the surface of the water. You can see the tunas when they are busting baits nearly a mile away. The surface of the water erupts with whitewater as the tunas crash the surface eating the baits they are chasing. On a calm day, it looks like a patch of whitewater on a sea of blue. There are often flocks of birds marking the location from the air as well. These tunas are anywhere from 2-15 pounds and there are no size limits on tunas, so they are all keepers.

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Kingfish, barracuda and the elusive sailfish may be mixed into our catches this time of year. They bite the same baits that you fish for the wahoos and tunas with, so you never know when one of them are going to jump on the line too. It's a mixed bag of fish when trolling the Fort Lauderdale reefs. You never know what you're going to catch. While most days are good action, we do have plenty of slow fishing days too. When the trolling is slow, we usually like to mix up the fishing and go hit some shipwrecks by dropping down some deep baits. There are plenty of deep water fish biting around these wrecks in the lower water columns. Good luck to everyone fishing this week. I'll sea ya on the water.

Capt. Andy Roydhouse
www.FishHeadquarters.com
754-214-7863

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Come fishing with us on one of our 3 daily trips aboard the 85ft Catch My Drift for only $40 per person. Drift fish the reefs for kingfish, tuna, snapper and grouper. Also, Sportfishing charters with Capt Paul Roydhouse catch some of the biggest fish in the ocean. Capt Paul is a Ft Lauderdale native fisherman, with over 43 years of local, full-time fishing experience. We also run All Day Fishing trips for only $100 per person aboard the Mary B III. Sportfishing/drift fishing combo trip.

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