The Fort Lauderdale reefs and wrecks are holding some nice fish this week. First off, the wrecks are working great. In years past, Fort Lauderdale was involved in the Artificial Reef Program and sank dozens of large, retired vessels to make good habitat for fish. Shallow spots were great for divers, creating a fun location to dive and view fish. Deeper wrecks in the 200-300ft range, made good spots for fishermen to target deep dwelling bottom fish. We’ve perfected our technique for fishing shipwrecks. Using live baits, we can target a specific structure (like a big sunken shipwreck) to go after big game fish. We drop a single live bait to the bottom and allow the current to carry our boat and bait over, along and past the sunken structure. This is a fast, efficient way to go after amberjacks, almaco jacks, several species of large groupers and cobia. We catch other species at times too such as barracuda, sharks and snapper. Wreck fishing is a great technique this time of year to catch some of the biggest and hardest fighting fish available in our waters.
