Great Action on All Our Different Fishing Trips this Week

The fishing in Fort Lauderdale has been excellent this week. Lots of kingfish and bonitos are still biting on the reefs. Action on the wrecks has been consistent with a good amount of snappers and sometimes a grouper. Offshore action has been spotty. There are some dolphin out but you have to find them which require a lot of trolling miles. There’s been much better and more consistent action trolling the reefs and edge of the Gulfstream. Sailfish starting biting early last week and wow!!! what a week of sailfishing. This is just the beginning of sailfish season and it looks like this year will be a tremendous year for them. We catch different varieties of fish on our different trips, so this is a breakdown of what we are catching on the various deep sea fishing trips that we run:
Drift Fishing Trips 8:30am & 1:30pm
Our drift fishing trips are doing well catching kingfish, bonitos and snappers. Bonitos seem to be hanging in longer this year than in years past. They are usually long gone by now, but there are still big numbers of bonitos on the reefs. Kingfish are mixed in with them. We’re catching the kingfish by either flat line fishing a ballyhoo/sardine or by jigging a whip jig off the bow of the boat. These techniques are also the best way to catch bonito and blackfin tuna. Snappers fishing is also going good. We’re getting some really big mutton snappers here and there on the afternoon trips. Decent numbers of yellowtail snappers are biting as well as the full array of grunts, porgies, triggers, jacks and other good eating bottom fish.