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Another
Great Day
02/28/2009
My
brother inlaw is in from Arkansas for the weekend and wanted
to fish badly. Kevin on the Skirt Chaser suggested we take
the family and friends on his boat for the day (36' Jersey"For
Sale") So three fishing teams become one, Makin' Time,
Skirt Chaser and O-Sea-D. Our sights were set for day-timing.
We run to our usual area and deploy our rig, same setup as
mine except Kevin has a 130 Penn Int'l, mine is an 80. We
hit bottom and the anticipation begins.... No more than 30
seconds go by and by Bro in law says "Ohh look at that
pretty fish.." Steve and I look back and say HOLY *#^%!
45Lb.+ Dolphin swimming behind the boat. We throw in a few
liveys and WHAM, annihilates a sardine... 4 more appear and
utter chaos in the pit erupts. We end up hooking a quad of
30lb to 45lb fish... Meanwhile the sword rod is on the bottom
and right now is an afterthought... Due to this we can't spin
the boat or chase anything!!!! So, that being said I'm doing
360s around the riggers and clutter galore on the boat and
end up back in the pit with the 3 other fish tight only to
see Steve doubled over with the sword rod and peeling drag....
That's right we now have 5 fish on including a Sword. Lines
get crossed on a pair of Dolphin and end up breaking the Big
Boy off 45LB+.... Trying to get these fish to cooperate during
our NOW sword battle was like taking my three kids to dairy
queen and then going to church and trying to keep the quiet...
"NOT!!" LOL.... We end up getting my Bull and the
two Cows in the boat just after unclipping the weight on the
Sword. I'm now scrambling to get the harpoon rigged and ready
cuz DA Fish is comin' in HOT!!! Finally rigged and armed without
a poly ball and launch is called... Damn 2 inches above the
dorsal SSSSSSStrike ONE.... Fish sounds momentarily and second
shot is approaching. I am not going to be denied this time.
Threw the poon and stuck solid.. Fish is half out of the water
on the surface thrashing about.. I'm not giving an inch. Kevin
comes in for the assist and bring her to two straight steel
shots and the fish is Bagged baby... It is now 9:30 in the
morning and we have a 36lb. Bull, 28Lb. Cow, 26Lb. Cow and
200LB. Sword in the boat... NOICE... Capt makes the call to
go in and Steve and I mutiny and suggest one more drop. Well,
didn't even hit bottom and I'm tight, fight the fish for a
good 10 minutes and this fish is definitely beefier but ended
up pulling her off...... Now we head in and make one Tile
drop "gotta go for the slam" end up getting one
to eat after 10min of drifting and 2500 feet of line later...
On the small side but still very tasty "10Lber"
Call it a day and it's only noon.... I'll post another report
after next weekend, have a 3 day charter... Tight Lines everyone.....
DAYTIME SWORDFISH CHARTER
02/09/2008
with
the boyzzzzzzzz................. Early start @ LHP marina
for fuel by 7am. The long trek began due Southeast on an
absolutely gorgeous South Florida "winter" day!
Alright guys we are there, lets send em' down, hang the
weight and "try" to begin the descent....&^%^%&%
just lost the $%^$^&& weight!!!&^%^&%**^%....
Lose one rig one... That's not supposed to apply to the
weight. Anyways, get er down and wait and drop and wait
and drop, what seems to be an eternity was really only about
10 minutes and Todd and Jim says fish.... Hmmm, I didn't
see a bounce. However, a minute goes by and the rod slowly
doubles over and drag suddenly rips off the reel and slows,
couple cranks and there she goes again, zzzzzzzzzzzzz, after
a few minutes of tug "o" war the infamous hook
pull... "SHARKED" Alright currents scrreaming
need to make a run to the south lets go 15minutes of cranking
can be awefully exhausting. 2nd drop yields a tap tap and
no hook up.. Strike two. I open my phone and see 2 voicemails,
boys we gotta run west for phone service, call the wife
makes sure everythings ok "she's 9 months pregnant
on our third child and due the 13th of Feb... I know, I'm
dumb for going out there and risking her going into labor."
Everythings fine??? I'm gonna kill whoever left me those
voicemails, run 6 miles back to the east and reset...Alright
same as last week, 2 drops two bites, simultaneous Jim and
I say third times the charm.... Indeed it was!!!! I know
this story is dragging so let me speed her up, Fish gets
hooked and again screaming on the bottom for a solid 5 minutes
without stopping her...... Damn Thresher again!!!!! Wait
a minute, she's coming up, I didn't feel pulled hooks, winding
for the next 6 to 7 minutes, "very exhausting trying
to play catch up" 1800ft. mark, 1200ft. mark, 600ft.
mark ooohhh there she is pulling a little kept gaining going
straight up. Meanwhile, I have Mario on the Waterproof heading
over to take a couple photos, let him know I need a little
room, don't know where this fish is, somewhere up top with
alottttaaaa line out, Mario takes a hard left "Thanks
Bro" Get the fishto about 250 straight up and down
and Finicky comes over to take a few shots, he hangs for
about 10 minutes and realizes the fish isn't budging so
he takes off and makes his set....I gain a hundred, fish
would take a hundred, this went on for almost two hours
when finally our opportunity is at hand. Todd's on the helm,
I'm on the reel, Kenny's on the dart, Jim's on the gaff
and Doug's on 2nd gaff. We're ready and she's a comin' in
hot! Darting around under and beyond the boat and Todd's
working the helm like a freaking magician, alright here's
our shot boyzzz. Fish is twenty feet down and I say Kenny
Throw it straight down lit up puple neon "PIG"
Well, Kenny decides to take a couple practice swings like
he's teeing off in golf. A throw and a miss by a couple
of feet, I said #*&% it's ok Kenny DO IT AGaIN!!!! THROW
IT!!!!! Strike two he, decides to ask for a mulligan Fish
shoots under the boat and Todd maneuvers and says un uh
not going there big girl.... Fish comes up and slaps the
hull with her tail. Jim stick her, tail shot no prob, Doug
gets a gaff in her and Kenny comes around like revenge of
the nerds javelin throw and finishes her off.... Fish in
the boat. Well, Todd and Jim third times the charm again!!!
Ran west called the wife, hun we got a donkey are you in
labor???? Nope, have fun.... Two more drops and not a bite,
called it a sword day and tried dropping for a few tiles...
NADA, to much current.
DAYTIME
SWORDFISHING
01/24/2008
I've
had a charter scheduled for weeks and we finally had the
weather window to accomodate. With a light Southeast wind
we set our sights due Southeast for a 25 mile trek with
our sights on a broadbill in broad daylight.... We arrive
at our location of a known productive area, first drop we
get tight after 15 minutes of waiting.. Fish is peeling
drag then decides to dart to the surface, come tight on
the fish again with 600ft of line still out and the hooks
pull... Bum deal. Leader is all tangled up in the mainline
and the squid is mawled. Second drop with a bigger bait
yields a bite before reaching bottom.. Fight the fish for
30 minutes and several jumps later..."Exhilirating"
says the customers and 180lb. fish is boated. 2 more drops
net 1 more fish that was released to fight another day....
As long as the seas cooperate we can definately put you
on the daytime swords....
HYDROGLOW
SWORDFISH TOURNAMENT
12/03/2007
Little
late with the report been Last boat to sign up again, thanks
Drew! Well, almost thanks.... Anyways, had 2 clients from
Iowa and my mate Kenny. We made the long run with squidies
and Gogs and set up on the 03 and the 49.3. Got the full spread
out and waited 15 minutes when the 300 balloon sang a tune.
Fortunately the fish was on the bentbutt so it never left
the rodholder After clearing a couple of lines the fish started
coming up when the long balloon sung that same tune.... Well,
here we go with a double with the Iowans. Straight butt 80
sent the other gentleman Tim with the harness.... This fish
seemed to be quite meatier. Few more grueling minutes for
Mike and the 52" Swordy was in the boat, 1st fish of
the tournament and 1 place out of the money... Knew she wasn't
a money fish anyway, although the fish on the end of the double
might be her!!! Long story short, after numerous rod switching
and hearts pounding the clients opted to try and get the fish
up.... After 2 hours I put Kenny on the rod to turn up the
heat.. Fish did not want any of that and didn't stick his
nose above the thermocline yet opted to descend at warp speed.
After taking 500 yards of line within 1 minute note"this
after battling straight up and down with a few good runs for
2 hours" I clipped the 80 with another 80, just about
when she was gonna go splash........ SLACK!!!! SH!T, REEL......REEL......
Nothing...... Please come back without a hook, puhlease........
Sure enough, it appears as if Mr. Mako has elluded wants again.....
Thankful there wasn't a hook.... That definately passed some
time of a relatively slow night. Reset around 9:30 and nada
the rest of the night.... Had both bites on ribbonfish, unfortunately
I only brought two! The positive of the night was that Mike
and Tim had the time of there lives....
SOUTH
FLORIDA SWORDFISHING
2007-08-23
12:45:32
Captain Matt White
Fort Lauderdale, Florida - Saltwater Fishing Report
swordgrounds
The
past two weeks have been on and off. Fished the Swordlords this
past weekend with mimimum results. Fishing was very slow "barometer
was low" We've had steady action besides that night with
fish ranging from 75lbs. to 160lbs. Pulled one off over 200lbs.
30 minutes into the fight... Bummer... Getting most of the bites
on squid 100ft. down on the far balloon right at dark! Let me
know if your in town and want to go swording. We'll get tight!
SALTWATER
SHOOTOUT REPORT
2007-05-14
11:06:14
Captain Matt White
Fort Lauderdale, Florida - Saltwater Fishing Report
Monument buoy north....
The
annual Pompano Beach saltwater series kicked off on a positive
note. 120 boats and a decision to run south was a crapshoot
against numerous top teams heading north for the big kings.
Fortunately, a decision to run south payed off for a third
place overall finish with a catch of 4 tunas, 2 kingfish and
one weigher dolphin to total 126.9lbs. of fish. We were unable
to live chum due to tournament rules although we did chunk
as much as possible and that definatley produced a consistent
bite throughout the day. Quite a few sailfish were in the
mix too releasing a total of four "big" fish. I
haven't seen sails that big in a long time and I'm talking
two were pushing the century mark!!! Most of the action started
right from the get go and tapered off until the early afternoon.
I f you can, get out there and get em' while the actions hot
these next couple of months....
Senorita
Shootout II in Ft. Lauderdale
2007-04-28 11:26:28
Captain Matt White
Fort Lauderdale, Florida - Saltwater Fishing Report
Fowey Light north to Haulover inlet
It was a very hot and steamy day for the 4 lady sluggers.
Looking for a few big Kings in the slick calm water was hard
to do. I had to be diversified under these current conditions
and pull out the downriggers and slow troll our targeted area.
Lines in were at 8am and we arrived at around 7:45. Deciding
to head against the current for approx 1 mile and throw chum
after chum and sardines mixed in. We turned north and kept
our chum line heading when lines in was called. However, fishing
deemed to be quite slow.... A 20lb. Jack Crevalle decided
to show up on our kite bait and fight like a tuna... Ugggghhhh....
We ran south to Haulover and put lines in where the water
looked a bit more fishy. First bait gets whacked by a toothy
critter. Alright Kings are here. We get tight and bring our
3 weighers in the boat within the next hour. Trying to find
bigger fish we head south to Fowey. Few more dinks were released
and headed offshore for dolphin. Skipjacks busting everywhere
6 miles off and send a gog way back with a stinger zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.......
Nicole comes tight and the infamous charge back to the boat
occurs.... Slack and hooks pull. Damn wahoo, bait sliced in
half and stinger kinked up. Happened right in the middle of
all the Tunas busting.... You know what he's feeding on.
Tried
for another hour and nothing came back in tho the ledge
for the afternoon bite to no avail. We did have a 50lb.
swordfish cruise off the bow of the boat. Chased him for
1/4 mile throwing gogs at him and all he did was sniffed,
circled and resurfaced for a bit of sun.... After the wife
keeps bellyaching about us fishing for her and the tournament
and not "swordfish" we reset and nada. Back at
the weigh ins we find out about the 4th place finish and
top family. We are currently leading the overall series
by a fraction so the final leg is going to be a battle........
South
Florida Dolphin are here!!!
2007-04-23
16:26:31
Captain Matt White
Fort Lauderdale, Florida - Saltwater Fishing Report
San Remo, Boca area
Had a really hot bite this past Saturday with a party from
New York. Fished off San Remo with an assortment of Gogs
and pilchards on kites and flatlines with a couple deeps.
Started a drift from 375ft. in to 80ft. Strong NE winds
kicked up pretty good in the afternoon. Caught 10 Dolphin
ranging from a 30lb. bull to a couple in the lower 20's
and one 15lber along with a few schoolies. Last drift produced
a monster of the sea that one the battle of will. Hooked
this fish in 300ft. of water on the deep gog. #6 wire with
a stinger for that lovely Hoo' Unfortunately, when this
fish hit we knew she was more than a Hoo'. Ended up almost
dumping my TLD20 b-4 we caught up to her and finessed for
quite a few hours with a few sizzling line spooling runs.
Joe fought this fish like he was possessed and his will
would not break.
I ended up bumping up the dragevery 15 to 20 minutes since
we weren't gaining a damn thing. She was headed Southeast
into the current cruising at about 3knots. I was maneuvering
every which way possible to try and lure this fish to the
boat and she would not be had. After 3-1/2 hours of a grueling
battle the #6 wire kinked an d the fish won this battle.
After investigating the leader I can only assume this had
to be a 150lb. plus Yellowfin. The mono above the wire was
smooth as butter so that leaves a sharky out of the equation.
Oh well, this is just another fish story that I can tell
with no evidence.
2007-04-17
09:42:42
Captain Matt White
Miami, Florida - Saltwater Fishing Report
Fowey Light
April 14th, 2007. Is a day not to be forgotten anytime soon.
The ladies had a phenomenal day catching and releasing 7 of
12 sailfish numerous Dolphin "Mahi" and a few snake
Kings with quite a few cutoffs. The weee hours of the morning
were proven to be the hot bite!!! Set-up on a quadruple header
sailfish and double dolphin right off the get go. You can
imagine a 12 rod spread with four lady anglers and 6 hooked
fish....... Wow.......... Needless to say two sailfish and
1 dolphin were caught from that catastrophe. Fortunately it
was a weigher and the one that was lost was 20lbs+.
Next drift produced a bite right off the bat and fought for
30minutes on a 20lb. conventional. My personal lady angler
"wife" fought this fish and assumed it was a shark....
We see color and lots of it, 23Lb. Bull hooked right in the
tail. Never even jumped! Ended up catching one more weigher
dolpphin that was good enough to place us in 2nd. Throughout
the rest of the day it was single after single with sailfish.
Where were they for the Miami Billfish??? Note* I am using
all wire also....figures..... Way to go O-Sea-D crew. Next
report will be Senorita Shootout Ft. Lauderdale.
2007-03-14
11:09:26
Captain Matt White
Fort Lauderdale, Florida - Saltwater Fishing Report
Deerfield Beach
Dolphin
up to 25lbs were caught late last week 3/09 with a few small
Kingfish mixed in. This past weekend was a bit slow with a
few kings and 2 sailfish releases Saturday and one release
on Sunday.
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