Fort Lauderdale Fishing

Sally’s Birthday Present to Ian aboard Hooked Up

admin — Sat, 26 May 2012 21:25:30 +0000

Today Sally chartered the boat for her husband Ian’s birthday and they brought along their daughter Megan and their good friends Kevin and his wife Ann all from down here in South Florida. Today once again the water looked very bad once again due to all the rain we had earlier in the week. And [...]

Catching a Smoker King aboard Hooked Up off Ft Lauderdale

admin — Fri, 25 May 2012 15:51:32 +0000

Today Kevin and his wife Emily were down in Sunny South Florida from Houston Texas visiting Kevin’s dad Jim and Jim’s good friend John both from Jupiter Florida. As it trends out Kevin and John both are avid anglers them selves with their own boats but today they were looking to see how we fish [...]

Sea Fishing Fort Lauderdale with the guys from Finland

admin — Thu, 24 May 2012 15:22:43 +0000

Today we fished with our friends from Finland Sven, Alexis, Matts, Eric and Roberto. Once again we started out trolling the reef and once again the deep lines were catching all the fish. We ended up with a box full of kingfish on the deep lines while our surface baits only produced 1 black fin [...]

The guys from Brazil catch a big HammerHead aboard Hooked Up in Ft Lauderdale

admin — Mon, 21 May 2012 14:58:52 +0000

Today we started out fishing with Sanizo, Saulo and Paulo from Brazil. We started out trolling the reef with 2-planner board running about 45 feet down and 3 baits skipping across the surface. Today it was all the deep lines with the planners catching 6 nice kingfish and the surface baits zero. Ok skunk was [...]

Catching Fish aboard Hooked Up even while fishing was slow

admin — Sun, 20 May 2012 18:24:44 +0000

Today we fished with Vicky,Damian and his brother Cosmas down visiting on vacation Good eating fish was what we were looking for. We started out trolling the reef trying to catch a few kingfish and or maybe even a Wahoo but trolling the reef was slow and all we managed to catch while trolling was [...]

Jake and Connor Catching Wahoo aboard Hooked Up

admin — Fri, 18 May 2012 23:06:29 +0000

WOW that’s all I think of about today’s fishing trip. No fishing was not the greatest but we did catch fish and it was all about the kids and they had a blast. We had dads John and Todd both of them are mariners that travel on ships and they have over a generation of [...]

Sea Fishing Fort Lauderdale aboard Hooked Up

admin — Sun, 13 May 2012 17:38:47 +0000

Today we went Sea Fishing Fort Lauderdale with Una and Oscar from Sweden out for a few hours of deep-sea fishing aboard the Hooked Up. We went right out to 160 feet of water and set out our kites with 4 live baits suspended from them. First fish was a big sailfish and Oscar jumped [...]

Mr. Lucky Sail fishing aboard Hooked Up

admin — Sat, 12 May 2012 17:28:04 +0000

Today we had Mr. Lucky Jim from Michigan out for a few hours of deep-sea fishing aboard the Hooked Up off the coast of Fort Lauderdale. Now let me start out by telling you a little bit about Mr. lucky. The first time Jim fished with me we went off shore to do some sword [...]

Mahia Mahia, Sailfish and Hammer Head Shark aboard Hooked Up

admin — Fri, 11 May 2012 16:37:38 +0000

Today we spend the day with Matt, Ryan; Where’s the Bucket Tom (I’ll get to the bucket Tom later), Billy, Josh and Eric all from Winter Heaven Florida. Good eating fish was what was on the menu so off shore we went. We trolled all the way out to 11 miles from the inlet. While [...]

Fishing with Brett, Juan and Carlos aboard Hooked Up off Ft Lauderdale

admin — Wed, 09 May 2012 16:01:49 +0000

Today we had Brett from South Africa and Juan and Carlos from Colombia. We went right to trolling with 2-planner boards running about 45 feet deep and 3 baits skipping across the surface. We ended up catching 3 black fin tunas, 1 mackerel and 2 kingfish. Than the weather got bad and we decided to [...]