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Captain Ron Mallet -- Ft. Lauderdale, Boca Raton, Miami
Action Sportfishing Tel: (954) 423-8700 e-mail: captron@actionsportfishing.com;

September 30, 2009

It has been a long month and summer. Tomorrow is October and it looks like the weather will give us hope that summer is leaving. It has been a while since my last report, a few reasons for that. I travel and spend time with family every summer and I was gone most of September. Reason being it is one of the slower times of year here for action and business. I did get a few days in this week and it produced Bonita, Kingish and we did have a Sailfish on for a little while. The Jacks were hungry inshore too. The bait is heading our way. I am going out in the morning and feel change in the air. October is the month when good things start to happen again, as long as the weather cooperates.

Sea Ya,

Captain Ron Mallet

www.actionsportfishing.com

FishHeadquarters - Ft. Lauderdale
(954) 527-3460 (754)214-7863
e-mail Captandy@fishheadqurters.com

April 17, 2009

Offshore Fishing in Fort Lauderdale-

The fishing off Fort Lauderdale this month has been phenomenal. It’s April and we’re in the middle of the Spring fishing season and in South Florida that means there are some big game fish offshore. 7-9 miles offshore, there has been a beautiful weed line formation, littered with flying fish and other important baitfish. A few hours spent trolling offshore can be rewarding though, when it all comes together. The months of April, May and June bring with them the big game fish… Bull Dolphin, Tunas, Wahoo, Sharks, Sailfish and even Marlin. This is the season when you can go out there and catch that once in a lifetime fish. The Big Game has been catching some monster sized bull dolphins out there, scatter with some schoolie dolphin, blackfin tuna and the less common wahoo. Offshore fishing has been a pretty sure bet for us lately.

In on the reef, there is some nice action as well. The local wrecks are holding heavy this season. Many of the deep wrecks off the coast of Fort Lauderdale are laden with amberjack, grouper, snapper and sporadic cobia. Amberjacks are especially prevalent this season and can commonly reach 50 pounds or more. With so much activity going on the big game sharks are here for their piece of the pie as well. Hammerheads, threshers, makos, bulls and tigers are some of the sharks we will be catching in the weeks to come. There are some really big fish swimming off our coast. Let’s get out there and catch some of them. Sea ya on the water…

Captain Andy
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Capt. Tris Colket
Last Mango Sport Fishing Charters Tel: (772) 559-0594 e-mail: fvmango@juno.com

September 3, 2009

Every Summer Needs a Vacation

On August 8^th Robert Conley, Marion Jones, Devin Silas and I took a break from our summer routines in Ft. Pierce to join up with an interesting group of fisher people headed for the USVI Atlantic Blue Marlin or “Boy Scout” Tournament in St Thomas, VI. While Devin went there to work as a mate on one of the boats, the rest of us were signed up as ‘observers’ to work with the tournament director and world renowned founder of “The Boy Scout”, Jimmy Loveland.
Our 2hr flight out of Ft Lauderdale included approx. 22 of the 36 overall ‘observer contingent’ to St Thomas, where we were treated to a delightful tour of the island and were then dropped off at a rather grand hotel overlooking St. John’s and other tropical vistas. Unlike the Bahamas, the Virgin Islands have some serious topography. Formed in part by volcanic eruptions, the islands look more like Hawaii than the flatlands of my old stomping grounds in the Abacos.
Four days of tournament fishing on 36 of the world’s finest fishing machines was a serious matter for an observer. With prize money in the hundreds of thousands of dollars, decisions made by observers (who fished on a different boat each day!), had to be accurate and concise. Woe be unto the man or woman who made a bad call, as this was very serious business to anglers vying for the prestige and prize money of a win at the ‘Boy Scout’!
All things considered, it was not only a privilege but the chance of a lifetime to be a part of this fascinating event. To top things off on our trip to the USVI’s, the four of us met up with Ft Pierce native Capt Mike Brady, and marlin fished on our ‘lay day’ (one day set aside in the tournament in case of a bad weather day). Marion was by far the star angler catching a 400 lb plus marlin on a ‘pitch bait’ fifteen feet from the transom of the “Cowpoke”! Capt Mike, aka ‘Brady’, also of Ft Pierce, 1^st mate Dewey and 2^nd mate Devin were a finely honed team that day and it was more than apparent that we were under the tutelage of a sage and practiced skipper in the world of marlin fishing. Backing down with unfettered alacrity on all three of our marlin releases that day, Brady added the ultimate thrill to an already fantastic trip.
And….we arrived home to excellent fishing on the Treasure Coast. Well no, there were no marlin, but extraordinary catches of both sailfish and wahoo in 80’ to 200’ have been the order of the day in mid August. Superlative cobia catches were reported between St Lucie and Ft Pierce last week and a steady bite of both AJ’s & kings promise great Treasure Coast fishing into Sept. With tropical storms on the horizon, it looks like the ‘mill pond’ we fished in all summer is a thing of the past, but it won’t be long before the mahi bite picks up and trolling dead bait will be the order of the day!

Tight Lines,
Capt Tris

Last Mango Sportfishing Charters
www.lastmango-charters.com
Ft Pierce City Marina
772-559-0594

Capt. David Ide
Lady Pamela II Sportfishing Tel: (954) 761-8045
e-mail: ladypamela@bellsouth.net

January 26, 2010

Ft Lauderdale Fishing

2010 definitely surprised South Florida with freezing temperatures and a killer bite offshore. Only the brave, die hards were on the water in search of the Atlantic Sailfish and it was well worth it with all the layers. During our unwelcomed, drawn out cold snap, the Sailfish bite was solid; huge packs of spindle beaks came through with double digit catches and made dreams come true. Every angler went home ecstatic with extremely sore arms, but a great story to tell about.

One morning, I remember one of our Canadian anglers say “this guy has on his survival gear.” As funny as that sounds, he was right. Fort Lauderdale’s unusually cold winter this year really got these fish feeding and we didn’t let the weather stop us from heading offshore to find ‘em. Foul weather gear, a pair of gloves and a beanie made life a lot warmer aboard the Lady Pamela II. Remember, fishing’s not just a hobby, it’s an adventure.

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Mixed in with the Sailfish are Kingfish and other species. The King Mackerel tend to show interest while live bait kite fishing, eating the goggle eyes that are suspended and intended for the Sailfish. The shipwrecks are also holding heavy with big fish that offer a great fight on light tackle; a 30 lb Amberjack will show you whose boss real quick. The Blackfin Tuna are around and make for a great fresh fish dinner. Trolling the reef also provides the opportunity to hook up with a Mahi - Mahi or two. There haven’t been a ton of Dolphin fish offshore, but that doesn’t mean you won’t run into a school and land enough for left overs. Along with the passage of fish, another snow bird will be showing up here shortly, the Game Shark. Shark Fishing season is right around the corner and the Hammerheads, Threshers and Makos will be more of a possibility as we move into Spring. South Florida Game Sharks range in size from 7 inches short to 39 feet long. They put up one helluva fight and it’s extremely rewarding when you win.

The Lady Pamela II crew has developed techniques that make daytime swordfishing a very successful sport as we’ve been able to catch them with great regularity. Research has shown that during daylight hours, swordfish hang out around 1,800 to 2,000 feet down looking to gnaw. Fresh squid and petite, whole bonito make for great bait when luring a beefy Broadbill up to the surface. The Lady Pamela II landed a 500 lb’er this month and it was one of the greatest fights we’ve experienced in Fort Lauderdale yet, it was man against fish.

January 29^th, 2010

Dr. Lee and his four buddies joined the Lady Pamela II for his 50^th birthday celebration in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. With our solid Sailfish bite, goggle eyes were a good decision. We loaded up with live bait and headed offshore to 170ft of water. Fishing was slow for the first hour then out of no where it was a feeding frenzy just feet from a freight ship. One minute everyone was just enjoying the weather, the next we had two Sails in our spread. Captain Paul set the hook and Dr. Lee fought his first Sailfish ever over the water in our new and improved fighting chair.

If you think our pictures came out great, imagine all that action happening right in front of your eyes while you’re suspended over the water. After our meet and greet, we released the Billfish back into the blue and went on our way with trolling gear in 180 - 240 ft of water. Bonito fish were swimming in herds around the boat along with a smaller Wahoo.

Happy Birthday Dr. Lee, I look forward to fishing with you guys again.

Tight Lines!

Captain David Ide

www.ladypamela2.com

954-761-8045

Captain Taco Perez -- Ft. Lauderdale
Hooked Up Sportfishing Tel: (954) 764-4344
e-mail: info@tacohookedup.com

Fishing aboard the hooked Up January 2010

Today was kind of a special day aboard the Hooked up we are heading out fishing for sail fish for a new TV show that will be airing on the discovery channel call Extreme Fishing.

We were joined by the host of the show Robson Green the director Jason Holmes, Camera Craig Herd, Sound Peter Prada, Associate Producer Findlay Mcrae and Location Producer Sarah Hunt all based out of Scotland.

We started out filming at the dock for over an hour talking about how we were going to target these sail fish and how the fishing kites actually work. After filming for a few min at the dock the crew asked me if I would mind working the cockpit so that I would actually be there with Robson during the fishing and hopefully the catching.

We headed out with a couple of things in our favor and a couple of things working against us. We had cool weather about 53 degrees which was good and we also knew that we had caught a few sails in the past few day. But once made the decision to run about 5 miles to the north we realized that not only did we have no current what so ever but we also had just barely enough wind to hold our kites up in the air. But here we were and we were going to make the best of the conditions we had.

Once Captain J.J. got the kites up in the air I started hooking our live goggles (bait) way in front end of the bait this way J.J. could keep bumping the boat forward to keep the kites flying and the baits would just be slowly trolled across the surface.

We struggled at this for well over 2 hours without a bite. (RATS)

Then J.J. yelled down from the fly bridge that he had been talking to a friend of his who was fishing about 11 miles south of us and that he had some north current down there and the he had caught a sailfish. Having said that everyone onboard grabbed a rod and we got all the baits in a quick as possible and we started our hour long journey down to the south.

As soon as we got there hopes were high and the water had a good blue color to it but the wind had let out even more so keeping the kites up became a real struggle.

We managed to keep our kites flying for about an hour but that was just not working out to well for us so we brought in the kites and set our baits out connected to the out riggers and started slow trolling them back and forth between 150 feet of water out to over 300 feet back and forth. All of a sudden out of nowhere popped up this dolphin fish and we were Hooked Up. As Robson was reeling his first fish of the day in we saw another dolphin fish swimming around than another and than even more dolphin. Ok so this was not the fish we were looking for but hell we had fish behind the boat and they were biting. When it was all said and done we had over a half a dozen dolphin in the box and we managed to get some great footage of these fish jumping and even some underwater shots of them and we all get to have a great dinner to boot.

I’ve got to admit it was a real let down to have never seen the sailfish we had worked so hard to catch but everyone seemed to have a great time all the same and they said that they did get some real good footage for their show. In fact they said that the chemistry onboard the Hooked Up was so good that they were going to give it another shot this coming Sunday if they struck out with this other boat they had already made reservations with.

As it turned out they had reserved Bouncer Smith out of Miami Florida and while the fishing was not red hot the following day either Bouncer did manage to pull a rabbit out of his hat and finally put them on a real big sail fish. (Way to go Bouncer)

To Robson and the rest of the crew at Extreme Fishing thanks again for a fun day of fishing and thanks again for the opportunity to be on your show. We are all looking forward to watching the show sometime this summer.

Captain Taco (954) 764-4344 or toll free (877) SEA-4344

Jan 12

Today the weather is in the 30s and I’ve got to say that we down here in Sunny South Florida are just not used to this weather BUT the sailfish sure do seem to turn on like no other time of the year as right now and today was no exception.

We started out our day with Tom and Steve from Main Toney from Baltimore, Louis from Texas and John from Alabama.

Once again we started out picking up some live baits from the live bait boat and went right to kite fishing. We set out our kites in 180 feet of water with our live baits suspended from the kites.

It didn’t take long before we got our first bite and as we were trying to feed the first sail fish a bait another one popped up and than one more popped up. We ended up hooking 2 out of the 3 that had popped up.

We caught those 2 and set our baits right back out there. Once we got everything set back out there another one popped up and we hooked this one as well.

By the end of our 4 hour trip with about 2 hours and 45 min of actual fishing everyone on the boat had caught a sailfish.

Five sailfish in less than 3 hours of fishing now that’s what we call RED HOT FISHING.

Thanks again to all of our anglers today and once again we are so sorry about not having our camera fixed yet so we never got any pictures of the fish.

If any of our anglers today can e mail us some photos we would love to post them along side our reports.

Captain Taco (954) 764-4344 or toll free (877) SEA-4344

Jan 13

Today we had 3 guys Joe, J.R. and John from Chicago out for a few hours of deep sea fishing off the coast of Ft Lauderdale aboard the Hooked Up.

We started out picking up some live baits and went right to kite fishing in about 200 feet of water. Once we got our baits all set out suspended from the kites the trap was set and we began our wait. Fishing started out a bit slow for us but after a bit of patience up popped our first sail fish of the day.J.R. wasted no time jumping in the chair and the fight was on. It was a big back and forth tug a war for a good 20 min before J.R. finally got his big sailfish along side of the boat. We got a quick measurement to have a replica trophy made of J.R., s catch and watched him swam away in good shape.

(Ok one down and 2 to go.) After getting all the baits reset out under the kites we started our waiting again and sure enough BAM we got another shot and this time Joe jumped in the chair and his fight was on. I’ve got to say that while all of this fishing was going on John was down stairs sleeping and he really either did not care much for deep sea fishing or maybe he was feeling a little under the weather but all the same with all the shouting going on we finally managed to wake him up and we also managed to get Joe’s fish to the side of the boat. (Ok 2 down and 1 to go.)

Once again we got the baits back under the kites and once again the trap was set. All of a sudden we saw a big shark fin swimming around by our kite baits. J.J. kept reeling the bait up in the air every time the shark tried to eat it because we were using monofilament leaders and we knew the this shark would bite threw the leader as if it was hot butter. But some how J.J. turned his head for just one second and BAM we were Hooked Up to the big hammer head shark with a monofilament leader.We all decided it was time to put John (AKA sleepy head) in the chair. We knew that our odds of catching this shark with no wire leader were slim to none but all the same John went at it. After a good 10 min of fighting this shark John somehow had the fish turned around and heading toward the boat. BUT sorry to say we ended up breaking him off about 50 feet from the boat.

Guys thanks again for a fun morning of deep sea fishing

Captain Taco (954) 764-4344 or toll free at (877) SEA-4344

Jan 15

Today we had some good friends of mine on board Jeff, Jim and Pam all came down from Jacksonville just because I had let them know that the sailfish bite was on. We were also joined by our old friend Captain Scott from Ft Lauderdale but he was just there to help us drink all the beer that Jim had brought along and also to help out in the cock pit.

Our day started out with loading up the boat with plenty of beer and vodka. Once we had the drinks loaded onboard we went right to getting some live baits just in case we decided to do any fishing (LOL)

The ocean was a bit on the rough side today I would say 4 to 6 foot seas so we knew that fishing was going to be a bit tough but we all felt we were up for the challenge.

Today we had Captain Greg driving the boat and yes yours truly was down in the cock pit. Once we got to about 150 feet of water Greg set out both kites and we suspended our little live goggles from the kites.

Everyone on board had caught sailfish in the past so we had preety good anglers ready for the fight. But we never expected a bite as fast as we got our first bite. I would say our baits were out there no more than 10 min till the first sail fish showed up on our right long kite bait. The sail grabbed the bait and started running with as if were never going to stop till will locked up the reel and set the hook. All of a sudden this fish went absolutely nuts dancing all over the surface of the water. Pam jumped in the chair and the fight was on. I really think this fish spent more time in the air than in the water.

Like I had said before all of our anglers had caught sail fish in the past and I’ve got to say Pam really put it to this fish. She got her sail next to the boat in 12 min and this was all during a pretty rough day. Once we got the fish near the boat it still was going nuts. Check out this shot!!

Ok one down and one to go. Jim was chomping at the bit to get his chance in the chair. We got the baits right back out there and it seemed like in no time BAM we were connected again and Jim was in the chair hooting and hollering. Jim’s fish did not do quite as much jumping around as Pam’s fish did but this thing just kept digging down deep and it was a reel bear to finally get next to the boat. Once we got it next to the boat I don’t know if it was the beer or the vodka or if was just the size of this fish but Jim decided he really wanted a photo and a measurement of this monster 95 inch sail fish.

After a quick picture we got this monster back in the water in great shape to fight again another day.

This is Jim and I getting him back in the water a quick as possible.

This is Jim trying to kiss me but I managed to run to the front of the boat and I can still say that I’ve never been kissed on the lips by a guy (LOL)

All in all it was simply a blast fishing today and to all of our readers out there if you’re looking to fight a big fish the time is now. We should have these big sail fish and big sharks here right thru May so give us a call and let’s get you Hooked Up but remember no kissing Taco at least not the guys.(LOL)

Captain Taco (954) 764-4344 or toll free (877) SEA-4344

Jan 22

Today we had Frank and his son Zach from Wilton Manners in South Florida and Jeff and his son Joshua from St Petersburg Florida Dave from Houston Texas and also Dave from New Jersey.

The whole idea of this fishing trip was for the 3 doctors to relax and to catch the kids some fish but we had no idea what a great trip it would turn out to be.

We started out by stopping by the live bait boat and picking up a dozen live goggle eyes than we went right to kite fishing. We set out both kites with 4 of our live baits suspended from the kites.

Ok now the baits were all set out there and the trap was set.

After about 10 min of waiting we seen a sailfish jumping (we call it a flopper) just north of our long kite baits and he was heading south so we let the kites out just a little further hopping to get one of our baits right in front of him. But what we didn’t notice was that while we were trying to get our baits out further Captain Greg seen another sailfish chasing our short right kite bait and before we knew what was going on Greg was feeding this sailfish a nice hearty goggle eye. Just like that BAM we were Hooked Up

11 year old Zach jumped at the chance to fight his first sailfish. He jumped in the chair and the fight was on. It was a great back and forth tug a war for over 15 min till Finally Zach got this nice 85 to 89 inch sailfish to the side of the boat. We got a couple of good pictures of Zach’s first sailfish and watched him swim away in great shape. Nice going Zach.

While Zach was fighting his sail we also managed to keep all the other kite baits out there hopping to get in front of the flopper we had seen in the first place. While we never did get in front of the first sail we had seen we did manage to catch Zach’s fish and it only took about 5 seconds to get the forth bait back in the spread. And once again the trap was set.

This time we waited a good 30 min and then all of a sudden BAM here comes another sailfish all over our short left kite bait. It took this sail no time at all to catch his meal and the fight was on with 7 year old Joshua in the chair. I’m not sure what was lit up more the sailfish or this 7 year old kid that was all over the sail fish fight. While Joshua was about 55 to 58 inches long this sail was at least 87 inches long and what a ball it was just to watch these two battle it out. At the end of this 32 min fight Joshua ended up being the victor. (Way To Go Joshua)

What a great day it seemed we could do no wrong today but wait once we got the baits back out there Greg yelled out that he thought he seen anther fish way out there by the left long kite bait. Once I got a look at what I thought was a shark Greg locked up the reel and came tight with the so called shark I thought I seen out there but much to my surprise out came this sailfish dancing all over the surface of the water and we were Hooked Up again with another sailfish.

This time Dave jumped in the chair and the fight was on. It was a 15 min back and forth tug a war but Dave got his fish to the boat and after a couple of quick pictures next to the boat we watched him swim away in good shape.

With only a few min left in the trip we got a bite on our right long bait only this time no one seen the bite but we figured with all the sails we were catching this just has to be another sail.

I think it was Frank that jumped in the chair but all the same whoever it was this fish never came up jumping and was coming in a bit too easy. As it turned out it was a skip jack tuna.

I’ve got to say what a fun day of fishing with pretty much none stop action and to top it off none of the other boats were seeing any sails so like they say every dog has his day and I guess today was ours.

Thanks again Frank and the rest of our anglers today.

Well we are way into January and the bite has been red hot so give us a call and let’s get you HOOKED UP off the coast of SUNNY SOUTH FLORIDA

Captain Taco (954) 764-4344 or toll free (877) SEA-4344

Captain Taco (9540 764-4344 or toll free (877) SEA-4344

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