Conditions were just right for a nighttime Swordfish trip tonight. Joe, Adam, Paul and I headed offshore and reached our destination around 7:30 PM. Our bait consisted of dead Squid and Bonito fish. Within the first hour of soaking our baits, we caught a small Swordfish, 42 inch’er. After a few pictures, we released the baby back into the blue for a future fight. Bait went back out and the greatest shark fishing began. By midnight, we had caught 13 sharks; Hammerhead Sharks, Cuban Night Sharks and Thresher Sharks would not leave us alone. After we got to shark #13, we packed up and ran back to Fort Lauderdale.
October 14th, 2010
Five people joined the Lady Pamela II on a shared charter today. After last nights Sword fishing/Shark fishing adventure, we knew the Sharks were in town and hopefully we could put them on one. Live bait was in the well and we headed offshore trolling blue and white sea witches. The King Mackerel were not hiding it was Kingfish after Kingfish. We must have caught 8 Kings and some Bonito. So we went out to 400 feet of water and put out our baits.
After an hour, the mid bait got a bite. As the boat is going forward, Michael jumps into the chair and gets set up to haul in this monster catch. It was a 30-minute battle and we landed him in the boat.
October 16th, 2010
Barry and his family from Fort Lauderdale came with Paul and I aboard the Lady Pamela II.
Paul was running the boat today. We started out the trip catching some live Bonito around the whistle buoy. We only caught one, so we started trolling with three rigger baits and two planers one down 40 feet and the other around 60 feet. On the planers, we were using pink/white and green Mylar sea witches with fresh mullet strips. It took the first hour before I got a bite and our first fish was a 10 lb. Kingfish. As the trip went on we slowly picked up some fish a King here a few Bonitos, then Paul hooked up with a nice fish on the top bait. A sailfish and it was jumping all over the ocean.
Barry’s’ friend Mike gets to reel in the Sailfish. It was small, around 5 feet or so. A sailfish always makes the trip exciting. Next, we went out to 600 feet looking for Mahi-Mahi. That did not last long when the guys said, let’s go look for more Kings. As we got back in around 100 feet, we got a strike. Barry reels the fish to the boat and it is a five-foot Trumpet fish. It was awesome. I never saw one like this. It was pretty with all sorts of colors, yellow and neon blues. It was the coolest fish We had ever caught It was amazing.
So, for Barry and Mikes trip total we caught 4 Kings, 1 Sailfish, 2 Bonitos and 1 Trumpetfish.
October 17th, 2010
Today looked like the start of Sailfish season.
In the morning, I had four guests Shaun and his wife from California and Randy and his wife from Quebec.
On the way out the Inlet, we stopped and Shaun and Randy bought as dozen goggle-eyes.
We proceeded out the Inlet to around 100 feet of water and started trolling, looking for Wahoo, Kings and Dolphin. There was a little south current. I trolled in and out from 100 to 200 feet and got two bites. Caught one Kingfish as we got up to the North, I saw that the conditions were almost perfect. North wind 15-20 knots, a nice north swell and they were “TAILING”.
I got our kites up with four goggle-eyes. It did not take long, ten minutes and we had a huge Sail on my left short rigger and another on my long. I missed the one on the long but Shaun was in the chair with the first Sail. Shaun never had caught a big fish in sal****er before and now he had a fish on the end of his line that most people would die for. As Shaun is fighting his fish, I yelled right short. Randy hooks the fish. While I am backing down, Shaun runs up to the bow of the boat with his, so his line does not hit the boat. We caught Randy’s in 10 minutes and released it.
We then continued for another 60 minutes before getting Shaun’s fish up to the boat. It was an action packed four hours of fishing.
