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10-17-2023, 08:35 PM
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Join Date: May 2014
Location: Fort Lauderdale
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After an hour and a half of zilch slow trolling baits, I headed out deeper to my grouper spot. I meter a fair amount of fish, but the fish seemed to have lock jaws. After drifting and jigging over the spot about a dozen times, I eventually snagged a small Amberjack in the belly.
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10-17-2023, 08:38 PM
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Location: Fort Lauderdale
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I decided to head out to 300ft and jig for Blackfin. No luck with blackfin and a small Little Tuny was my only strike. Normally I would throw these back, but I was so desperate for fresh fish, that I decided to keep it for Poke.
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10-17-2023, 08:49 PM
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After jigging deep for about an hour, I went back in shallower one more time to drift my grouper spot. Eventually, I connected, but luck was not with me, I got smoked on my 65lb braid with and 80lb leader.
After the loss, I decided to give the wrecks of Fort Lauderdale a try. It took about an hour to motor across the shipping channel to the wreck zone. There are 4 wreck structures within 1000ft of each other. I metered a lot of bait on the wrecks. I did several drifts over them for zilch. I tried trolling baits around them for zilch. Eventually, I broke out the Sabiki to see if I could jig up a Little Tunny to troll for Wahoo. |
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10-17-2023, 08:58 PM
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I slowly trolled the Little Tunny 120ft down on a downrigger in around 200ft of water between wrecks in the area. After about an hour of trolling the clicker started screaming as the line was pulling out. I had a solid strike. I kept the kayak motoring with tension on the strike as I cranked up the downrigger ball and reeled in the surface-trolled bait.
I had high hopes for a Wahoo, but they faded away at deep color. It was still a nice King Mackerel and not a shark. After the king, I trolled for about another hour for zilch before calling it a day and heading for the barn. |
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10-17-2023, 10:21 PM
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Join Date: Feb 2007
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Nice fish!
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10-18-2023, 10:16 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: Where ever I may roam where I lay my head I call home.
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I wonder what king mackerel taste like canned
You should have your own show.
Can you get some sponsorship and a camera crew. I want to see more 👍
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10-18-2023, 12:09 PM
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10-18-2023, 12:07 PM
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