Florida Fishing out of Dania and Fort Lauderdale - Offshore

[JohnMckroidJr]

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.

[JohnMckroidJr]

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.

[JohnMckroidJr]

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.

[f'nsabiki]

Nice fish!

[MITCHELL]

You should have your own show.
Can you get some sponsorship and a camera crew. I want to see more 👍

[JohnMckroidJr]

Originally Posted by MITCHELL

You should have your own show.
Can you get some sponsorship and a camera crew. I want to see more 👍

Thanks, LOL -- wouldn't that be awesome to get paid to have fun!

[JohnMckroidJr]

Originally Posted by f'nsabiki

Nice fish!

Thanks.