Today we had a farther and daughter team from Mass. We had Chuck and his 14 year old daughter Kelly spending a little quality time together away from the rest of the family to enjoy a little deep sea fishing off the coast of Ft Lauderdale and also visiting a few family members that live down here.
The goal for today was to try to catch Kelly her first sailfish.
We picked up a dozen goggle eyes (Live Baits) from the bait boat and headed down south. Once we got about 5 miles south of our inlet we set out both kites with 2 live baits suspended from each kite.
The trap was set and the fish were biting the only problem was it was big kingfish that were biting but no sails.Now don’t get me wrong we were glad to have been catching fish but we were really looking for a sailfish.Than all of a sudden I seen a sailfish on our left long kite bait and it was trying hard to catch this frisky little goggle eye. As we were watching and hoping this sail would catch the bait I noticed there were 2 sails there and BAM he finally caught the baitfish.
J.J. was feeding the fish and just letting him slowly swim away with the bait when all of a sudden he came up jumping at the boat. At this point J.J. started reeling as fast as he could as I went ahead with the boat trying to get the line tight ASAP.The line went slack and all at once J.J. and I realized that we had made a big mistake!The fish that was jumping was nowhere near the bait we were feeding to the other sailfish and we had pulled the bait right out of the mouth of the one that was trying to eat the bait! (RATS) That was 100% our bad. I don’t remember this ever happening to me before nor had it ever happen to J.J.
RATS AND DOUBLE RATS!!
Ok I guess we got our bad luck out of the way so right back out went the baits and once again the trap was set!
After licking our wounds for a few min and waiting a good 30 min BAM another sailfish popped up and this time we hooked him. YES YES and YES we were just prying this one would stay on the hook while Kelly jumped in the chair.
At first this sail was jumping all over the place but than once he settled down it was a down and dirty fight but there was no quitting in Kelly’s heart and after a good 15 min we finally had Kelly’s first sail fish next to the boat.
Once at the boat this sailfish was still full of piss and vinegar and while I was driving the boat trying not to run over the fish I never did get any pictures but all the same KELLY HAD FINALLY CAUGHT HER FIRST SAILFISH.
WAY TO GO KELLY.
Chuck and Kelly thanks again for a very exciting fishing trip you guys were a blast to fish with!!
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