Sight Casting Brooke Frecklington with a solid mahi-mahi! Today, I’ll share my accumulated experience, tips, and techniques for catching these prized table fish. They school up in massive numbers, they put on awesome acrobatic shows, they take an amazing photo, taste wonderful, and are great on light tackle. Very underrated, yet is one of our favorites to catch! Abundant, aggressive, beautiful and tasty. We have another month of the great amberjack fest around the local shipwrecks.Mahi-mahi, dorado, dolphin-fish. They feed on sight and instantly eat any baitfish that looks like an easy meal. Amberjacks don’t leave a bait unmolested for any length of time. There are some sea monsters hanging around these wrecks. Pull up on the up-current side of a shipwreck and drop a live bait down to the bottom. If you want to try to get some quick action on some big game species, wreck fishing can be lucrative. Amberjacks are probably the strongest fish we catch, pound for pound, and are biting really good this month. We’re only 4 days away from groupers coming back into season, so get ready for that! Monster sharks are taking advantage of the plethora of good eating big game fish around these wrecks, a prime hunting ground for these apex predators. Amberjacks, grouper, cobia and sharks are all inhabitants of our local shipwrecks and all of these are biting strong this time of year. Wreck fishing is particularly good this month. Dolphin are the most desirable for their supreme edibility though, so all other fish take a back seat to them. We’re getting them here and there, about average for this time of year. Kingfish, barracuda, sailfish and more are also being caught trolling the reef and inside edge of the Gulfstream. Nice tuna caught trolling the Fort Lauderdale reef With tunas and wahoo mixed in, our dolphin catches are even better. It’s a fine line, but we can usually get near enough to catch them. If you are too far away, you won’t get the bite but if you are too close, you’ll scare the school deep. Tunas are skittish, so you need to give them a wide berth when trolling the outskirts of the school. The birds are the best method to find tuna and a savvy captain and troll near the tuna schools without getting too close and scarring them deep. They eat constantly so you will find them around anywhere where there are masses of small baitfish. Wahoo also bite very good around both the full and the new moon phases, right on the reef. Wahoo like to hang around any kind of floating debris, so when we find a nice hunk of wood floating, we know we’ve hit the honey hole. They travel in the same waters as mahi-mahi so it only makes sense that we’re getting into some of them as well. The wahoo and tuna are biting pretty decent out there too. Here’s a fisher gal with a nice catch of mahi and a wahoo caught on our sportfishing charter Fortunately, we always do this no matter what the conditions, so when the fish are actually present and biting, it makes it looks just plain easy! You need to go out trolling, cover a ton of territory, use every fishing trick you know and then still get lucky to catch them. I don’t want to make it seem like you can go out and catch these dolphin on demand with no effort involved. This is the most efficient way to fish dolphin as you need to ‘put in the miles’ to find them. Our most successful fishing trips have been made by trolling artificial and rigged dead baits on the surface, trolling pretty fast and trying to cover as much territory as we can. They are hanging near any kind of weedline or scattered debris you can find floating out there. The dolphin are scattered in anywhere from 200ft to 800ft of water offshore of Ft Lauderdale. So many of our trips are coming in with unforgettable dolphin catches these past couple weeks. The dolphin bite happening offshore of Fort Lauderdale this year is outta this world and the best I have seen in many years. Nice catch of dolphins on our sportfishing charter.
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