Captain Wally’s Fishing Report
South Florida Fishing Report – April 17, 2009
Today we had an all day four boat trip from Schell’s/Grain Belt Brewery. We had five people with us. We started the trip trolling and caught two bonito and six kingfish and missed a few more bites. We then ran south and kite fished. We caught two mahis and missed a few more. Then we [...]
South Florida Fishing Report – April 16, 2009
This afternoon we had a family of five from New York. We tried bait fishing but they were not biting good and we only caught a couple. Then we went trolling trying to catch kingfish, bonito, mahi-mahi, etc. We missed a few bites but caught two small mahis and one cero mackerel. Then we went [...]
South Florida Fishing Report – April 15, 2009
We had an afternoon trip again today. We started out catching speedos for bait. We then trolled for a little while and caught a couple of kingfish. The customers wanted to catch something big so we went shark fishing. We had the baits out for about 20 minutes ang got a bite but it did [...]
South Florida Fishing Report – April 14, 2009
We started out catching bait again today. We then trolled for a while. Trolling was slow, and we only missed one bite. Then we went wreck fishing. On the first wreck we caught a big amberjack. We then fished two other wrecks before catching another jack. We slow trolled live baits around some other wrecks [...]
South Florida Fishing Report – April 13, 2009
We had three parties of two sharing the boat this afternoon. We started the trip catching speedos. Some of the other boats were catching kingfish trolling so we tried slow trolling the speedos. We missed two or three bites then went trolling. We caught three kingfish, two bonito, and one mahi-mahi. We missed a few [...]
South Florida Fishing Report – April 12, 2009
Happy Easter! We had an afternoon trip today. We caught some bait then went shark fishing. We had a bite but it did not stay connected. We then went wreck fishing and caught a bluefish and an amberjack. The customers were having fun so they asked to stay out for longer. We then slow trolled [...]
South Florida Fishing Report – April 11, 2009
Two trips again today. The morning trip was more repeat customers. We caught speedos and slow trolled them for most of the trip. We missed a couple of fish before hooking a big kingfish. We were fishing monofilament leaders so I did not think that we would actually catch it. After fighting it for 20 [...]
South Florida Fishing Report – April 10, 2009
We again had two trips today. On the first trip we had a father and his two sons. We started out trolling and caught two bonito and one kingfish. We were hearing some of the other boats catching sailfish so we went kite fishing. We did that for a couple of hours. We had a [...]
South Florida Fishing Report – April 9, 2009
We had two trips again today. The morning trip we took out some friends of mine that work in the boatyard. We got a late start because I had to renew a license. We left the dock around 9:00 and went to catch bait. The speedos had already been hit by every other boat and [...]
South Florida Fishing Report – April 8, 2009
We stretched the day today pretty long. We started with an eight hour trip at 7:00. There were four customers from New York on the boat. We started catching speedos. Then we went kite fishing. We had one saifish eat a bait but it did not stay on the line. After doing that for an [...]