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She is a keeper for sure plumber! Most wives expect their spouse to plan something or buy something for them, and sometimes forget there is two in the relationship. Looks like a good time was had by both. Goes without say, are you fishing the CFOA tourney on the 19th? I hope to do it this year and meet you at the Cpt party.

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Boys weekend off – Scott Cusick from NJ, Bob Urie and Eric Laubach from PA chartered the Happy Day Today along with the Topshotfishing team to do some deep sea fishing here in Fort Lauderdale FL. A 20% chance of rain, wind out of the east, southeast, 10-15 mph, blue skies – a typical gorgeous day here in Fort Lauderdale.

We left the dock and in 20 minutes lines were in the water. I headed out to one of the 34 artificial wrecks we have in Fort Lauderdale FL to set for Shark fishing. We had one bait on the surface, one midrange and one on the bottom in 350 feet of water, and a kite out with two live Goggle Eyes. Our first fish was an 8 lb. Mahi Mahi from the long left kite. Eric was the angler and was happy to catch tonight’s diner. As the guys were discussing business and where they were off to next weekend, the deep rod bent over. The line peeled off the reel at a high speed tone, and at the same time, line on the surface bait started going out. A double header!!!!!! Two Sharks on at the same time!!!!! Bob and Scott were the anglers. Both Sharks headed in opposite directions causing a Chinese Fire Drill, and our mate, Jackson, untangled the lines very quickly to put us back in a fighting position. Forty-five minutes later, the bottom fish appeared – a Hammerhead Shark in the 250 lb. range – and Bob brought him to the boat. Pictures were taken and the Shark was released. With a smile on Bob’s face, it was Scott’s turn to bring his fish in. Scott brought the Shark to the side of the boat after a long battle – again pictures were taken and the Shark was released.

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Here is Shoeless & Beerman at the bait spot... How did you all make out today? We also got a shoutout from Tuna man who drove down from north florida for some fun in the sun in the Paradise we all live in here. How did you make out today Don?





Morning sunrise...





We made our way offshore and stopped again to pick up a few cigar minnows. Headed to pick-up some BFT before heading out deep to search for fins. Trolled around for about and hour with nothing hooking up this morning on the chains. Turned eastward and found a weedline in 700ft. The weedlines today were running east to west.

Worked these weeds for awhile chunking and squirting out some menhaden oil. I finally installed a new outlet for my downrigger so we put down the downrigger. Not bites so we continued east. Made it all the way out to 23 miles offshore working some other small weedlines with no luck.

Looped back in to the Hill and dropped down the rigger and made one drift down the ledge. Got a shout out again from Shoeless that he is hooked up again 8 miles north of the Hill on another gaffer fin. Decided to make the run as it has now flattened out enough to allow us to run wide open and get there in short order.

We get about 6 miles north of the hill in 514 ft to an awesome rip with tons of weeds and dropped in some dines to bump troll our way to Shoeless. Jen immediately gets hooked up to her first fin...





Here is Matt dehooking the fin. This fin was a loner. Surprised as I would have thought a chinese fire drill was about to go off...







Dropped down the rigger and continued northward. Hats off to Shoeless for helping us put the first fish in the boat. It was now about 12:30pm so it was sure nice to break the ice. It is sure nice to have fellow forum members out there willing to help out each other.

Worked this rip for a few hours even located a tree but to our surprise someone was already there an picked it clean :grin

Decided to head back south to the AJ spot. I dialed in the numbers and we stopped at a few more weed patches along the way. Ran into a pocket of 81 degree water and fished that for about a 1/2 hour with nothing showing up. We did find this floating on the surface. Anyone know what this is called?



Arrived to the AJ spot with nobody there. Quickly set-up the first drift. Dropped down a large goggle eye down to the bottom and Matt was immediately hooked up.







Went back up and now its Jens turn. We strapped on the fighting belt and get her set for the big fight. She gets hooked up on the 3rd drift on another large goggle eye.



CLICK THE NEXT (4) PICTURES TO WATCH VIDEOS OF JENS AWESOME JOB LANDING HER FIRST AJ









Heres a few pics of her first AJ. Congrats on an awesome job Jen fighting this fish for about a 1/2 hour oh and for also kciking Matts butt again for the most and biggest fish of the trip :grin.





We ran in from here to stop at the Sandpile in hopes of putting them on a big shark. Couldn't get the anchor to set. Chris, can you email me a pic or how you have your chain wired to yours? Seems like this set-up is not allowing my anchor to connect. We left it out to at least slow down the drift but never caught anything and decided to call it a day.

Gave Hank (Ocean Motion) a shout out asking if he wanted one of the AJ's. Joann answered the phone and relayed the message. Get back to the zoo at the ramp around 4pm and got the boat out. I hear that familar voice coming from the otherside of the boat. Joann showed up to pick up an AJ... It was sure nice seeing you again Joann. Hope the fish was good... :thumbsup

While cleaning Matts AJ down at the docks I saw Swordawet Pete who had a successful day. Nice seeing you again Pete.

Todays Tally

1 Fin
2 AJ's

We ran 76 miles today and had a blast even though the fish were not cooperating. :thumbsup

Tip of the day

Once you catch the baits and you start your run offshore, look for rips off in the distance as you run out. They look like an edge of calm water and rougher water. Majority of the time they run north and south but sometimes they run in other directions. Once you locate one and fish it, and you’re ready to move onto the next one, position your boat 90 degrees to this one and check your compass reading and run out to the next one (if there is a next one). Works the same for weedlines as it did for us today. We ran across about 15 weedlines today all running east to west, just wasn't any fish on them.

Hope it helps you all. :thumbsup


Random Pics on the day









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Taking Lonnie & Don out today in hopes of finding anything that bends a rod. Hit a couple of bait spots and quickly loaded up on Sardines with a few runners and cigar minnows mixed in. Headed offshore in search of some good looking weeks. Made it all the way to 300ft with not much worth stopping at.







Decided to drop in the chains in hoped of picking up a few BFT's before we continued eastward. Just got the lines set and FISHON... Both Okuma reels start singing that sweet music of a double header







Put two nice BFT's in the box after quickly bleeding them and got the lines back out and circled around to hopefully pick up a few more. Here is Don on another one that came unglued.



Trolled around another 45 minutes with only one more fish that came unglued and decided to head east. Made it out to 700ft to a nice weedline.

Set-up a nice drift with the dines and after about 20 minutes my long line gets nailed by a Sailfish. Don is on his first Sailfish.













Here is Don after a successful release... He was tired out :grin



[COLOR="#0000CD"]CLICK THE PICTURE BELOW TO SEE THE GOPRO UNDERWATER VIDEO:[/COLOR]

If you watch closely, when the video first starts the hook is in the bill, at the end of the video the hook is not wrapped around his tail. As soon as this happened we quickly got him to the boat and has a successful release.



Here is Vindawg & crew. How did you guys make out today?



Ran out to 900ft to see if there was anything out there worth fishing on and get a shout out from Vinny that they just hooked up a nice fin in the same area that we released the Sailfish. Opted to head back in to that area and stopped at some weeds in 800ft and worked that area for awhile.

Worked our way in to the AJ spot and put Don on another first.





Stopped in 80ft and Don got another first today. Congrats on the Trifecta Don... Bonita...

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Arrived back at the ramp to have this guy hang out with us on the way to the docks...



Todays Tally:

2 /4 BFT's
Sailfish
AJ
2 Bonitas (One in the box Matt for shark fishing tomorrow :grin)

I will post up some underwater videos once they finish uploading.

Met some forum members at the ramp today but sorry I couldn't remember your names. Were heading out again tomorrow in search of one of these :grin



Tip of the day

Additional space in the garage to hold your rods:
•Heres an easy rod holder you can make for the garage to stow up to as many rods as you would like to drill holes for plus some added shelf space for the gear.







•The bungee cords make it a quick and easy way to keep them secured.





Random Pics on the day











On a side note:

I want to thank Matt @ the West Marine in Stuart for taking care of my Humminbird GPS/Sonar issue. I downloaded the new software update from the Humminbird site into my 788C GPS system about a month ago.

Since then my GPS screen starts jumping around at will. I could fix it by rebooting the system but it would start up again. I contacted Humminbird and they told me to reset the factory settings. I did that and it still didn’t fix the issue.

I contacted Humminbird again and they said to ship it to them and pay to have them fix it. Good thing I bought the extended warranty from West Marine. I walked in there on Wednesday at lunch time and they determined that my unit was discontinued, they located the next closest model 788ci HD and I picked it up the next day.

Thank You Matt for saving me a hassle with Humminbird and getting me back on the water without missing a beat.]]> no_email@example.com (alwaysforward) http://florida-offshore.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&p=6851#6851