07-02-2003, 06:40 PM
Lets get straight to the daily fishing activity.
Thursday (6/26), Young Kang and Hank Kirkland were back for round two. Catching bait at Haulover Inlet at 4 in the afternoon was a snap. A short run offshore to 180' off 71st Street and we put the baits out. As soon as we got to 160', we hooked a sailfish and Hank spent the next 20 minutes wrestling with the fish from a dead boat. Some boat side shots with the camera and the fish was released to test another angler's skills on another day. Next, we moved south and made a fishless drift off the Twin Towers. Moving still further south and offshore some more, we set up south of the sea buoy in 320'. We crossed the edge and continued drifting inshore. At 227' the bait with the rubber core sinker got hit and Young got his turn fighting a fish. This time it was a 20# blackfin tuna. The next stop was Government Cut to try for tarpon. On our second drift, we got our reward and once again Young was hooked up. This time it was an 80 pound tarpon that he described as being hooked to a log that would not come in. The 30 minute fight took us from the south side to the main channel and out to the second green marker before we released the silver beauty. We reset the baits and watched a thunderstorm moving our way. The lightning and thunder was getting to close for us and we headed back to Spinnaker Marina with visions of jumping sailfish, tarpon and tuna steaks on our minds.
Saturday (6/28) it was back offshore for dolphin. I had a great group of friends, Patsy Rubenstein, Peter Talavera, Leo Rodriguez, and his father Leo, Senior all from Miami, who enjoy fishing and were looking forward to this fishing trip for quite a while. We loaded up on pilchards and small jacks at Haulover Inlet and started offshore. At about 8 1/2 miles, a half dozen frigate birds were working the surface and it didn't take long before we had our first fish on. The school that came up was very finicky with feeding and we went back to trolling the dolphin juniors and picking up single fish. The frigate birds kept putting us on fish and we got a hungry school of dolphin up and everyone was hooked up. When the action stopped, we went back on the troll and started picking up singles. Everyone was getting hungry, so I stopped the boat while everyone started to satisfy their appetites. I threw out a bait and got hit immediately. Another school of fish showed up and everyone forgot about lunch. The action remained hot and furious until we got hit by a large storm. By this time, we up off Ft. Lauderdale and made the decision that we had ample fish and headed back to Haulover Inlet through the storm. It was rough going at first, however, we soon passed through the storm and the seas calmed and made the last half of the trip home a very enjoyable one.
Sunday (6/29) the wind and seas picked up and we decided to reschedule the trip. We were going to dolphin fish again and it wasn't going to be enjoyable running out through the heavy seas.
Captain Dave Kostyo
Knot Nancy Fishing Charters
305 620-5896 Charter
305 732-2628 Beeper
www.knotnancy.com
nkostyo@bellsouth.net
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Thursday (6/26), Young Kang and Hank Kirkland were back for round two. Catching bait at Haulover Inlet at 4 in the afternoon was a snap. A short run offshore to 180' off 71st Street and we put the baits out. As soon as we got to 160', we hooked a sailfish and Hank spent the next 20 minutes wrestling with the fish from a dead boat. Some boat side shots with the camera and the fish was released to test another angler's skills on another day. Next, we moved south and made a fishless drift off the Twin Towers. Moving still further south and offshore some more, we set up south of the sea buoy in 320'. We crossed the edge and continued drifting inshore. At 227' the bait with the rubber core sinker got hit and Young got his turn fighting a fish. This time it was a 20# blackfin tuna. The next stop was Government Cut to try for tarpon. On our second drift, we got our reward and once again Young was hooked up. This time it was an 80 pound tarpon that he described as being hooked to a log that would not come in. The 30 minute fight took us from the south side to the main channel and out to the second green marker before we released the silver beauty. We reset the baits and watched a thunderstorm moving our way. The lightning and thunder was getting to close for us and we headed back to Spinnaker Marina with visions of jumping sailfish, tarpon and tuna steaks on our minds.
Saturday (6/28) it was back offshore for dolphin. I had a great group of friends, Patsy Rubenstein, Peter Talavera, Leo Rodriguez, and his father Leo, Senior all from Miami, who enjoy fishing and were looking forward to this fishing trip for quite a while. We loaded up on pilchards and small jacks at Haulover Inlet and started offshore. At about 8 1/2 miles, a half dozen frigate birds were working the surface and it didn't take long before we had our first fish on. The school that came up was very finicky with feeding and we went back to trolling the dolphin juniors and picking up single fish. The frigate birds kept putting us on fish and we got a hungry school of dolphin up and everyone was hooked up. When the action stopped, we went back on the troll and started picking up singles. Everyone was getting hungry, so I stopped the boat while everyone started to satisfy their appetites. I threw out a bait and got hit immediately. Another school of fish showed up and everyone forgot about lunch. The action remained hot and furious until we got hit by a large storm. By this time, we up off Ft. Lauderdale and made the decision that we had ample fish and headed back to Haulover Inlet through the storm. It was rough going at first, however, we soon passed through the storm and the seas calmed and made the last half of the trip home a very enjoyable one.
Sunday (6/29) the wind and seas picked up and we decided to reschedule the trip. We were going to dolphin fish again and it wasn't going to be enjoyable running out through the heavy seas.
Captain Dave Kostyo
Knot Nancy Fishing Charters
305 620-5896 Charter
305 732-2628 Beeper
www.knotnancy.com
nkostyo@bellsouth.net
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