Fort Lauderdale sport fishing charter for Sailfish, Swordfish, Dolphin and Shark.

Hooked UP offers several Fort Lauderdale Sport Fishing packages to choose from:

4 Hour Fishing Trips
6 Hour Fishing Trips
8 Hour Fishing Trips
Shared Trips
Day or Night Sword Fishing Trips

If you would like to depart in the morning we can depart at 7, 8 or 9 AM. If you want to sleep in, we can also depart in the afternoon, from, 12noon, 1, 2, or 3 PM. If there is just one or two in your party and you do not want a private charter, we can find others to share the charter and split the cost.

Daytime Sword Fishing is the newest thing in Fort Lauderdale sport fishing! Trips are 8 hours or longer and sea conditions must be calm. Get in on the newest sportfishing craze! Call me for details.

For our nighttime Swordfish trips, we like to depart 2 to 4 hours before sunset. This way you can fish on the way out, catch a few Dolphin or maybe a Marlin! Sword Fishing trips are generally 9-11 hours in length. All fishing trips include:

Captain and Mate
All fishing licenses
All rods, reels and tackle
Cooler filled with ice for your beers and sodas
A lot of laughs and a Great Time!
You bring:

Hi, My name is Taco. The ocean off of the Fort Lauderdale coast is my backyard and it has been since 1969 so over the years I’ve become very good at catching fish, not just fishing these waters, so whether you are into catching that trophy fish of a life time or your looking to have that big fish fry, come get Hooked Up.

You also get a great time. We're not one of those stuffy boats where the mate and captain are stuck on themselves and barely talk to you. We want you to party, relax, or whatever you like to do. Our job is to make your time on Hooked Up the most enjoyable you can have.

You don't have to be a seasoned angler either. We will show you and your guests/family how to work the equipment. So there is no intimidation factor. We love helping people get into the sport! Let me also tell you I will assist you with locating hotels, restaurants, bars or whatever you're interested in. I know the area, since I've lived here all my life. I can make sure you don't go to the overpriced tourist traps. I will be your Fort Lauderdale connection!

Our day begins by catching some live bait. We do this by backing the boat up to a buoy or to a ship that has been anchored for a few days. Then I hold the vessel up stream of the buoy or ship we are fishing and everybody is assigned a fishing rod, he then hangs a chum bag over the side of the boat to bring all the baitfish out from under the buoy or ship. Then everybody pitches in to catch and put one or two dozen live baits in the live well it is a real team effort.

Then we break out the fishing gear to troll the reef, which consists of putting 2 artificial baits down deep, approximately 90 to 140 feet and three trolling ballyhoos on the surface and troll down the reef about 5 to 7 miles per hour zig zagging in between 80 to 140 feet of water. This is a productive way to catch kingfish and bonitos and occasionally we will get some wahoo, sailfish, barracuda, a tuna or some dolphin fish. This is always a welcomed treat or some good eating or a real beautiful trophy. But for the most part, it is a real productive way to bend the rod and get everybody use to the boat and how to work the equipment.

After we have caught some fish and had some laughs, we can dedicate the last portion of the trip to trying to catch the fish of a lifetime. Quite honestly this does not happen on every trip but the more time spent trying for that big trophy, the better the odds.

There are a lot of different ways we can catch fish. One way we finding exciting is kite fishing. This consists of flying a kite behind the boat and suspending live bait from the kite. What this does is keeps the bait swimming on the surface and away from the boat. It also presents the bait as natural as possible, since it keeps all the lines and leaders up in the air and it gives us an edge since nine out of ten times we will see the big predators before they actually get the bait in their mouths, we then let the fish swim away with the bait, lock down the drag on the reel and go ahead with the boat.

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