HUGE 227lb Swordfish! – February Fishing Report

Welcome Back! This week we are back on the docks with captain Nick as we hear from the Catch 22 on their HUGE 227lb swordfish! We will also get to hear from the Kalex on their 60.7lb Cobia! As well as hear about some of the backcountry fishing!

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It’s February 1st here early February fishing port at buber’s alada tan man’s backing in now and it sounds like there’s been some really good catches today we’re going to see what these guys got and I heard we got a big storage coming in as well so stay tuned here we

Go oh nice have pop it out oh you’re the realtor that the cards in there yeah T man just unloaded they got a nice African pompo they got a bunch of king mackerel about 10 or 12 yellow Tails it looks like a good catch what’s your name

I’m Floyd Floyd where are you guys from We’re from uh Charlotte North Carolina from Charlotte North Carolina they got out of the cold came down here it was chilly this morning though right it was it warmed up now warmed up very nice who got the Aman pomp up that was that guy

Right there you got the AP he got the AP you’re going to mount it put on the wall or no should I I don’t know it’s a cool Mount those are some fish mounts over there we got but the aps are pretty special we don’t catch tons of them say

Do it I said let’s do it I you sure Mt they get hung up there yeah have you guys been here before or no it’s my first time first time been here you have all right well he already came back from where you you guys have come back most

Definitely was Matt good was he great great they said he was great about Ryan Ry he don’t stop look at him I know he’s working working like a dog out there what would you take that to get it Mount um Madden that right up there do AR you

Know it’s a fiberglass replica mount with great tax all mold you want they’re just really cool fish won’t catch tons of them what round yeah on you got the B Cuda I think me yeah all right now Matt said I can have that for bait is that

True can I have it for bait all right recommend tan man absolutely absolutely absolutely what are you going to do for dinner tonight Snappers take it their little platter so they’re going to go to Lazy Days next door they’re stand right up the road and have a good fish dinner cooked up I

Appreciate you guys talking to us and uh congrats on the day and hope we’ll see you back down here soon we’re going to get the scale we just got worri the cashew went two got a big swordfish over 250 lb might be 300 lb and uh first made

And AJ just shot landed a message there saw on video and it’s it going so we’re getting the 1000 lb scale and uh we got a 200 lb one up there but if it’s over 20000 a going to work so let’s get the scale there go see what this big swordfish Weighs there he is there he is Big sword up T too Captain Scot in his guys who is the angler you are congratulations first swordfish first swordfish yes sir first and last you’re going back for more all right good some people quit while head but it’s kind of Addicting 220 lb I’m going to say

211 and a half 218 218 say 25 oh you got you real didn’t it what do you think I was going you’re going 230 oh you watch that show What’s that show pric is right or something I don’t know were they all the last guy gets to over bid the last

Guy you got The Heavy no this is going up we’re going to find out it’s over 84 you got to come back down the scale is faulty wait the bills on the ground though keep going T A bird just pooped on me all right good luck you had the good luck today h

You want some of this good luck brother 225 lb or the nose is still on the ground might been a pound or two more hang on he’ll tell you right here if he gets it there you go now we’ll get it for sure 227 there you go nice 227 pounder yeah be careful

Anyway door AJ had a tuna door too though just gaap it yeah I wasn’t with them yeah I harpooned it I see the Harpoon in the back side and I harpooned it and gapped it and got him I just yank alive yeah I fought it for a couple

Hours this oh looks like a bird poop bird pooped on me they say it’s good luck good luck that’s what everybody keeps saying yay Wonder bird pooped on that guy Today I’m at the favorite spot in the marina the fuel pump Captain Bill’s over there getting gas Captain Max is here he got a good back country report for us what’s been biting back country uh didn’t fish this morning but yesterday was real good kind of classic cold front

Fishing we caught a lot of black drum they showed up in big numbers how many is a lot uh 18 or 20 that’s a lot of black drum um and pretty nice fish you know like four or five Pounders so like good hard P drag pulling fish uh quite a

Few sheeps had probably 10 sheeps had too including a couple nice ones um uh couple snook one of them which is a really solid one um and kind of odds and ends Jack Snappers catfish but lots of activity no red fish did we find yesterday well it sounds like you caught

Everything else back there Prett much catch this time of year ex exactly and we struck out on the red fish but they’re around I just zigged when I showed a red fish zagged okay people happy yeah oh yeah where were they from one guy from Texas it was a like a

Corporate duo we had a sales guy and yeah sales guy and a client I think there was a Texan and a Georgian oh there you go that’s a nice combo there so that’s inore all catch release did you keep anything for dinner no we kept a couple of black drum and a sheep’s

Head and actually we got the biggest kroer I’ve ever seen here kept a kroer like that long I’ve never seen a cro here to begin with Al that sounds like good action so on shrimp jigs what yeah shrimp and jigs shrimp and jigs so back country fish in here um that was the

Last day of January today’s the first day of February yep good action good job thanks for the update absolutely thank you Dro Max gas Penny we’re here with Captain Mike Basset Jeff half day or full day uh full day had a full day trip he runs one of the inore boats here what

Do you have a dolphin correct yes sir got a dolphin there what’ you do I see some fish in the bucket here I see dinner got some muttons some big yellow bar Jacks U some pork some Yellow Tail decent Siz grouper we let them go cuz they’re out of season of

Course uh caught a few Spanish Maxs so it was a good day on the patch re or did you got back then to the patch re uh we did the patch re first and then we did a little bit out out in the Gulf awesome so a lot of these boats especially in

The weather’s calm like this we got like a northwest wind today they can go to the patch roofs a mile to 2 miles offshore and have great action catch good eating fish and uh looks like you had dinner covered yes sir all right Captain Mike you guys come check him out

Mike pass it here at Al marada yeah thank you very much come look me up so sish bite this winter has been a little tough but the last couple weeks there has been a few good days mixed in the bartender salur was just last Monday so

A few days ago and there was actually a really good bite of fish bazon took first place they had the people from the ocean view and they had nine sailfish second place went to two I believe out a Kil they had eight fish then third place

Was six fish so that was really good to see the fish turn on today Cas also had a sailfish on the way in with that swordfish give me Jimmy has two selfish flags flying and you know with it being a little tougher earlier this year it’s nice to see some Fisher hopefully this

Next couple months we see some more sales around and uh I know Dylan had a few sish too on his trip on the B&M so hopefully the bait stays here balaho sarinos and some of the guys are flying Ka some goag too but saish are one of

The most popular fish here to catch and Target they fight great they jump around and uh hopefully it stays good here the next few weeks for him cuz and a lot of people like to check them off the bucket list and some other fishing report info C Mike and the broadminded that’s our

42ft Freeman he was at swordfishing yesterday first mate Doon in their group they had a busy day they uh hooked three swords they landed two which they both released from small fish they had a keeper fish around 100 lb near the boat that got off and they said they hooked

One other one down deep that came off right away so some good action swordfish bites picking up and uh this is one of our favorite times year to fish so I’m cutting some bait up here but hopefully we’ll get another boat or two today if

Not that’ll wrap it up but uh let’s see what happens here the next hour and some good fishing here we got some good weather temperatures are down about 60° this morning and it warmed up this afternoon about probably 70 72 I’d say and uh the winds are light variable for

A couple more days and looks like we have another front coming next week but got to get out there where the weather’s good and get down here and go fishing um you know it’s not really Mahi season now but when the boats are live bating on

The edge of reef for just upshore you can catch anything you can catch mackerel you catch sailfish even some Mahi and the Gimme Jimmy had a decent Mahi yesterday and then in the back country I know Captain John Johansson he had a good day and he had a really nice

Copia they brought home for dinner and we’ve seen some good kobia this year so that’s good to see uh here we are we went out in the Florida Bay today actually a little further out Rob caught a goliath grouper today on his fly rod we caught some other goliaths caught a

Nice Kobe I lost one we’re trying to catch some big lemon sharks on fly today they they didn’t tease up well but had some close opportunities bunch of other Jacks what the heck else did we catch Jack trout all sorts of sers busy day three guys on

The boat and we were stepping on each other all day it was pretty wide open wind was a little bit of a factor but we all are seasoned together fishermen so we did well girls were on one boat guys were on another boys boys be the girls I wasn’t

Going to say that because that could you know go fast right well officially for the record I guess you got to call it as it is the girls today did not beat the boys yeah we’ll just show you the one that we we needed a fish for dinner we try to

Catch and release most most of our fish is back in the bay if you just take enough for dinner and don’t wipe your area out they’ll be for the other people 20 24 we really got to look at some conservation this is the one we decided

To keep I don’t know if he’s 35 40 lb but he’s pretty big you say let’s call 40 here grab the tail real quick right out into the Gulf of Mexico there was a handful more with them this is the only one we felt we needed to harvest also the party boat

The ref fishing was on fire for them the other day they had their limited yellow tales in the party boat there the Miss Al marada that’s the group boat it’s 110 per person the most affordable way to get there for a quality fishing trip and

You know it’s not a private Char so it’s a group trip and uh they had 120 y Tails they had a really big mutton snapper that was you know 32 in long so a huge mutton which was good and it’s nice to see this ref fish you know picking up

Cuz you can got there and you catch dinner and get that covered Captain Bill Basset I know he’s been in the back country too on his uh Maverick there he’s got a Maverick and inshore boat and he’s been on the usual fish he’s had some really nice snook he’s had a few

Red fish and then some like the trout and the Jacks the Snappers and all that stuff too we’re here with Captain Trevor from the whitew the Spartan boat Spartan Charters see some Snappers is that right yeah some yellowtail Snappers what else you fish for well we tried fishing for

Some King Fish we had a couple bites and uh wasn’t really happening and tried Wahoo trolling didn’t get a bite but uh we did see a free jumping sale out in like 250 ft it was um couldn’t really get a bait to it but um yeah came in

With we got dinner we got dinner covered at least nice weather out there yeah pretty weather bartenders you had good action in that tournament right yeah we had bunch of saale bites what’ you catch four of them four out of nine that’s a good action yeah the best day of the

Year yeah for sure finally been kind of tough good job on the sales there who’ you have with you who was your Anglers uh we had uh my girlfriend Kelly we were representing The Islander bar and um the rest of the gang is The Islander awesome

Mikey was running R in the boat and uh yeah we had a lot of fun I heard you guys won the Coconut for those Kio yeah we um we did a dunkaroo and hooked up on a double right after that there you go took a video and won the Coconut I know

Frank was happy that Lo KY bear franker company and they uh he sponsor that tournament yeah all right well thanks for the update hopefully the weather stays decent a few more days cuz I think another friend’s coming it looks like yeah but uh hope we get out there all right

Cool mom I first day back and we get lucky we find the kobas big school of them beautiful Ray it’s always great to see that and uh there’s probably about 35 40 kobas on them I got some videos I’m going to send a Nick and uh where we

Were just teasing them up and had them skipping chasing a Ballo it’s a beautiful site man hopefully uh hopefully they stay around and uh we caught a couple saes we had a few other shots but uh it’s just a good day with great people I’ve known for 15 18 years

Years and just happy we made it happen that’s going to wrap up this early February fishing report hope youall enjoyed it hit that like button make sure to subscribe if you want to come down here and go fishing give the marina office a call 30566 42461 remember we

Got lodging options here we’ got six standard motel rooms we got two houses on property and we got five different house boats that you can stay on so it’s not a resort but it’s a great place to come down and relax go fishing and uh hopefully we’ll see you down here soon