Today was kind of a special day aboard the Hooked up we are heading out fishing for sail fish for a new TV show that will be airing on the discovery channel call Extreme Fishing.

We were joined by the host of the show Robson Green the director Jason Holmes, Camera Craig Herd, Sound Peter Prada, Associate Producer Findlay Mcrae and Location Producer Sarah Hunt all based out of Scotland.

We started out filming at the dock for over an hour talking about how we were going to target these sail fish and how the fishing kites actually work. After filming for a few min at the dock the crew asked me if I would mind working the cockpit so that I would actually be there with Robson during the fishing and hopefully the catching.

We headed out with a couple of things in our favor and a couple of things working against us. We had cool weather about 53 degrees which was good and we also knew that we had caught a few sails in the past few day. But once made the decision to run about 5 miles to the north we realized that not only did we have no current what so ever but we also had just barely enough wind to hold our kites up in the air. But here we were and we were going to make the best of the conditions we had.

Once Captain J.J. got the kites up in the air I started hooking our live goggles (bait) way in front end of the bait this way J.J. could keep bumping the boat forward to keep the kites flying and the baits would just be slowly trolled across the surface.

We struggled at this for well over 2 hours without a bite. (RATS)

Then J.J. yelled down from the fly bridge that he had been talking to a friend of his who was fishing about 11 miles south of us and that he had some north current down there and the he had caught a sailfish. Having said that everyone onboard grabbed a rod and we got all the baits in a quick as possible and we started our hour long journey down to the south.

As soon as we got there hopes were high and the water had a good blue color to it but the wind had let out even more so keeping the kites up became a real struggle.

We managed to keep our kites flying for about an hour but that was just not working out to well for us so we brought in the kites and set our baits out connected to the out riggers and started slow trolling them back and forth between 150 feet of water out to over 300 feet back and forth. All of a sudden out of nowhere popped up this dolphin fish and we were Hooked Up. As Robson was reeling his first fish of the day in we saw another dolphin fish swimming around than another and than even more dolphin. Ok so this was not the fish we were looking for but hell we had fish behind the boat and they were biting. When it was all said and done we had over a half a dozen dolphin in the box and we managed to get some great footage of these fish jumping and even some underwater shots of them and we all get to have a great dinner to boot.

I’ve got to admit it was a real let down to have never seen the sailfish we had worked so hard to catch but everyone seemed to have a great time all the same and they said that they did get some real good footage for their show. In fact they said that the chemistry onboard the Hooked Up was so good that they were going to give it another shot this coming Sunday if they struck out with this other boat they had already made reservations with.

As it turned out they had reserved Bouncer Smith out of Miami Florida and while the fishing was not red hot the following day either Bouncer did manage to pull a rabbit out of his hat and finally put them on a real big sail fish. (Way to go Bouncer)

To Robson and the rest of the crew at Extreme Fishing thanks again for a fun day of fishing and thanks again for the opportunity to be on your show. We are all looking forward to watching the show sometime this summer.

Captain Taco (954) 764-4344 or toll free (877) SEA-4344