my folks have a house in Pomano Beach, a little town called Lighthouse Point. they are on a deep canal. every day when i go there, when i'm out back, there's a BIG cuda swimming slowly back and forth up and down the canal. we throw everything in our bag at him, he wont touch it. the locals there say he's fed very well, so he wont chase anything. we know it's the same one cause he's got a prop scar on his dorsal. but anyway, there's a fishing pier just north of there, Deerfield Beach fishing pier. i fished there one day, and i caught nada all day. then, one of the locals showed me the way. he had a five gallon bucket dangled off the pier, just below the water's surface. in the bucket was canned cat food. the bucket was full of tiny holes. baitfish of all varieties were swarming this bucket. he handed me a small pole, rigged to it was a sabiki rig, with 6 tiny hooks. i dangled the rig into the swarm, dropped it back and forth a few times, and pulled up 5 shiny live baits. he told me to hook one through the dorsal with no weight, and drop my line out. i did as i was taught, and ten minutes later i was rewarded with a 11 pound amberjack that fought like mad! had to use a bridge net to get him up to the pier. after a few pics, i gave him to my new teacher, and went back to try some more. caught 6 that day, all around the same size. great fighters. me and my pop fish south florida all the time now, when i get down there. what a variety of fish!
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