You need go no further from home than South Florida to find an exciting, fun-filled fishing trip. Charters are available for a few hours or for a whole day and you can hop onto the boats from several South Florida locations like Fort Lauderdale, Miami and Pompano Beach, to name only a few. All of the charters take you to rich fishing waters where there is really great sports fishing to be had. You can expect to hook yourself plenty of sailfish, kingfish and even a shark or two. You don’t even have to be that lucky to tick all these off your list.

South Florida’s ultimate prize is probably the sailfish. These fish can grow to an enormous size, one of the reasons they are such a highly prized catch. Weights well in excess of a hundred pounds are not uncommon. To have the best chance of catching sailfish, use a kite and trail live bait just below the surface of the ocean. This technique will also attract the attention of other large sports fish like tuna.

South Florida fishing doesn’t necessarily offer the easiest fishing in the world, but your catch will mean all the more for you having had to work for it. What is easy, though, is the access to South Florida fishing. Most of the best fishing at all the famous fishing spots is little more than two miles offshore – and much of it is even closer. That takes all the travel, waiting and fuss out of going on a South Florida fishing trip. Save all your energy for catching all those fantastic sports fish – you’ll need all the energy and muscle power you can muster. Take a strong friend along with you too! Florida sports fishing is not a solo activity, for safety’s sake, but you’ll be glad of another pair of arms when you’ve battled for twenty minutes with a marlin, sailfish, tuna or shark!

Sailfish certainly make a fight of it and you won’t find them easy to land, but they are nothing to compare to the power and tenacity of the sharks that populate the South Florida waters. You can find Threshers, Hammerheads and Bull sharks in the waters around South Florida and professional guide will get you right where the action is.

If you get so good at South Florida fishing that you fancy your chances in a bit of a competition, then you’ll find plenty to try your hand at hear. You have a great chance of hooking in a prize trophy specimen. You may even want to bring it home to grace your walls rather than eating it, but there is a third, nature-friendly way; have you ever thought of taking photos of your catch to have an artificial mount made? With clear photos and a quick measure of your catch, it is easy to preserve it for posterity in plaster or fiberglass mount so it can be a talking point in your home for years to come, while the fish itself lives to fight another day and provide another angler with a great day’s fishing.