Fishing Reports by Capt. David Ide

Fort Lauderdale, FL - Offshore - Hot & Cold February has been the usual hot & cold. One day is good and the next day you can't find a bite. On February 11th we had an All day charter. The wind was North at 10 kts and we heard the sailfish bite was good off of the Miami S more...
Capt. David Ide - Fort Lauderdale

Fort Lauderdale, FL - Offshore - The Sailfish are still here! The Weather has been calm, but the sails still came. We have been out most every day for the past 10 days. The winds have been calm and the current has been decent on most days. We prefer a North current, bringing t more...
Capt. David Ide - Fort Lauderdale

Fort Lauderdale, FL - Offshore - The Weather and the Fishing are Great! On Monday January 14th, we had E-NE winds, the current was going North and the water was green. We heard the Sailfish bite was decent off the steeple. We started kite fishing in 130' of water and fishing more...
Capt. David Ide - Fort Lauderdale

Fort Lauderdale, FL - Offshore - The Sailfishing is only getting better. We have been catching Sailfiish every trip for the past week. Most fish have been in 120 to 180 feet of water and they have been biting live bait out of the kite. Most fish are from 25 lbs (6') to 75 lbs more...
Capt. David Ide - Fort Lauderdale

Fort Lauderdale, FL - Offshore - Happy Holiday! The weather was rough the past few days. We fished South and caught some nice Groupers. Red Grouper and Black Groupers, from 5 to 30 lbs. We also caught lots of Dolphin from 5 to 20 lbs. One day we were 4 for 4 on the Sails. more...
Capt. David Ide - Fort Lauderdale

Fort Lauderdale, FL - Offshore - Fishings great, when the wind lets up! Once the winds let up, we caught Sails, Dolphin, Kingfish, Barracudas and even a Wahoo. All the fish were caught live baiting with Kites. The Dolphin were all gaffers and the Sails were from 10 lbs to 60 lb more...
Capt. David Ide - Fort Lauderdale

Fort Lauderdale, FL - Offshore - More Sails! Yesterday, we put out 3 small live bonitas and 10 minutes later we were fighting 3 sailfish! What a great day! We caught the triple header and went on to ccatch a Amberjack, a nice kingfish and a Barracuda. All this on our 1 to 5pm t more...
Capt. David Ide - Fort Lauderdale

Fort Lauderdale, FL - Offshore - The Sails are here! The Fort Lauderdale Billfish Tournament was this past weekend. Lots of sails were caught. We managed to catch a few sails and we won the Fun Fish division. That means we caught the moast Dolphin, (Mahi-mahi) Kingfish, Waho more...
Capt. David Ide - Fort Lauderdale

Fort Lauderdale, FL - Offshore - When the wind blows, the fishing stories flow! The wind has been blowing for weeks. The good news is that the wind is blowing all the bait down the coast. Behind this bait, the Sailfish, big Kingfish, Tarpon, Sharks and many more species are a more...
Capt. David Ide - Fort Lauderdale

Fort Lauderdale, FL - Offshore - Fishing in only getting better! The day before the Rains last week, we found the Dolphin. We had our limit (60) and the fish were all from 4 lbs to 30 lbs. What a day. We even had a few Kings and a couple of Amberjacks! The Kings really bit go more...
Capt. David Ide - Fort Lauderdale