Fishing Reports by Capt. David Ide

Sailfish Cup 2008 Miami Beach - 388 Fish Caught Overall! - November 11 - 12 Sailfish Cup 2008 - Miami Beach, FL November starts off the Sailfish Cup and the bite is on fire! Tuesday morning was day one of the Sailfish Cup, the first leg of the Sailfish Pro Series. After several days of pre-fishin more...
Capt. David Ide - Fort Lauderdale

Ft Lauderdale Fishing Report November - Fort Lauderdale Fishing - The Start of Sailfish Season! Mid October was when we started seeing the occasional sailfish run through Fort Lauderdale, but within the past week, the sailfish bite has been consistent. These billfish are migrating from more...
Capt. David Ide - Fort Lauderdale

Ft Lauderdale Fishing Report October - October has been good to us so far. Loads of mahi-mahi are being caught along with the occasional daytime Swordfish. King Mackerel, Wahoo and Blackfin Tuna are showing up in good numbers here in Fort Lauderdale, too. A few Sailfish have been spotted. more...
Capt. David Ide - Fort Lauderdale

Dolphin - Kingfish SLAM! - October 7th, 2008 Captain Paul and Darin set sail aboard the Frequent Flyer II this morning for a full day of fishing. They nailed the kings, reached their limit, then hit up a few wrecks and caught 4 amberjacks. Captain Paul spotted a log floati more...
Capt. David Ide - Fort Lauderdale

Barracuda's, Kingfish and Amberjack's offshore Ft Lauderdale - October 4th, 2008 Captain Paul and I loaded up our afternoon trip and headed out Shallow Harbor around 1:15. Right as we got out of Port Everglades, a few live bonitos were ours. Bonitos make great bait, so we dropped some bait hoping to get a more...
Capt. David Ide - Fort Lauderdale

Deep Sea Sportfishing Ft Lauderdale; Dolphin Sharks Wahoo! - September 27th, 2008 The Frequent Flyer II crew headed out Port Everglades bright and early this morning with a full day of deep sea fishing ahead of them. There was a local tournament going on and most Lauderdale charter boats were involved in i more...
Capt. David Ide - Fort Lauderdale

Ft Lauderdale Fishing Report September - Fishing off Fort Lauderdale - Wahoo, Mahi-Mahi, Sailfish & Tuna! September has been good to us here in Fort Lauderdale, besides all the hurricanes. TS Fay and Hurricane Ike just missed Fort Lauderdale, but we still felt winds up to 45 mph and rou more...
Capt. David Ide - Fort Lauderdale

Mahi - Mahi bite on FIRE + 95lb Amberjack - August 24th, 2008 First thing on the list this morning = cut fresh strips! Keith, the mate, cut tons of strips for the day ahead of us. Repeat anglers, George, his wife Deborah and their two kids, boarded the LP II to fish with Captain David more...
Capt. David Ide - Fort Lauderdale

Fort Lauderdale Fishing Report - LP II lands 5ft Barracuda! - We headed out Port Everglades with six people on a split charter this morning. We went straight to catching live bait and had the trolling gear ready to hit the reef. It was a pretty quick bite this morning. 20 minutes into the trip we landed a nice more...
Capt. David Ide - Fort Lauderdale

Fort Lauderdale Fishing Report - August - The Lady Pamela II crew has started August off just right, it's been a very exciting and productive summer here in Fort Lauderdale. We dove the lobster condo's in Bimini, went deep dropping for Yellow Eye Snapper, ran into schools of kingfish and more...
Capt. David Ide - Fort Lauderdale