Fishing Reports by Capt. David Ide

February - Billfish action! - The sailfish are definitely out and about this week. A cold front passed through Tuesday night with temperatures reaching 59 degrees as our high, and the outcome was unbelievable. Several charter fleets in town were seeing double even triple header s more...
Capt. David Ide - Fort Lauderdale

Fort Lauderdale, FL - Offshore - T.G.I.F. Thank God It's February! What a busy month it's been so far, and we're only two weeks into it. This weather has been a bit weird to all of us, even leaving the fish confused. Action that normally takes place around the Holidays is happen more...
Capt. David Ide - Fort Lauderdale

Fort Lauderdale, FL - Offshore - Starting off the New Year! January 19, 2008 John, Matt and Kevin from Upstate New York joined us for some deep sea fishing in Fort Lauderdale today. We started off the morning, bright and early, trolling for some kings. We got a few, real nice s more...
Capt. David Ide - Fort Lauderdale

Fort Lauderdale, FL - Offshore - The Migrating Fish! Migrating Fish! Winter is here! Dolphin, wahoo and sailfish are out there for the daring. The last two weeks in December were red hot. The winds and cold fronts pushed through from the north and made the fish head south. With more...
Capt. David Ide - Fort Lauderdale

Fort Lauderdale, FL - Offshore - Red Hot Sailfish Action OCTOBER In case you missed us, we spent the month of October in the boat yard. We re-powered with Cummins 370 diesels. We did some interior and exterior paintwork, new modern helm and controls. General maintenance and s more...
Capt. David Ide - Fort Lauderdale

Fort Lauderdale, FL - Offshore - September is a good month for kingfish inshore. We have caught several sailfish, one on a bottom rig with live bait in 220' of water. The mullet run is heading south and the fishing is only getting better. Tight lines, Capt. David Ide more...
Capt. David Ide - Fort Lauderdale

Fort Lauderdale, FL - Offshore - Wahoo, Kingfish & Bonitos! The Kings and Bonitos are still thick on the reefs. We have been catching our limit every trip, trolling planers with spoons and strips in 80 to 200’ of water. There have been a lot of Wahoo biting in with the Kings a more...
Capt. David Ide - Fort Lauderdale

Fort Lauderdale, FL - Offshore - It is nice to have a few days off! Captain David here to report that the fishing in the Bahamas is as good as ever. After all these days of fishing I decided to join the folks,along with Denis Casper and Capt. Dudley Smart in Bimini for a few da more...
Capt. David Ide - Fort Lauderdale

Fort Lauderdale, FL - Offshore - Fishing is good, and the weather has co-operated The fishing has been good. Lots of Bonitos, King Mackerel are all over the reef. Just trolling a 3 ½ drone spoon behind the planer is working great. There were a few Mahi-mahi (Dolphin fish) arou more...
Capt. David Ide - Fort Lauderdale

Fort Lauderdale, FL - Offshore - The fishing has been terrific We have had some great weather these past weeks. The seas have been calm and the fishing is great. We have been catching a lot of good size kingfish, along with bonitos and a few dolphin. The sharks have been biti more...
Capt. David Ide - Fort Lauderdale