Fishing Reports by Capt. David Ide

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

Fort Lauderdale July Fishing Report - Our South Florida summer has been pretty typical, weather wise -calm seas and afternoon thunderstorms! As for fishing, July has been a very active month for the Lady Pamela II crew here in Fort Lauderdale. We have caught several different types of fi more...
Capt. David Ide - Fort Lauderdale

Fort Lauderdale June Fishing Report - It's that time of year! Our South Florida summer has arrived with high 80's, 90's and scattered thunder storms. This weather has had us keeping one eye on the sky and the other on the rod tip. Trolling in 100 ft - 800 ft of water has been pretty prod more...
Capt. David Ide - Fort Lauderdale

Huge Hammerhead caught off Fort Lauderdale - Today we had 5 different people from all over the country looking to do some deep sea sportfishing off Fort Lauderdale. We headed out Shallow Harbor in search for bait. We tried the local bouy and a few anchored ships but the bait fish were scarce to more...
Capt. David Ide - Fort Lauderdale

65 lb Mahi-Mahi - May 30th, 2008 This afternoon we headed straight to Lauderdale Marina to buy live goggs. Conditions were perfect to fly the kites. Bryan Boyd and his boys from Virginia had been deep sea fishing off Fort Lauderdale before, but not like they did t more...
Capt. David Ide - Fort Lauderdale

Yellow Eye Snapper in Bimini, Bahamas - Reporting from Bimini, Bahamas! Memorial Day weekend was a blast. Wheather was decent, seas were a little choppy, but the fish were biting. We knew of a great yellow eye snapper spot, so we decided to go deep dropping in 830 ft of water. We fis more...
Capt. David Ide - Fort Lauderdale

Daytime + Nighttime Swordfishing - Daytime Swordfishing + Nighttime Swordfishing Captain Paul Paolucci and mate Mike Maldoon headed out Saturday in the afternoon looking to do some daytime swordfishing. Captain Paul said they were fishing in about 1600 feet when they got the fir more...
Capt. David Ide - Fort Lauderdale