Fishing Reports by Capt. David Ide

Fort Lauderdale, FL - Offshore - Fishing is good, but charters are scarce. When we do get out, 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 (Dolph more...
Capt. David Ide - Fort Lauderdale

Fort Lauderdale, FL - Offshore - July 2006 Mixed bag of fish and weather The fishing the past two weeks has been decent one day and slow the next day. The Bonitos have moved in along with the King mackerels that were already here. They bite really good one day and the next more...
Capt. David Ide - Fort Lauderdale

Fort Lauderdale, FL - Offshore - End of June 2006 report The Mahi-mahi fishing was still really good for the month. However, the past few days they have been pretty scarce. There has been a little bit of wind blowing and that should have brought the fish in closer to the reef. more...
Capt. David Ide - Fort Lauderdale

Fort Lauderdale, FL - Offshore - The Mahi-Mahi are still biting. As our last report, we thought this was the best Mahi-mahi (Dolphin fish) season that we had seen in quite a few years. Well they keep on coming. Fish over 50 pounds are still being reported every other day. We ha more...
Capt. David Ide - Fort Lauderdale

Fort Lauderdale, FL - Offshore - May Mahi-Mahi The Winds has blown in the Mahi-mahi. We have been catching plenty of schoolie Mahi and fish to over 30 lbs. It has been one of the better few weeks of Mahi fishing that we have seen in a few years. We have been catching some nice more...
Capt. David Ide - Fort Lauderdale

Fort Lauderdale, FL - Offshore - April fishing is great so far. The past few weeks have been very busy. I haven’t even had time to do a report. Thanks to all of our past and present clients we have been fishing everyday and quite a few nights. The day time fishing has been p more...
Capt. David Ide - Fort Lauderdale

Fort Lauderdale, FL - Offshore - March 2006 Fishing has still been pretty good, especially for February. Over the years February can be real slow. The Fort Lauderdale Billfish Tournament was Feb15th to the 19th. There were quite a few Sailfish caught during the tournament. more...
Capt. David Ide - Fort Lauderdale

Fort Lauderdale, FL - Offshore - January Sailfish and Sharks The fishing was really good for the past couple of weeks. The bait has moved back in and it has brought the Sharks along with the Sailfish. We had a few days this week with 2 Sailfish one trip and then 4 Sailfish the more...
Capt. David Ide - Fort Lauderdale

Fort Lauderdale, FL - Offshore - Jan 2006 Well the people came to go fishing Christmas week and the fishing was red hot just before Christmas. We were booked every trip for 7 days starting after Christmas and we were really looking forward to catching lots of fish. Well sometim more...
Capt. David Ide - Fort Lauderdale

Fort Lauderdale, FL - Offshore - December fishing has never been SO GOOD! The Sailfish are everywhere. On our first day back fishing out of the boat yard, we caught and released 7 Sailfish and lost 4 others. We also caught some Mahi-mahi (Dolphin fish) and a Wahoo. This week t more...
Capt. David Ide - Fort Lauderdale