Fishing Reports by Capt. David Ide

Fort Lauderdale, FL - Offshore - Nice sized Swordfish! The Swordfishing continues to be red hot! When the weather is decent, we’ve been getting out Swordfishing and we have caught some real decent fish! Feb 1st we ventured out with Fred Donbrow. He wanted to fish all stand-up g more...
Capt. David Ide - Fort Lauderdale

Fort Lauderdale, FL - Offshore - Can’t ask for more! (Well, maybe a little more current) The weather has been great, the fish are biting and we’ve been fishing everyday! Kite fishing with live goggle eyes have been producing Sailfish. Anywhere from 1 to 5 a trip! The fish hav more...
Capt. David Ide - Fort Lauderdale

Fort Lauderdale, FL - Offshore - The winds are blowing, so the fishing is good! The winds have been strong out of the East for the past two weeks. The seas have been a bit rough, but when we have been able to fish, the fish are there! The Sailfish are really strong right more...
Capt. David Ide - Fort Lauderdale

Fort Lauderdale, FL - Offshore - November 9, 2004 The fishing is Great! This season is off to a great start. NE winds have pushed the Sailfish, Mahi-mahi, Wahoo and Sharks all within 2 miles of the beach! The bait continues to get pushed down the beach with lots of differe more...
Capt. David Ide - Fort Lauderdale

Fort Lauderdale, FL - Offshore - The storms have passed and were still here catching fish! Usually after a storm, the fishing gets good and this time it’s true. We have caught our limit of King Mackerel, some nice sized Mahi-mahi and Barracudas, trolling the reefs and out to 600 more...
Capt. David Ide - Fort Lauderdale

Fort Lauderdale, FL - Offshore - Hurricanes! Due to the weather, we have not been out fishing for 3 weeks. We do expect the Mahi-mahi (Dolphin fish) to come through around the floating debris. I did see a lot of bait (mullet) coming down the beach. This means that the Tarp more...
Capt. David Ide - Fort Lauderdale

Fort Lauderdale, FL - Offshore - Fishing is good and the seas are calm! For the past two weeks the seas have been calm 12 out of 14 days. The only two days it got rough were from Hurricane Charley. We hope to benefit from the storm as debris should be floating and maybe some nic more...
Capt. David Ide - Fort Lauderdale

Fort Lauderdale, FL - Offshore - Bonitos, Scattered Mahi-mahi and King Mackerel. The waters have really heated up without any rain for the past two weeks. Fishing has been decent one day and slow the next day. It did rain this weekend which we hope will cool the waters do more...
Capt. David Ide - Fort Lauderdale

Fort Lauderdale, FL - Offshore - Good Fishing & Calm Waters! The seas have been very calm and a lot of Mahi-mahi (Dolphin fish) have been moving through. We have been catching a few decent sized fish along with lots of schoolie sized fish. We have been finding the fish under more...
Capt. David Ide - Fort Lauderdale

Fort Lauderdale, FL - Offshore - The winds have calmed and the Swordfish are biting! We fished the past 5 out of six nights. We averaged 2 fish per night and 3 bites per night. The biggest fish was 247 lbs and we released fish up to 100 lbs. Most of the fish ate squid baits do more...
Capt. David Ide - Fort Lauderdale