Fishing Reports by Capt. David Ide

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

Fort Lauderdale, FL - Offshore - November 2005 We will be back fishing on Thanksgiving. We apologize for the lack of reports, but there is not much fishing to discuss while in the boat yard. The Lady Pamela II is looking great and ready to get out fishing. A good col more...
Capt. David Ide - Fort Lauderdale

Fort Lauderdale, FL - Offshore - Boat yard blues We are presently in the boat yard, painting, cleaning and sharpening a few hooks. We should be out of here in a couple of weeks. This doesn’t mean that we still don’t go fishing. The Swordfish bite has been outstanding this wee more...
Capt. David Ide - Fort Lauderdale

Fort Lauderdale, FL - Offshore - Swordfish & Hurricanes A commercial fisherman boated a 640 lb. Swordfish last week. Another Swordfish of 508 lbs. was reported caught by a private boat. We caught a 300 lb. and a 120 lb Swordfish two weeks ago. The Swordfishing is still great a more...
Capt. David Ide - Fort Lauderdale

Fort Lauderdale, FL - Offshore - Summertime fishing The weather has been very calm the past few weeks and the hurricanes have passed us by. The Bonitos have shown up in force. Trolling spoons and strips on a planer is the best way to catch these great fighting fish. King more...
Capt. David Ide - Fort Lauderdale

Fort Lauderdale, FL - Offshore - Swordfish and Mahi-mahi! We did not get to fish much this month. We had a 30 day charter that did not consist of any fishing. So I apologize for the lack of reports this past month We did sneak out for a few nights of Swordfishing. We caught more...
Capt. David Ide - Fort Lauderdale