Fishing Reports by Capt. David Ide

Fort Lauderdale, FL - Offshore - Swordfish and a Blue Marlin! What a week. Last week we were fighting a Hammerhead in 110’ of water and we left the kite up. I saw a boil on the short kite bait and the next thing we knew a Blue Marlin was jumping under the kite. Three hours later more...
Capt. David Ide - Fort Lauderdale

Fort Lauderdale, FL - Offshore - Blackfin Tunas & Kingfish The Pompano Rodeo was fun to fish and there was a lot of fish caught. I can’t tell you the number of King Mackerel we caught and threw back because they were under 15 lbs. (All the fish eligible had to be over 15 lbs. Bla more...
Capt. David Ide - Fort Lauderdale

Fort Lauderdale, FL - Offshore - It’s like summertime! The Dolphin (Mahi-mahi) are biting good! Quite a few decent size fish too. 20 to 45 lbs. We had 25 fish 2 days ago. Most were school size and a few were over 10 lbs. The fish were on a small weed line in 580 feet of water. more...
Capt. David Ide - Fort Lauderdale

Fort Lauderdale, FL - Offshore - Fishing is still great! Sharks, Sailfish, Amberjacks and Dolphin. (Mahi-mahi) They have been biting almost every day! The highlights from the week are: On 3/25/03 Troy Harshman caught a 40” Amberjack. A couple of days later, Paul Chestnut more...
Capt. David Ide - Fort Lauderdale

Fort Lauderdale, FL - Offshore - Sharks, Sharks and more Sharks! Threshers Sharks, Mako Sharks and Hammerheads are really biting this week. All big Sharks, from 300 to 500 lbs! They have been biting in 350’ of water. A little current is necessary. We have been using Bonita’s more...
Capt. David Ide - Fort Lauderdale

Fort Lauderdale, FL - Offshore - A little of everything! We have been fishing everyday and quite a few nights for the past two weeks. It’s been hard to get time to do this report! Every day has been good to great fishing. We had a great day last Saturday. (3/1/03) We had a more...
Capt. David Ide - Fort Lauderdale

Fort Lauderdale, FL - Offshore - Sailfish & Threshers Sailfish are still biting when the wind blows NW to the NE. The Sharks are moving through. Thresher Sharks are being caught in 300’ of water using Kingfish and Bonitos for bait. There was a big Mako shark caught that more...
Capt. David Ide - Fort Lauderdale

Fort Lauderdale, FL - Offshore - THE SAILFISH ARE HERE! The weather is great and the Sailfish showed up in great numbers. We fished everyday the past week. Most of the trips were all day trips, so we ran south to the Miami Sea Buoy. We would set up in 130’ of water and within more...
Capt. David Ide - Fort Lauderdale

Fort Lauderdale, FL - Offshore - Sailfish and Swordfish Well the cold weather is here and the Sailfish have shown up. Yesterday, we went to the area off the Steeple in North Fort Lauderdale. We set up in 135’ of water. The water was Blue and the current was going to the more...
Capt. David Ide - Fort Lauderdale

Fort Lauderdale, FL - Offshore - Where are the Sails??? Now that the cold fronts are coming through, the Sails have been scarce. We have managed to catch one here and one there, but not like we expect this time of year. Friday (12/13/02) we went out of Port Everglades. The wi more...
Capt. David Ide - Fort Lauderdale