Good Action Snapper Fishing on our Drift Fishing Trips
Capt. Paul Roydhouse
March 29, 2018
Fort Lauderdale - Saltwater Fishing Report
Snapper fishing is improving every day here in Fort Lauderdale. This week, we've been doing very well on our night anchor trips. They anchor and chum the waters for yellowtail, mangrove, mutton and lane snappers. The chum is the secret to anchor fishing. If you chum, they will come. The chum draws the fish in from a long ways away. It's kind of like when someone in your neighborhood is cooking a barbecue and you can smell it from a long ways off. If you're a hungry fish, you will start swimming towards that scent, which would bring you to right under our boat. This technique works very well at night when the snappers are a bit more brave (nocturnal feeders) and they are willing to venture out in search of food.
Daytime snapper fishing has been good too. Lots of nice muttons are biting on our drift fishing trips, about 50% of them keepers and the other 50% throwbacks. Muttons have to be quite large now in order to keep. Mangroves are biting better and better these past few nights too. Squid and ballyhoo are the bait of choice for mangroves and April is generally a damn fine month to go after them. Look for awesome yellowtailing to begin towards the end of April and early May.
Groupers are biting too but they are out of season so we have to throw them back. We usually catch a lot of grunts, porgies, triggers and jacks on our drift fishing trips as well. The fishing is good this season and it just keeps getting better and better for the next few months. This is the season where the drift fishing trips shines. Good luck out there. Sea ya on the water.
Capt. Andy Roydhouse
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