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Full Moon Deep Sea Fishing
Capt. Vinnie Sacks
August 2, 2026
Fort Lauderdale - Saltwater Fishing Report
Hey there Capt. Vinnie here, its been a solid week of deep sea fishing here in Fort Lauderdale and we have the pictures and report to prove it!. This week just like the title says full moon deep sea fishing, the moon and moon phase plays a very big part of what is biting out there. The moon being full is best for wahoo usually a few days before and a few days after. Which we did get lucky enough to get a very nice one this week "pictured". Trolling this week hasn't been to hot, most days has been slow unless you are catching bonito, the moon has made a very strong current out there and a lot of fish usually don't like to feed in that type of tide. But the one thing that was hot this week was snapper fishing. We had some great trips this week anchor fishing on shallow reefs. Summer time snapper fishing is great around the moons because thats when the snapper are spawning specifically mangrove snapper. Now mangroves are more of night time feeders but we happen to anchor up on and old spot I used to fish in the night time for them around this time of year and the fish were there. We ended up limiting out very quickly, and all this is due to the moon phase right now. When we fished other spots while on anchor we had a great bite of yellowtail snapper as well as some really good kingfish action. The crazy part is all this has been taking place very shallow around 30 feet of water, just because you are shallow doesn't mean there are not big fish, its all timing. Knowing where to be at what time. Majority of the mangrove snappers we caught where around 3-4lbs with a few pushing 5lbs, and for the yellowtail snapper around 2lbs was the average. Bottom fishing has been the name of the game for the last week or so but as we get on the back side of the moon i'm pretty sure there will be some wahoo to catch, as well as blackfin tunas too. As for a mahi report this week they seem to getting to be steady but they have been way out there close to 20 miles so your going to need a full day trip in order to reach them. Still looking for birds is going to be a key sign that life is in the area, as well as weed patches and anything floating too. We are getting closer and closer to the time when there going to be steady in the next few weeks I will hopefully have a nice mahi report. This week please be sure to take a minute and check out some of the great photos of some recent catches that we have caught this week while out on our deep sea fishing charters, and remember to give us a like and follow on social media platforms like Facebook and Instagram at Ybnormalsportfishing for daily fishing content. For the month of August we have a good amount of availability for deep sea fishing trips and this month usually yields great fishing and great weather, so if your heading down to Fort Lauderdale looking to get out fishing check out Yb Normal servicing Fort Lauderdale/ Dania beach/ and Hollywood beach.
more later...
Capt.Vinnie (954)-559-4700
Fort Lauderdale Fishing Forecast:
winds and seas calm
Target Species:
tuna dolphin wahoo sailfish mahi snapper grouper swordfish
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