Generally Great Fishing This Month In Fort Lauderdale
Capt. Paul Roydhouse
December 20, 2020
Fort Lauderdale - Saltwater Fishing Report
Fishing is great this month. Groupers are biting off the scale with some of the biggest black groupers I've ever seen hitting the dock daily. Black groupers are one of the biggest grouper species we catch here in Fort Lauderdale on our fishing trips and they always bite excellently in December. This year is no exception. But the size of the groupers this year has been outstanding. Some really, really big ones are being caught and that is great to see.
Plenty of smaller groupers are biting too, with lots of reds, gags, snowys and more being mixed in with our catches each day. Our drift fishing boat, the Catch My Drift, is pulling in plenty of red groupers. Many of them are not keeper sized, but we always get a handful of keepers on most trips. The prized fish on the drift boat isn't grouper though... it is mutton snapper.
Mutton snappers are the biggest of the snapper species we catch on a regular basis here in south Florida. They get up to 20 pounds and they are an awesome fish to catch on light tackle. We catch them up and down the reefs, ledges and around the multitude of shipwrecks we have sunken off our coast. They also bite extremely good in December and January. I love seeing so many muttons snappers biting this year.
Big game fish abound in the winter months. Sailfish, marlin, amberjacks, barracuda and tarpon all show up in spectacular numbers this season. There is a huge array of available species that can be caught in south Florida when the weather gets cool. Now is the time to get out there and catch them. Tight lines everyone. I'll sea ya on the water.
Capt. Andy Roydhouse
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