Fishing Reports by Capt. Ryan McBride

Hot, Cold, Hot fishing - Last week we had consistent fishing for blackfin tunas, kingfish and sailfish though start on friday it started to slow. By Saturday the fishing completely died off. Some fish remained but fishing was dead, with most boats fish struggling to catch more...
Capt. Ryan McBride - Fort Lauderdale

Hot weather/hot fishing - Hot weather has been the norm recently and fishing has been just as hot. Early in the day blackfin tunas have been biting and double to quad hookups have been then norm. Mixed in with the tunas are kingfish, most of the kingfish have been in the 15 more...
Capt. Ryan McBride - Fort Lauderdale

Great Fishing - The past couple weeks the fishing has been great. We are in our normal pattern and any day can be the best. The tunas have showed up in full force, with most trip resulting in 1-3 fish and up to 6. The good news is that mixed in with the normal 20 more...
Capt. Ryan McBride - Fort Lauderdale

Spring Time Fishing - Its definitely sping time fishing here in South Florida. The reefs have pretty much had every species of fish on them. Lots of kingfish from 10-30lbs have been covering the reefs from 100-150ft, dolphin have been hanging out in the blue water and h more...
Capt. Ryan McBride - Fort Lauderdale

Big Spring Dollies - Our spring dolphin run has begun with a lot of fish being caught in the 20-40lb. range and I have heard fish up to 57lbs. being caught. Bigger kings have shown up on the reefs with the bigger fish in the 25lb. range. As the water gets warmer the fi more...
Capt. Ryan McBride - Fort Lauderdale

Transition Time - Good fishing remains on the reef with more spring species showing up everyday and the winter sailfish still showing when conditions allow. Over the past week we have caught a handful of king fish from 10-20lbs., along smaller 5-15lb. blackfins, scho more...
Capt. Ryan McBride - Fort Lauderdale

Sailfishing Season - I haven't been reporting for a while but fishing has remained good. Sailfishing remains good when the right conditions are present, north tide the fish are there, south or no tide and the fishing slows. Yesterday we fished half day and went 2-5 on more...
Capt. Ryan McBride - Fort Lauderdale

Pompano Beach & Ft. Lauderdale - Report for 1/21-27 and Hogsbreath Key West Report The past week the fishing has been good. A good showing of kingfish, though not like in past years. There are just too many people that have found out about the winter kingfish bite. The grouper more...
Capt. Ryan McBride - Fort Lauderdale

Pompano Beach & Ft. Lauderdale - 1/7-1/13 I fishing the Jupiter Billfish tournament on Wednesday and Thrusday and the fishing was slow. Only 50 releases on day one and we had two. Next day same amount though we only caught 1 of the 2 fish we saw. We ended up around 17th out of more...
Capt. Ryan McBride - Fort Lauderdale

Pompano Beach & Ft. Lauderdale - Report week of 12/31 - 1/06 It got cold down here in Florida last week and that should mean great sailfishing. Well someone forgot to tell the sailfish because they really disapeared. On the last front we were getting at least 4 sails on a trip more...
Capt. Ryan McBride - Fort Lauderdale