Fishing Reports by Capt. Ryan McBride

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

Pompano Beach & Ft. Lauderdale - Report for past week 12/24-30 Sailfish remain strong on the reef. Up to 16 shots in a day have been had if you stay on the fish all day. Find the north current and find the fish. Small kingfish have been on the reef as well but most fish are on more...
Capt. Ryan McBride - Fort Lauderdale

Pompano Beach & Ft. Lauderdale - Report 12/10-12/16 The Wind is blowing today which means the fishing should be red hot. The wind has been blowing hard out of the southeast which usually means the sailfishing stinks, but it has been pretty good. We have been having 5 or so shot more...
Capt. Ryan McBride - Fort Lauderdale

Pompano Beach & Ft. Lauderdale - December 7, 2007 We got a small cold front a day or two ago and the fishing seems to be getting better. We have had a lot of warm days recently and the fishing has remained hit or miss, but it seems that the fishing has gotten a lot better with t more...
Capt. Ryan McBride - Fort Lauderdale

Pompano Beach & Ft. Lauderdale - Good fishing the past week. We have been sailfishing the past few weeks and fishing has remained good. We had a really good run a week ago and were catching up to 6 sails in a morning. Most of the fish are to the north and we have been fishing f more...
Capt. Ryan McBride - Fort Lauderdale