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Summer Grinding In Fort Lauderdale
Capt. Vinnie Sacks
July 14, 2026
Fort Lauderdale - Saltwater Fishing Report
Hello everyone Capt. Vinnie here, first id like to say sorry for the delay in reports we have been super busy with a lot of sport fishing charters and we are grateful for everyone of our wonderful customers that have come out deep sea fishing with us over the last week. Now for the report.... Fishing this week in Fort Lauderdale has been good some days and some days it has been slow and a lot of the reason it has been slow is due to the seaweed, I know that sounds like an excuse but there are days that it is everywhere and it makes it very hard to troll, live bait, and bottom fish. The main problem is it gets on your line and your lures and that makes endless job for crew to keep baits clean in order to fish properly. But on a side note the days the seaweed is light and we can fish the way we know how we have been catching a good amount of fish. Trolling on the reef has been productive for species like kingfish, bonito, and a very few summer time sailfish if your lucky. Inside of 150 feet of water is where most of this action takes place. Trolling with surface baits and deep baits fished with planers has been the best way to get bites, a lot of our bites have been coning on our deep baits specially when the sun is up and the temps are hot, the cooler water below the surface seems to keep the fish more active. Just outside of the reef if the seaweed is light there has been blackfin tuna and also the predators that eat them being wahoo. Depths around 200 feet on out to 400 has been the most consistent for these type of fish, and in my personal opinion the afternoon specially late afternoon have been best for tunas. For the wahoo early morning seems to be the ticket but outgoing tide with a north current has been the perfect recipe for wahoo, pretty much everything has to line up right in order for them to be around and hungry. Other then that this week we had some really good bottom fishing. We had some great catches of snapper, mostly vermillion snapper and a few nice yellow eye snapper too. Most of the rock piles around 240 feet have been productive but some days you have to hit a few spots to put a catch together. August is a great month for snapper fishing out here in Fort Lauderdale so stay tuned in future reports for more snapper action. This week please be sure to check out some of the great photos of some recent catches that were caught while out on our deep sea fishing charters including a summer time sailfish and some really nice wahoos. Also give us a like and follow on social media platforms like facebook and instagram at Ybnormalsportfishing for daily fishing reports and content. On the horizon we have a busy week, I predict fishing to stay very consistent through the rest of July but i'm hopeful for light seaweed, but sometimes I don't think we can have it all. Either way we will continue to grind away as we do and try to show our guests a great experience out on the water. There still is a fair amount of available dates for the rest of July so if your thinking about heading down to South Florida and looking to get out fishing we would love to show you a great time on the water, look up YB Normal servicing Fort Lauderdale, Dania beach, and Hollywood beach for deep sea fishing charters!
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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