Fishing Reports by Capt. David Ide

Summer Fishing Fort Lauderdale - August 22, 2015 The past few weeks Lady Pamela sportfishing has seen some phenomenal fishing. This has been the best August for mahi-mahi fishing that I can remember over the last 15 years. The fish have been gaffer size, ranging from 10-40 lbs. M more...
Capt. David Ide - Fort Lauderdale

Fort Lauderdale Fishing Charters - July 27-28, 2015 Lady Pamela sportfishing had a great fishing run on July 27th landing 15 bonitos, a kingfish, and a blackfin tuna this morning while trolling between 100 and 300 feet of water off Ft. Lauderdale. We also got a big bite and a good more...
Capt. David Ide - Fort Lauderdale

Mahi Mahi Fishing off Fort Lauderdale - July 14, 2015 There was mahi-mahi mayhem offshore Ft. Lauderdale today as the Lady Pamela sportfishing boats were busy reeling in everything from 25 lb gaffers to little schoolies. Captain JJ ventured offshore into about 800 feet of water where bi more...
Capt. David Ide - Fort Lauderdale

Summer Time Fishing In June - June 25, 2015 The past couple days the Florida Current (that part of the Gulf Stream system that flows generally from the Gulf of Mexico along the Florida east coast to the Atlantic Ocean) has been flowing very close inshore. As a result, we caugh more...
Capt. David Ide - Fort Lauderdale

Fort Lauderdale Dolphin - Shark Fishing - June 9, 2015 The deep-sea fishing here off Fort Lauderdale has heated up with the weather this week. Yesterday (the 8th) JJ and I had a morning trip on the Lady Pamela II and we got into a bunch of vermilion snappers in 350 feet of water. These fi more...
Capt. David Ide - Fort Lauderdale

Fort Lauderdale Fishing charters - May 22, 2015 The last few days we have had some extremely excellent fishing on the troll. The Lady Pamela II boats have been working the outer reef from 90 to about 150 feet of water and hooking up blackfin tunas and bonitos. We have also seen som more...
Capt. David Ide - Fort Lauderdale

Fort Lauderdale Fishing charters - April 21, 2015 Shannon and her friend were out on the Lady Pamela II this week and the sharks were biting. The pair of anglers caught a big dusky shark and we also got a big hammerhead that day. On the 19th we caught a 35 pound mahi-mahi and anoth more...
Capt. David Ide - Fort Lauderdale

Daytime Swordfishing Fort Lauderdale - April 12, 2015 Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday of this week I was aboard the Lady Pamela II with my buddy Chip and his friend Emilio for daytime swordfishing. We were out about 10 hours a day and had a few sword bites on Wednesday and Thursday but more...
Capt. David Ide - Fort Lauderdale

NFL Superstar Mike Vick - March 22, 2015 One of the interesting things about the charter fishing business is that you never know who might show up for some angling excitement. This afternoon, NFL quarterback Michael Vick showed up and decided he wanted to go out on the Lad more...
Capt. David Ide - Fort Lauderdale

Fort Lauderdale Shark Fishing - The Lady Pamela II has been slaying the kingfish the last couple days on the troll. We have been fishing on the edge, and just outside of, the third reef off both Hollywood and Ft Lauderdale. The fish are all over seawitch feathers tipped with bonito more...
Capt. David Ide - Fort Lauderdale