Fort Lauderdale Fishing Reports

Great Summer Action with Fishing Headquarters - The fishing in Fort Lauderdale has been awesome this summer. The kingfish action on the reefs is red hot. Big kingfish, 12-20 pounds have been biting, along with many of their smaller mackerel relatives. The bonitos have been around in fierce numbe more...
Capt. Paul Roydhouse - Fort Lauderdale

Fort Lauderdale June Fishing Report - It's that time of year! Our South Florida summer has arrived with high 80's, 90's and scattered thunder storms. This weather has had us keeping one eye on the sky and the other on the rod tip. Trolling in 100 ft - 800 ft of water has been pretty prod more...
Capt. David Ide - Fort Lauderdale

Giant Hammerheads and Sailfish Continue to Haunt South Florida - Here in Fort Lauderdale we are having an extended shark and sailfish season, with no complaints from the LOCAL KNOWLEDGE 954 522 4773. Giant hammerhead sharks are continuing their migration south eating our baits along the way. They find a kingfish more...
Capt. Mike Johnson - Fort Lauderdale

Bring your suntan lotion - Wow, its getting hot! Early morning temps are nice but by 9am that sun is already kissing your skin. You can count on the bite in the early am but typical summer patterns have the bite shut down by early afternoon. Thats not a rule but for the most p more...
Capt. Cary Hanna - Fort Lauderdale

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

Huge Hammerhead caught off Fort Lauderdale - Today we had 5 different people from all over the country looking to do some deep sea sportfishing off Fort Lauderdale. We headed out Shallow Harbor in search for bait. We tried the local bouy and a few anchored ships but the bait fish were scarce to more...
Capt. David Ide - 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

65 lb Mahi-Mahi - May 30th, 2008 This afternoon we headed straight to Lauderdale Marina to buy live goggs. Conditions were perfect to fly the kites. Bryan Boyd and his boys from Virginia had been deep sea fishing off Fort Lauderdale before, but not like they did t more...
Capt. David Ide - Fort Lauderdale

Double Header Sailfish all week offshore of Fort Lauderdale - Sailfish are here late this year and I'm not complaining one bit. The action on sailfish off Fort Lauderdale has been exceptional this year and what's best is that they are hanging around very late into the season. This is usually the time of yea more...
Capt. Paul Roydhouse - Fort Lauderdale

Yellow Eye Snapper in Bimini, Bahamas - Reporting from Bimini, Bahamas! Memorial Day weekend was a blast. Wheather was decent, seas were a little choppy, but the fish were biting. We knew of a great yellow eye snapper spot, so we decided to go deep dropping in 830 ft of water. We fis more...
Capt. David Ide - Fort Lauderdale