Fort Lauderdale Fishing Reports

Fort Lauderdale, FL - Offshore - The Weather and the Fishing are Great! On Monday January 14th, we had E-NE winds, the current was going North and the water was green. We heard the Sailfish bite was decent off the steeple. We started kite fishing in 130' of water and fishing more...
Capt. David Ide - Fort Lauderdale

Fort Lauderdale, Florida - Saltwater Fishing Report - Here we are into January and still fshing in shorts and shirts most days. I guess thats why I live here. We have had a very mild winter so far. What this means to the angler is who's in town today?. All the fish we wait for to migrate through our more...
Capt. Andy Roydhouse - Fort Lauderdale

Fort Lauderdale, FL - Offshore - The Sailfishing is only getting better. We have been catching Sailfiish every trip for the past week. Most fish have been in 120 to 180 feet of water and they have been biting live bait out of the kite. Most fish are from 25 lbs (6') to 75 lbs more...
Capt. David Ide - Fort Lauderdale

Fort Lauderdale, FL - Offshore - Happy Holiday! The weather was rough the past few days. We fished South and caught some nice Groupers. Red Grouper and Black Groupers, from 5 to 30 lbs. We also caught lots of Dolphin from 5 to 20 lbs. One day we were 4 for 4 on the Sails. more...
Capt. David Ide - Fort Lauderdale

Fort Lauderdale, Florida - Saltwater Fishing Report - As you can see by looking at the frequency of my reports, I haven't spent much time fishng the inshore waters lately. The mullet run has slowed down and the fish are a bit scattered. With few baits in the area it is taking a fair amount of searching more...
Capt. Andy Roydhouse - Fort Lauderdale

Fort Lauderdale, FL - Offshore - Fishings great, when the wind lets up! Once the winds let up, we caught Sails, Dolphin, Kingfish, Barracudas and even a Wahoo. All the fish were caught live baiting with Kites. The Dolphin were all gaffers and the Sails were from 10 lbs to 60 lb more...
Capt. David Ide - Fort Lauderdale

Fort Lauderdale, FL - Offshore - More Sails! Yesterday, we put out 3 small live bonitas and 10 minutes later we were fighting 3 sailfish! What a great day! We caught the triple header and went on to ccatch a Amberjack, a nice kingfish and a Barracuda. All this on our 1 to 5pm t more...
Capt. David Ide - Fort Lauderdale

Fort Lauderdale, FL - Offshore - The Sails are here! The Fort Lauderdale Billfish Tournament was this past weekend. Lots of sails were caught. We managed to catch a few sails and we won the Fun Fish division. That means we caught the moast Dolphin, (Mahi-mahi) Kingfish, Waho more...
Capt. David Ide - Fort Lauderdale

Fort Lauderdale, Florida - Saltwater Fishing Report - The northern winds try to bring us winter and the tropics are trying to bring us one last blow. The weather this last week has kept me off the water. As soon as it breaks the fall fishing should be GREAT. Before the weather started we did have some more...
Capt. Andy Roydhouse - Fort Lauderdale

Fort Lauderdale, FL - Offshore - When the wind blows, the fishing stories flow! The wind has been blowing for weeks. The good news is that the wind is blowing all the bait down the coast. Behind this bait, the Sailfish, big Kingfish, Tarpon, Sharks and many more species are a more...
Capt. David Ide - Fort Lauderdale