Fort Lauderdale Fishing Charters
Capt. Paul Roydhouse
June 3, 2018
Fort Lauderdale - Saltwater Fishing Report
Good action on our Fort Lauderdale fishing charters this week. We're catching a little bit of everything out there this week. The tunas are probably biting the best this week. Large and small blackfin tunas are biting good on the reef, trolling in 100-200ft of water. Where the blackfins are, the bonitos and kingfish are too. They all eat the same stuff, so they hunt the same waters as each other. Tunas are biting small, streamline lures either on the deep planer rods or the outrigger baits that are trolled skipping along the surface. Blackfin tunas don't get to be as large as yellowfins, but they do get pretty big. We've caught several tunas over 30 pounds this week.
Mahi mahi are a little more sporadic and tougher to find. You have to go offshore to find them and it usually requires a pretty good investment in time to get out there and look for them. When (or if) you do find them, you can fill your whole box in a few minutes. We went trolling offshore for dolphin the other day and didn't see our first fish for over 5 hours. Then we find a board floating in the water, pulled up alongside it and bailed dolphin on light tackle spinners. We caught about 20 dolphin in about as many minutes. Dolphin are mostly schoolie sized fish, 2-4 pounds, but sometimes a big one jumps on the line.
Trolling is fun but its not the action to be had offshore. Deep dropping in 200-300ft of water is good for catching snappers and groupers. There have been some monster black groupers biting this week. We're catching them dropping live baits, usually blue runners or bonitos, just up-current of the shipwreck we're trying to fish. Snappers are biting too, using chicken rigs with multiple hooks on them baited with squid. If you hit them just right, you can get a snapper on every hook on your rig. Sometimes that equates to 6-8 snappers per drop. It's a fast paced fishing technique that can put some color and meat in your box without too high an investment in time.
Good fishing this week on our Fort Lauderdale fishing charters. A little bit of everything is biting and you never know what you might catch. Good luck to everyone fishing this week. Tight lines and good fishing. I'll sea ya on the water.
Capt. Andy Roydhouse
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