Fort Lauderdale, FL - Offshore
Capt. David Ide
July 19, 2004
Fort Lauderdale - Saltwater Fishing Report
Bonitos, Scattered Mahi-mahi and King Mackerel.
The waters have really heated up without any rain for the past two weeks. Fishing has been decent one day and slow the next day.
It did rain this weekend which we hope will cool the waters down.
The Swordfish have even slowed down. Two weeks ago the Swordfish were biting great and this week there night when nobody got a bite out of 15 boats. Two nights ago there were a few caught again. We have been out the past three nights with each night averaging two bites a night! The fish have been around 60 to 100 lbs. One boat fought one for 4 hours and the fish weighed 273 lbs.
The Bonitos and King Mackerel are on the reef. But then even these fish eat good one day and disappear the next day.
We did catch some decent sized Amberjacks on the wrecks and we even caught two Warsaw Groupers about 90 lbs. each.
There has been some Mahi-mahi (Dolphin fish) under the birds offshore. Most of the fish are too small to keep (new 20” short length minimum). They are still a lot of fun to catch on light tackle. We did catch 6 gaffers last Wednesday and 6 other keepers too that day.
The waters have been calm and we hope to see the fish starting to bite again now that it rained. So let’s go fishing!
Catch-em-up,
Captain Kunta
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