Fishing Reports by Capt. Paul Roydhouse

Lots of Big, Interesting Fish Biting on Our Fishing Trips - It's a great month to fish the waters of Fort Lauderdale. Just about everything we can catch here in south Florida is biting this month. The cooler temperatures are getting the fish that don't bite that often, to get frisky and more aggressive. more...
Capt. Paul Roydhouse - Fort Lauderdale

Some Giant Fish Are Biting in Fort Lauderdale - This full moon we had this past week got some really big fish biting. Some huge kingfish hit the dock this week. In fact, one of the biggest was a true monster, capping the scales at 65 pounds. The fish ate a live goggle eye fished out of the kite more...
Capt. Paul Roydhouse - Fort Lauderdale

Big Groupers Biting on our Deep Dropping Charters - Nice catches this week deep dropping in Fort Lauderdale around the many shipwrecks that lie at the bottom of the ocean. For many years, Fort Lauderdale had a huge artificial reef program where we would take old, decommissioned boats out and sink t more...
Capt. Paul Roydhouse - Fort Lauderdale

Snappers Are Biting At Night in Ft Lauderdale - The yellowtail snapper bite is hot this week on our Fort Lauderdale night fishing trips. October is always one of our best months of the year for snapper fishing. While they bite pretty good during the day trip, it's night where they really snap. more...
Capt. Paul Roydhouse - Fort Lauderdale

Great Dolphin Bite This Week Fishing in Fort Lauderdale - The dolphin showed up this week in good numbers. Some big mahi are biting along the weedline that has formed about 6 miles offshore. This is a litte bit early for mahi-mahi (they usually show up really good in November), but it sure is a welcome more...
Capt. Paul Roydhouse - Fort Lauderdale

Giant Cubera Snapper Catch On Our Ft Lauderdale Fishing Charter - This time of year anything can happen. You can catch some of the biggest fish of the year for south Florida in September and October. What we lack in numbers of fish we make up for in spades with the sheer size of the some of the fish we catch. more...
Capt. Paul Roydhouse - Fort Lauderdale

Lots of Bottom Fish On Our Ft Lauderdale Fishing Trips - Good action on our deep sea drift fishing trips this week. Lots of snappers, groupers, porgies, jacks, grunts, triggerfish and more are being caught. With so few of boats going out there and fishing, the fish are really stacked up and biting grea more...
Capt. Paul Roydhouse - Fort Lauderdale

Great Overnight Bottom Fishing Trip For Snapper - Capt Rod went out for an overnight, long range trip a couple nights ago and just returned. There was a helluva snapper bite going on. Most of the fish were caught in the 180-250ft range, deeper water than we normally fish for snappers. Many of more...
Capt. Paul Roydhouse - Fort Lauderdale

Huge Yellowfin Tuna Caught on a Deep Sea Fishing Charter - I took the boys from Fishing Headquarters on a fishing vacation trip. Obviously this fish was not caught fishing in Fort Lauderdale. But the Fort Lauderdale boys did the fishing charter and the catching. Yellowfin are very rare in south Florida. more...
Capt. Paul Roydhouse - Fort Lauderdale

Good Action on our Drift Fishing Trips This Week - Nice mixed bag of snappers, kingfish and various bottom fish are biting great this month on our drift fishing trips. Yellowtail snappers are snapping on these trips this month. The yellowtails congregate in 40-80ft of water this month and are eas more...
Capt. Paul Roydhouse - Fort Lauderdale