Fishing Reports by Capt. Paul Roydhouse

Drift Fishing for Cobia in Ft Lauderdale - The cobia bite is going off on the Ft Lauderdale drift fishing boats. A friend of mine in Jacksonville, Florida called me last week and said get ready for some great cobia fishing… they're headed down the coast. We're catching them almost every tri more...
Capt. Paul Roydhouse - Fort Lauderdale

Fort Lauderdale Sailfish Bite - The sailfish bite is going off this week in Fort Lauderdale. 200-300ft of water, wherever the blue-green water color change is that day, is the hot area for the bite. A lot of these sailfish are mutliple hookups too, pods of 3-4 fish. May is usuall more...
Capt. Paul Roydhouse - Fort Lauderdale

Tuna Fishing Hot in Fort Lauderdale - There is a great tuna bite going on in Fort Lauderdale this week. This morning's Catch My Drift fishing trip landed 2 really nice tunas, some kingfish and a couple bonitos. The blackfin tuna are averaging 25-35 pounds, biting good in 100-150ft of w more...
Capt. Paul Roydhouse - Fort Lauderdale

Grouper season has begun! - Great fishing today on our sportfishing charter. We set out this morning on a 4 hour private sportfishing charter. Denny, our customer, told us that he wanted to catch dinner and then go after something big. Well, grouper season just opened up on M more...
Capt. Paul Roydhouse - Fort Lauderdale

Fort Lauderdale Tarpon Fishing - There are some big tarpon beginning to show up in Fort Lauderdale this month. The tarpon show up in the Fort Lauderdale intracoastal waterways very thick over the summer months, and they are beginning to show up now. Yesterday, we had an intracoast more...
Capt. Paul Roydhouse - Fort Lauderdale

Hot Snapper Fishing Bite in Fort Lauderdale - Night snapper fishing getting hot. Yellowtails and mangrove snappers are really starting to bite great on the 2nd and 3rd reefs off Fort Lauderdale. Not just in one or two spots, all the spots seem to be holding more fish these days. Yellowtails more...
Capt. Paul Roydhouse - Fort Lauderdale

Killer Sailfish Bite in Fort Lauderdale - The sailfish are swarming on the reef. The strong northeast winds really have them stirred up. We were kite fishing on the Out of the Blue today and caught 4 sailfish and missed 2 others. All the fish ate goggle eyes and we caught a nice dolphin more...
Capt. Paul Roydhouse - Fort Lauderdale

Dolphin Biting on the Reef Drift Fishing - The fishing on the Fort Lauderdale reefs is excellent this week. The dolphin are coming in on the reefs and biting pretty good. We've caught dolphin on almost every trip this week. Mostly schoolie size dolphin are biting, but there are a few big more...
Capt. Paul Roydhouse - Fort Lauderdale

Fort Lauderdale Offshore and Reef Report - The fishing off Fort Lauderdale this month has been phenomenal. It's April and we're in the middle of the Spring fishing season and in South Florida that means there are some big game fish offshore. 7-9 miles offshore, there has been a beautiful more...
Capt. Paul Roydhouse - Fort Lauderdale

Holiday Fishing in Fort Lauderdale - The holiday fishing season is here in Fort Lauderdale once again. The weather has been kind to us this year in South Florida. We had back-to-back-to-back cold fronts this month which has gotten the sailfish in a feeding frenzy. Sailfishing has b more...
Capt. Paul Roydhouse - Fort Lauderdale