Fishing Reports by Capt. David Ide

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, 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, 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

Fort Lauderdale, FL - Offshore - Fishing in only getting better! The day before the Rains last week, we found the Dolphin. We had our limit (60) and the fish were all from 4 lbs to 30 lbs. What a day. We even had a few Kings and a couple of Amberjacks! The Kings really bit go more...
Capt. David Ide - Fort Lauderdale

Fort Lauderdale, FL - Offshore - Fishing is Great & Business is slow! Hardly anybody is out there and the fish are biting! Lots of Kings and Bonitas on the troll on the reef. One 50 lb King was caught on live bait. A few others over 20 lbs were caught on live bait. Yesterday more...
Capt. David Ide - Fort Lauderdale

Fort Lauderdale, FL - Offshore - Mixed bag. The bait is starting to move down the beach. We had scools of pilchards moving South out in 300' of water. Bonita's and kings are still on the reef. We did catch a few kings over 20 lbs live baiting. We also saw a cople of Wahoos th more...
Capt. David Ide - Fort Lauderdale

Fort Lauderdale, FL - Offshore - Great Fishing and Great Weather! Lots & lots of Bonitas! Quite a few kings are mixed in with them. We had quite a few Kings this week that were over 20lbs that we caught on live bait. A few big cudas are alos mixed in with the kings and Bonit more...
Capt. David Ide - Fort Lauderdale