Southeast Region

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 intracoastal charter and caught this 75 pound tarpon. We had a few other nice tarpon hit the baits, but pulled the hooks on them. We did catch 2 very nice snooks as ...full report

Fort Lauderdale Fishing Report April 23, 2012 This year has been a weird weather year but the fishing has continued to be red hot. We just had a rare late-April cold front move through Fort Lauderdale and the sailfish started to bite again. We caught four nice fish the day before and three more today. I heard of some boats landing six or more fish, depending on how long they stayed out. That’s ...full report

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 May 1, so we knew we could easily catch some nice groupers around the wrecks. The groupers have been completely unharrassed by us fishermen for over 5 months. ...full report

February 6, 2012 Today was my first day back from the Safari Club International's hunting and fishing convention in Las Vegas. Lady Pamela II Sportfishing had a booth at the convention, so it was a busy week promoting the outstanding angling we have right here in Ft. Lauderdale. I was excited get back out on the water with Jeremy and his friends from Arizona, as they joined us for an all ...full report

February 10 , 2012 Today, one of our repeat clients and good friend David, brought a group of friends fishing on the Lady Pamela IV. Captain Darin and mate Rusty started the day trolling the reef trying to get some action for everybody on the boat. In no time they reeled in a nice wahoo. David was pretty happy as it is always nice when the first fish is dinner. They kept trolling and caught a few ...full report

Feburary 23, 2012 Today was a great day as I got to fish with my best friend Matt, who also worked as my mate for the day. We were booked for an all day swordfishing trip with Wayne and Richard, and we were looking forward to a cool day out on the water. In prepping for the trip, I discussed the Lady Pamela II boat options with the guys, recommending our 37 foot center console open fishermen. This ...full report

March 30, 2012 Today, Darin and I were joined by Marc and his family from Ohio, for a day of fishing here in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. We started the first few hours of the trip trolling for kingfish and tuna on the reef, working fresh ballyhoo and bonito strips from 80 to 350 feet of water. We had a few bites on the planers in 120 feet of water, but no good hookups. We finally caught one of ...full report

April 9, 2012 Today Mike and I had two half day charters on the Lady Pamela IV. On the morning charter we had retired NFL quarterback Elvis Grbac and his family out fishing for a four hour trip. We caught a few live baits then went to a shipwreck about 5 miles north of Port Everglades inlet. We baited the rods and on the first drop on the shipwreck we hooked a massive fish. Elvis's son had a ...full report

The fishing in Fort Lauderdale these days is amazing. Mahi-mahi dolphin are all over the reef and edge of the gulfstream. There is a 2 week period in April when the dolphin bite gets insane and they are coming right in on the reef to feed and spawn. This is happening now, right off the Fort Lauderdale coast. Mostly dolphin have been the catch, but we are also catching some blackfin tuna, a couple ...full report

January 18, 2012 Newly wed’s Tony and his wife came all the way from Texas to come fishing on the 7am-1 pm charter. We started the morning out catching lots of live tinker mackerels around a freighteranchored off shore of Ft. Lauderdale. By the way, catching tinkers like we have been doing the last few days is unusual. There was no wind to fly the kites so after catching all the bait we needed ...full report

January 14,2012 Today, the Hyatt family from Pennsylvania joined us for an afternoon of fishing. They had just flown in this morning and said it was 20 degrees where they just came from and were loving the 65 degrees here in Ft. Lauderdale. The Hyatts had never been deep sea fishing before so they decided they would try their luck deep sea fishing on the Lady Pamela II. We left the dock around ...full report

January 7, 2012 The Lady Pamela II Sportfishing Team has kicked off the 2012 South Florida billfish tournament season with a first place in the inaugural Coconut Grove “No Rule's Sailfish Tournament”. My crew and I had made a last minute decision to fish this tournament on Thursday, so we spent all day Friday, the day before the tournament, fishing for bait. We loaded the bait wells with ...full report

January 5, 2011 I usually run the Lady Pamela IV, operating the boat from the flybridge, but today, I was aboard the Lady Pamela I and worked the cockpit, while Keith ran the boat. We fished with Glenda and her husband on a six-hour, 10am4pm charter, and we needed to catch Glenda a fish. We picked a few live baits up at the local Lauderdale Marina on the way out, and went trolling for the first ...full report

December 20, 2011 Today we had an all day eight hour swordfishing trip. The seas were running 4-6 feet so we had to troll on the way to the swordfishing grounds. For the first two plus hours we never got a bite, and Eric and his father were looking disappointed, but we were sure we were going to catch them some fish. At about 5 hours into the trip, and about 11 miles offshore, we found a piece ...full report

December 9 and 10, 2011 The wreck fishing has started to pick up over the last few days as the water temperature has cooled to below 78 F. We have been using live bonitos, otherwise known as “bullets”, as our primary baits for deep-dropping on the wrecks. It is no doubt one of the best types of live bait for wreck fishing. We have been seeing cobia, wahoo, amberjacks, black grouper, gag grouper, ...full report

Today was a fun day for me as I ran the cockpit while my mate Drew ran the boat during a full day charter. We ran north 20 miles and got to our fishing spot right at about 8:15 a.m. We had just gotten our first two baits on the kites when our client Mark hooked a sailfish! I quickly grabbed a spinning rod and bait from the well and pitched it towards a second fish for another quick hookup. It seemed ...full report

During the first four days of December, the northeast to east winds were just relentless. They were blowing about 10 20 knots the first two days and 20 35 knots the second two days. The good news though is that the mahi-mahi fishing has been the best I have ever seen. We have been averaging 5 fish every trip up to 30 lbs., with most of them gaffers. All of these fish have been on the reef, in 200 feet ...full report

Today, Ann and her son, visiting from North Carolina, decided to spend Thanksgiving morning fishing aboard the Lady Pamela. I recommended to Ann that we pick up some live goggleyes, telling her that they would greatly increase our chances of landing a sailfish. Despite the added cost, Ann said to do whatever is necessary to make her son happy. So, we picked up the live baits, and then ran about 5 miles ...full report

November 18, 19, 20, 2011 For the last three days or so the weather has been very calm, and boy have the fish been biting. We have been using several different techniques, including trolling, kite fishing and wreck fishing. While trolling we have been catching kingfish, wahoo and mahi-mahi using fresh bonito strips behind blue and pink sea witch feathers. The kite fishing has been productive using ...full report

November 2 and 3, 2011 The last few days we had a nice cold front move through, and when that happens, you can expect first rate fishing in Ft. Lauderdale. We have been live bait kite fishing pretty much every trip for the past several weeks. On November 2nd we had a morning trip with Reggie and his friends from Washington, D.C. They caught a few 20 lb. mahi-mahi, and then missed a sailfish first ...full report

4- to 6-foot seas on the way to the fishing grounds makes for a rough trip. Capt. Ken advised me it would lay down before we would leave for home. It slowed down to 2 to 4 later. Capt. Ken knows his stuff. The first drop yielded many, many Blue Runners. Plenty of action at least. When we reached the next drop, it was slow picking and many short yellowtails. Capt. Ken said lines up for a move to the ...full report

Largemouth are bite are in the 3-5 lb. range. All along the cannal, the bass are hitting plastics, suspending jerk baits and jiggs. If you like fishing with live shinners, make a stop at coppers town and get some. Or even Dade Corners have live bait.Those two shops are on Tammiami Trail. ...full report