Southeast Region

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

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