June 19^th

On Sunday, Steven and his grandson came fishing aboard the Lady Pamela IV with John, Jose, Rick and Rob from 1-5PM. Steven was from Texas and had been deep sea fishing a few times before, but no luck with catching any big fish. We wanted to put Steven on the fish so we started off the trip trolling two planers and four top baits. There was a lot of seaweed around and it is hard to troll when the conditions are like this. We started to catch some bonitas and had a few kingfish bites. I got tired of cleaning all the seaweed off the lines so we got the kites ready with some big shark bait rigs to switch things up. Steven and Jose helped reeling the trolling stuff in and we stopped in 150 feet of water right in front of Port Everglades and popped two kites up with live cigar minnows and threadfin herring that we caught in Miami a few days before. The wind was blowing south east at 15 MPH as we got the spread out. All of a sudden a little storm rolled in from the west and I had to position the boat around and head into the wind. We sat like this for 30 minutes before I reeled in the kites because the wind was up and down. We kept the big shark baits out and I told Dave, the mate, to get the snapper rigs ready and we were going to catch our people some eating fish because the fishing was a little slow. While Dave was inside I saw our bobber go down and I gunned the boat ahead to set the hook. Dave came running out to see what was going on and I was telling everybody to reel in the other bait so they wouldn’t get tangled in the rod that we had the fish on. Steven jumped into the fighting chair and got all strapped in and went to battle. I have been fishing for a lot of years out here I have never seen so much line pull off the reel in one shot. We hooked the fish in 110 feet right off Fort Lauderdale beach and the fish ran to 650 feet of water. For one hour we never saw the fish, when we did in was a true sea monster. It was a 12 ½ foot Great Gray Hammerhead Shark. Steven was very tired and so was the shark. The shark was dead when we pulled it through the transom door into the boat. It took all six guys to do so and I threw my back out in the process.  The fish weighed close to 750 lbs. It was awesome.

Tight Lines!

Captain David Ide

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June 17

Today we had to run to Miami in the afternoon around 3pm because we had a fishing tournament on Friday morning so our three boats the Lady Pamela 1, 3 and 4 along with two other fort Lauderdale charter boats headed down that afternoon on the way down we all stop an caught lie bait like cigar minnows and threadfin herrings with some small blue runners mixed in there. Once catching all this live bait we headed to Stiltsville which are houses in the middle of Biscayne Bay five miles from the mainland and tied the boat up and cooked a nice dinner.  

June 18

This morning we all woke up around six and got the boats running and ran 6 miles to dinner key marina where there were 30 charter boats all pulling in at the same time to pick up our clients. It was a little busy trying to find our people because everybody was schedule to a pacific boat once getting all this started out we were off to the races. We ran out of  fisherman’s  channel  and started fishing as soon as we got to a 100 feet of water. We where fishing six lines with fresh Bonita strips and sea witches. The Bonita’s were solid we must have caught 25 Bonita that day trolling an a few short king mackerels that we had to throw back. Then around 1 PM we had a nice bite on the long right rigger bait the line was scream in off the reel the girl Sam jump into the fighting chair and reeled in a 40 lb wahoo a reel nice fish. The wind was out of the south east at 5 mph an fishing was a little slow for the fish we want to catch so we decided to go into the shallows witch are 15 to 30 feet an get up into the tower of the boat that is 30 feet above the water an look for cobias because they counted in the tournament. It’s a little late for them to be in there this time of year but it was worth a shot it wasn’t a hour an we saw a 50 lb cobia but we lost him in the grass flat and when we were trying to find the cobia we saw a sailfish in the sand so we threw every type of live bait we could sardine, threadfin, ballyhoo, pilchard, goggleye the fish would not eat we started to pick up an run to make the weight in and my friend walle saw a nother sailfish 100 yards off my bow we caught get there before him he hooked the fish an caught him it is cool to see the sailfish in that shallow water like that.

Tight Lines,

Capt David Ide

Lady Pamela 2 Sportfishing Charters

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June 13

Today my friend john an his sister Pamela chartered the Lady Pamela 2 for a half day fishing charter in the morning off of fort Lauderdale beach. We cut fresh Bonita strips in the morning so we would have the best bait possible to catch a lot of fish. Once getting all the lines out two down deep and four up top we were ready to catch some fish the fish two hours were slow no bites at all. We end up trolling 8 miles south to a wreck once getting to the shipwreck we keep trolling in circles around the wreck every pass  we were catching kings and Bonita an a cero mackerel. John an Pamela were catching fish for the last part of the trip when I told Dave to reel all the lines in we got one last strike a atlantics sailfish it was great john had never been deep sea fishing before an the last two hour of the trip were great up until this point john an Pamela thought it was boring. It turned out to be a great day for john an Pamela now there going to expect a sailfish on every trip they told me when they left .

June 14

Fort Lauderdale Drift-Fishing Lady Pamela 3  

Tonight the lady Pamela 3 had 8 people on the night snapper trip. Every night we anchor up and chum for yellow-tail snapper, muttons, grays, vermon, an schoolmasters tonight the yellowtail fishing was pretty good in 50 feet of water we caught 30 yellowtail snappers up to 19in and two legal muttons as well a good snapper trip for 8 people.

Tight Lines,

Capt David Ide

Lady Pamela 2

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June 8

James and Matt and their wives came fishing this morning on the Lady Pamela 4 to try their luck deep sea fishing here in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. We started the trip out cutting fresh bonito strips for trolling with sea witches and planners. As soon as we got to 80 feet of water we started to put all four top baits out an two deep lines ( 60 ft. under the surface ). It wasn’t long before we had a few bonitos hooked up at one time. For the whole trip we had nonstop action kingfish, bonitos, and a nice wahoo. The wahoo was a great fight it took 20 min to catch the wahoo, James was telling us the whole trip that it was the best fishing trip he had ever been on.  We came in 40 minutes early because Matt got a little sick but at the end of the trip we had 7 big kingfish, one 50 lb. wahoo, and 8 bonitos. That’s a great four hour trip.

June 9

Today was the All-Day dolphin trip we go every Thursday for the whole day for $90.00.  We take 15 people on the Lady Pamela 3.We started the trip out cutting fresh strips for trolling all day. We normally take 15 people but today we only had ten. Trolling eight lines with fresh strips and ballyhoos we where catching fish all day long they caught 20 Bonita’s, 10 kingfish, a few yellowtail snappers and cero mackerels an some black fin tunas an to Mahi- Mahi. It was a very successful all- day dolphin fishing trip the boat end up cathing over forty fish.

Tight Lines,

Capt. David Ide

Lady Pamela 2

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Fort Lauderdale Fishing Charters

8-12 morning

This morning Paul an I had 6 guys down in fort Lauderdale for a bachelor party. They never really had been deep sea fishing before so we had some fresh bonitos in the morning that we cut up into strips. This time of year have fresh bonito strips is key for trolling. Our first pass in a 150 feet of water we had a triple header on. One kingfish, Bonita, and a small black-fin tuna. Evan couldn’t believe it for the three hours we where trolling it was as fast as I could work every time I turned around we had another fish on the line bonitos, king fish, black fin tunas we also caught a few small mahi - mahi that we had to let go because they where to short to keep. Evan and friends got sea sick so we came in early but the fishing was red hot we ended up catching seven kingfish, 6 bonitos ,  3 mahi- mahi , 3 black-fin tunas. And we came in one hour early.

1-5 Afternoon

On the after noon trip we had Doug an Kevin an some of there business clients they took the afternoon trip because the fishng has been a little better. And it was we started trool as soon as we got to a 100 feet using two planners down deep around 60 feet under the surface and four baits on top as soon as we got all the lines in the water we had 2 bonitos on one doug in the fighting chair an one guy standing up with a belt on. The next two hour strait we couldn’t keep a bait in the water it was unreel at one time the Lady Pamela 1 had a sailfish on right next two us we keep circleing the Lady Pamela 1 an Paul yell there he is on the right long rigger so I picked the rod up and hooked the sail we cleared all the other rods and backed down hard an it took 1 min or so but we landed a nice 6 foot sail fish and the Lady Pamela 1’s sailfish was 5 ½ feet the trooling has been as good as it get the last couble of days. So after that two hours of none stop action Doug an his friends want to try some shark fishing.

FORT LAUDERDALE DRIFT FISHING

This morning our DRIFT FISHING boat the LADY PAMELA 3 went out with 18 people. Fishing between 90 an 180 feet of water using fresh sardines and ballyhoos with three hook rigs an 1oz lead. They caught 18 Bonita’s, 2 big Mahi Mahi,  5 big kingfish, and a few yellowtail snapper. That’s a great catch for the drift boat this time of year every day on the lady Pamela 3 for the last two weeks the drift fishing has been great.

Tight lines,

Capt David Ide

Lady Pamela 2 sport fishing

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Chuck and family from a small “HOME TOWN” of Mitchell, South Dakota came fishing aboard the Lady Pamela 3 on our daily drift fishing trip yesterday. The fishing was excellent the boat caught some big trigger fish, a few 8-12 pound bonitos and a big kingfish. At the last moment of the trip, we had to reel in and head back home. Right at this time Chuck hooked in to a monster fish. He fought the fish for a while and when it came up to the surface, Joe, the first mate on the boat shouted, monster kingfish. The deckhands rushed to grab the bigger gaff and ran to the corner of the boat to gaff the king. Good job Chuck on catching the biggest fish of the trip, a 30 king fish. May is a good month for catching a wide variety of bottom fish and surface feeders on the drift boat. On the Drift fishing we are also catching kingfish, mutton snappers, yellowtail snappers, grouper, bonito and black fin tunas. There is some good deep sea fishing out there these days

(Testimonial)
David,
Thanks for the great fishing experience. May 2011 to see Mike Miller of The Heat, take in a couple of great basketball games and do some fishing. Mike Miller is from our small “hometown” of Mitchell, SD pop. 14,500. As you can see from my pictures that our prize fish was the 51″ King that I caught, as well as some other fine catches by my brother Mike, my dad Chuck Sr. and Uncle Tony. Thanks again!

Tight Lines,

Lady Pamela 2 Sportfishing charters

Capt David Ide

954 761 8045

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