October 26, 2011

Today was a great day in the morning. We had a three boat charter in the morning, we me running our 36 foot Invincible (Open Fisherman). After a quick stop on the way out to purchase a couple dozen live goggleyes, we headed six miles north of Port Everglades to 110 - 185 feet of water. There was a strong south current with a northeast wind of 20- 25 knots. It looked as good as it could get in Ft. Lauderdale for sailfish and mahi-mahi. It took 15 minutes for me two get two kites in the air and a few flat lines in the water.  Twenty minutes went by and I yelled there’s a sailfish on the right long bait! I fed the fish and it came up jumping. David, one of my anglers, took the rod and began his 25 minute battle with the sailfish. Once we got it to the boat we tagged the fish and released it. For the next two hours we had four more bites; three mahi-mahi an one oceanic bonito. It was a lot of fun and it is always nice to fish with a fun group of people.

Oct 25, 2011

AM Trip

Well on the morning of the 25th we had four on a split. Two guys from Pennsylvania and a husband and wife from Wisconsin. They did not want to buy live baits so we got it done the old fashion way, trolling using fresh mullet strips with down planers and four surface baits. The kingfish were plentiful on the troll and we caught 5 kingfish, a few bonito and one mahi-mahi. We caught our last fish of the day as we were trolling south back to our home port. A sailfish bit a blue and white sea witch on the left rigger and promptly dumped a half spool of line off a Shimano TLD30. I was telling everybody in the cockpit to reel every thing up so we could chase the fish. Once everything was cleared, I backed down on the fish and we caught it in 20 minutes. Mike was happy because he said he could not reel any more! We got the sailfish into the boat, got some fantastic pictures, then tagged and released the fish in front of Fort Lauderdale.

PM Trip

On the afternoon trip, we were fishing right off the beach in Fort Lauderdale in 110 feet of water. We put up two kites with five lines in the water. Randy and his family have been deepsea fishing on almost every vacation since they are from Kentucky and there is not much deepsea fishing there. Our first few bites were kingfish and they chopped our baits in half. Then we sat there for two hours with no bites. I picked up, ran 6 miles to the north, and put the same spread back out. It took 30 minutes but we caught a few mahi –mahi. Thirty minutes after that we got the bite from the fish we wanted, a sailfish. Randy’s son jump into the fighting chair and began fighting the biggest fish he had ever caught in his life. It did not take very long because the fish did a lot of jumping around and wore it self out. We tagged the sailfish and turned him free to fight another day. We caught the fish in 150 feet of water using live bait. There is no doubt that live bait is the key to success this time of year. I cannot say it enough, this October has been some of the best fishing in Fort Lauderdale that I have ever seen.

Tight Lines,

Captain David Ide

954 761 8045

www.ladypamela2.com

Email us ladypamela2@bellsouth.net

October 21, 2011

Today was a lot of fun. This morning’s trip I had a great group of guys, the Lambert brothers from New Jersey. Fishing was a little slow in the morning. We kite fished for sailfish for three hours with live goggleye’s and never saw a fish in the kite. So, the last hour we went trolling for kingfish and they were biting pretty good off the planers, rigged with fresh bonito strips and sea witch feathers.

On the afternoon charter Thad, Woolley, Cody, and Bret joined us. They were all from Texas and you could tell they were going to be a lot of fun. We purchased live bait on the way out to try some more kite fishing, even though the morning bite was slow. We had a cold front that had pushed through today, and it was 64 degrees with the wind blowing out of the north around 15- 20 knots. A cold front like this gets the sailfish up and moving from the north to the south, and I was sure we were going to see some fish. We spent the first ten minutes kite fishing, in 110 feet of water, and Woolley instantly caught a 15 lb kingfish. We put the kite back out for another 25 min with no action. I saw a current edge offshore of us in 650 feet of water so I ran out there with the kites up. There were 6-8 foot seas outside and two out of the six customers were getting sick. So, after 25 minutes I decided to reel them up. As we were reeling the baits up a nice little school of 10 lb mahi-mahi swam up and we caught two of them, then we ran back to calm water.

A good friend of mind Ray Ray called me on the phone and said when he was running back from Palm Beach he had seen a few schools of mullet swimming south, one in 110 feet of water and one in 250 feet. He said he might have seen some sailfish on them. I immediately reeled in the kites and ran north. We got 4 miles up the line and from the tuna tower I saw the huge school of mullet in 100 feet water. I yelled to my mate Paul to get some spinners ready to cast as soon as I pulled up to the bait ball. There were at least six sails there, maybe 8, and a nice sailfish grabbed the first bait Paul pitched. We caught the fish in five minutes, ran back to the school, and one of our guests pitched another bait. He hooked a sailfish on his own, but broke it off. We saw one more fish that we pitched several times to, but it just would not eat. Overall, it was a great trip, and to see all those sailfish on top was a sight.

Tight Lines,

Captain David Ide

954 761 8045

www.ladypamela2.com

October 15, 2011

This morning was a cool morning as I took my cousin Candace, and her boyfriend Vince out on a shared charter with George, from Washington, D.C. The pressure was on, because Vince had never caught a sailfish, and it was his dream to catch one. Plus, my other cousin Steve had told Vince that if he didn’t catch a fish with David that he (Vince) was bad luck! We bought a half dozen goggleyes on the way out of the inlet with a plan to go right to kite fishing. The seas were running 5-6 feet, and the wind was blowing 20-25 knots out of the northeast. I wanted to run north and get in front of all the other charter boats. That way, if the fish were tailing down sea, I would be the first boat in line for a bite. We were on the way up north, in 130 feet of water, with about a mile to my start point, when I heard on the radio that a boat in front of me had just missed a sailfish. I stopped the boat short, and popped the kites up fast, right in line with the boat that had missed the sailfish. Ten minutes later I told mate Paul, here he comes on the left short line! Sure enough, Paul fed the bait to the sailfish, set the hook, and it started jumping all over the ocean. Vince jumped into the fighting chair, and after a 25 minute battle we got the leader and Vince’s dream had come true. Sorry Steve, no bad luck for Vince! Then, no sooner had we put the kites back up that we hooked a double-header of blackfin tuna. Candace caught one and George caught the other one, each about 12 lbs. There was fishing success had by all, so with the choppy seas building, everyone agreed to head to the dock an hour early. That was a treat for Paul and I, as we were able to get a rare lunch in between trips!

Tight Lines,

Captain David Ide

954 761 8045

www.ladypamela2.com

email Us ladypamela2@bellsouth.net

October 12, 2011

Poppa Johns Pizza Family

This morning, Pauli and I had Annette, and her son Bo, came fishing with us. We picked up some live goggleyes by Lauderdale Marina, and on the way out we explained all about the type of fishing we had planned. This time of year kite fishing is the most productive type of fishing one can do. It involves flying two specially designed kites from the bridge of the boat, with live baits such as goggleyes, sardines, pilchards or threadfin herrings suspended on release clips beneath the kites. The kites keep the live baits right on the surface, but well away from the drifting boat. Kite fishing in the winter months is highly productive for sailfish, but wahoo, tunas, and mahi-mahi are often caught as well. Anyway, today I wanted to try to hook up 12 year old Bo, who had never been deep sea fishing before, with a sailfish. We popped the kites up right in front of the whistle buoy, in about 110 feet of water. In two hours we caught a kingfish and jumped off one sailfish. Sometimes you just can’t catch everything that bites. Regardless, we put out a fresh set of live baits on the kites and in 30 minutes we hooked another sailfish. This time things went in our favor, even with the sailfish jumping all over the ocean and putting on a good show! It took Bo a good 20 minutes to reel the 6 ½ footer to the boat, where we tagged it and set it free. By the way, I forgot to mention that seas were running about 10 foot that day. Good job Annette and Bo!

Tight Lines,

Captain David Ide

954 761 8045

www.ladypamela2.com

Email Us ladypamela2@bellsouth.net

October 10, 2011

Jeffery and his wife from Washington, DC, fished the 1-5 p.m. charter this afternoon, aboard the Lady Pamela II. The weather was blowing 25 mph out of the northeast which made the seas a little big, but we could still go fishing. We had to go slow on the way out so there was plenty of time to rig a nice trolling spread. The baits were put out as soon as we cleared the inlet and once we got to 60 feet of water two 15 lb mahi-mahi slammed the lines. Captain Paul was yelling at the mate Peter to get Jeffery into the fighting chair. As we were fighting the two mahi-mahi Paul got a bite on the high line bait. This bait is trolled from high up on the fly bridge and it was a huge sailfish. Jeffery sure had his hands full while all this was going on but somehow he got it done! He was reeling in fish the whole entire trip. We ended up with 7 mahi-mahi and that huge sailfish. What a great trip.

Tight Lines,

Capt. David Ide

www.ladypamela2.com

Email Us ladypamela2@bellsouth.net

954 761 8045

October 2, 2011

Last Saturday, April asked me to take her fishing. The weather was going to be nice on Sunday, so I broke out an electric fishing reel to try some daytime swordfishing. Saturday night I invited my buddy Andrew  to go along so we could have an extra hand on board. He said sure, and he’d bring his girlfriend Sam, so everything was good. We woke up at 5:30 am on Sundaywith a little more wind than expected, but we decided to go anyway. We launched the boat and were about 10 miles offshore when the girls said it was too rough to continue, so we turned around. On the way back to the dock the girls decided they wanted to try some sailfishing. With a dozen frisky pilchards in the live well, the decision to fish was made. The wind was blowing about 20-30 knots out of the north so it was a little bumpy offshore, but the seas were smoother nearshore. Four live baits were put out and we made our first drift near the whistle buoy in 150 feet of water (about 1 mile offshore). It wasn’t long before the kingfish started chopping us off. We saw a few man-o-war birds working in shallow so we picked up and ran in to see what was happening. The birds were tracking a huge school of ballyhoo with at least a dozen nice mahi mahi crashing the school. A quick cast out with live baits and all four of us were tight on nice fish. In less than 15 minutes we had all landed fish over 12 lbs. All this action was in 35 feet of water right in front of Port Everglades inlet. We eventually lost the ballyhoo school so we ran back to 100 feet of water, put the baits back out, and in 25 minutes Andrew hooked a sailfish and passed the rod to Sam. It was her first sailfish ever! After she got it behind the boat, we popped the hooks, released the fish, then ran back in to the shallows and anchored to chum up some more bait. In one throw of the cast net I was able to load the baitwell with ballyhoo. We spotted the birds just outside, in forty feet of water, baited up and caught a couple more nice mahi mahi. We also jumped off another nice sail. All in all, our daytime “swordfishing” trip sure was productive.

September 29, 2011

Today was our all day dolphin fishing trip on the Lady Pamela III. A total of 14 anglers were on the boat and they enjoyed one of the greatest all day trips we have ever had. We started the morning out trolling with fresh bonito strips, and in no time we had limited out on kingfish. Then one of our anglers, Aaron, and his 4 year old daughter, hooked up and landed a sailfish. After catching all of these fish, we tried some snapper fishing, and limited out on the vermilion snappers! Next stop was gray tile fishing and we caught our limit of those as well. It was nonstop for Captain Adam. Oh, by the way, we also boated 5 blackfin tunas and four bonitos. What a stunning day out there on the water.

September 30, 2011

Today Andy and friends came fishing from Kansas City. They were 45 minutes late this morning as they had lost their car keys and ended up taking a cab to the boat (sounds like it was a good night in Fort Lauderdale for the boys!). Anyway, when they got to the boat, they showed me (Capt. David) the car ring with the missing “key”. I took one look, grabbed the black thing on the key ring, pushed a button and the key appeared. The anglers and crew started laughing so hard we could barely get away from the dock! We finally got out the inlet and immediately started trolling on the reef from 100 -300 feet of water. We had a spread of four surface baits and two deep baits on planer boards. We were ready to fill the boat with fish, and that’s what we did. We were catching one kingfish after the other, along with a few blackfin tunas mixed in. The weather was beautiful, with a nice swell running along with about a 1 knot southerly current and southeast wind. Prime sailfish conditions. With about one hour left on the trip, angler Brad hooked a monster sailfish in 240 feet of blue water. It took him a good 20 minutes or so to reel it in on the 15 lb test and thirty lb leader, but we caught him. What a way to finish the charter! This was one of the funniest charters I have been on in a long time, all because of the way it started.

Tight Lines,

Captain David Ide

954 761 8045

www.ladypamela2.com

Emails us ladypamela2@bellsouth.net