August 30- 31, 2011

Chief, Bobby, Bob, and Diego joined Darin and I on the Lady Pamela I for a night of swordfishing. We left at 6:00 p.m. with a dozen live blue runners in the live well, and Darin rigging seven nice squids on the way to the fishing grounds. The wind was blowing 5- 10 knots out of the southeast, and we were on the dark side of the moon, so I was expecting the fish to snap. At 7:45 pm we set two live baits and two squids from 400 to 1000feet for our first two hour drift. With no action, I had decided to make a move back 5 miles to the south when our long bait, the 1000 foot one, got a bite. Diego was first up so he got to fight the fish. It was a short battle as the swordfish was a youngster, only about 35 lbs. We got a quick picture and released it fast. We put the baits back out, after making our 5 mile run back to the south, and it wasn’t 10 minutes before we had another bite. This was a nice sword bite on a live blue runner under the light, about 150 feet below the boat. This was one angry swordfish that jumped straight off the bow and fell off. Not much we could do with that one! Darin grabbed a new leader and re-rigged with a live blue runner as fast as he could; dropping the rig back down, hoping for another quick swordfish bite. It wasn’t long after that we had a huge bite. We thought we had a several hundred pound fish on, and we did. The crew battled what turned out to be a 200 lb. hammerhead shark! The crew was tired after the long shark battle, so shortly thereafter we threw in the towel and headed back to the dock. I have to say my theory on fishing tonight was right on, the fish were biting and at least we caught one!

September 1, 2011

This morning, we went fishing here in Ft. Lauderdale with regular customer Kent and some of his college roommates from Nashville Tennessee. We ran out in the Lady Pamela IV and put the bait out as fast as we could, trolling from 120 feet out to 600 feet using fresh mullet strips. We were using two baits on planer boards that dive deep up to 60 feet, and four surface baits skipping across the top of the water. The first fish landed in the boat was a nice 25 lbs. bull kingfish, and then the Atlantic bonitos and barracuda started snapping. We caught eight of them before a 25 lb. wahoo ate the bait on left long planer and Kent reeled him in. Captain Pauli decided to mix it up and swing out deep for mahi mahi. It was a little while before we had another bite but when we did it was worth it. A 15 lb blackfin tuna hit the right short planer on a pink and white sea witch skirt.

I want to let you another thing that’s happening with Ft. Lauderdale fishing right now. As we speak, the mullet run on our coast has started and it is crazy! The mullet run is the annual migration of these baitfish as they swim south along the coast down our way as the water cools in the northeast. There are clouds of these baitfish swimming around Ft. Lauderdale and the snook, tarpon, barracuda, and jack crevalles are gorging themselves. The inshore fishing for these species is some of the best anywhere when the mullet are running. Just today, as the Lady Pamela III was returning from a charter, the whole of Port Everglades was teeming with mullet. Mate Adam quickly netted several dozen, rigged up and trolled a few, and within ten minutes had a customer hooked up on a jumpy 70 lb tarpon. What a way to finish a charter! Come join us!

Tight Lines,

Capt David Ide

954 761 8045

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Aug 24

Duane and family came fishing yesterday morning for some south Florida fun. It was time to try their luck deep sea fishing while here on vacation. Our first stop was to fill our 100 gallon live well with a few live blue runners and small bonitos as fresh bait for the trip. We started our first troll with two baits on planer boards. The planers are designed to bring baits to 65 feet below the surface. These deep baits are irresistible to king mackerel, wahoo, and blackfin tunas. We also put out four top baits, each skipping nicely across the top of the water. Today the fish were biting between 140 ft and 350 feet where a nice north current was running. We fished the edge of the current break and caught a few nice big bonitos, three kings and a feisty 25 lb wahoo. That wahoo was a nice end to the trip. Hurricane Irene is due to stir up the weather later this week so this turned out to be a nice fishin’ day.

Tight Lines,

Captain David Ide

954 761 8045

www.ladypamela2.com

Email us ladypamela2@bellsouth.net

August 17, 2011

Today was one spectacular day of shark fishing. Harlan and his family joined us on the Lady Pamela II for a day of deep sea fishing. We started the trip out trolling two planer boards and four surface baits that skip across the surface. Nice fresh bonito strips on all the rigs. We caught a few king mackerel and a nice blackfin tuna and a Spanish mackerel. The last hour of the trip we moved out to 350 feet of water for some shark fishing. Down went four fresh whole bonitos on 130 Penn Internationals loaded with 150 lb braided line. We left two baits on top, one in the middle, and a bottom bait. Right before we were going to reel up, the middle bait balloon got heavy, and I gunned the boat ahead to set the hook. Harlan got in the fighting chair for what turned into 30 minute battle. I sensed when we hooked the fish that it was a true monster as it took ½ spool of line on the 130 on the first run! When the leader finally got to the boat, I saw my first small eye thresher shark in Florida. It was the first one I had ever caught and only the 5th one I had ever heard of being caught in south Florida. These fish are normally caught in the Maryland, New York, New Jersey area. Great catch Harlan!

August 18, 2011

This afternoon the Lady Pamela II went out trolling with Robert and his family from New Jersey. On the first pass in 100 feet of water we had a triple-header of bonitos, and everybody landed their fish. We got the baits back out as fast as we could and then caught four kingfish over the next 30 min. With plenty of time left, we went out a little deeper, from 250 out to 450 feet. We worked the baits back and forth between the depths and caught a 15 lb wahoo, a 30 lb wahoo, and a 20 lb barracuda. Trolling in the afternoons sure has been producing the some nice wahoos! Come join us!

Tight Lines,

Capt David Ide

954 761 8045

www.ladypamela2.com

Email us ladypamela2@bellsouth.net

August 11, 2011

Today was the big corporate charter that we have every year with a local insurance company here in sunny Fort Lauderdale.  We had 10 boats booked from 8-2 p.m. It was like our own mini-tournament! My buddy David, the event organizer,  fished on the Lady Pamela IV with mate Pauli and I.  I should note that at the dinner party the night before, David stood up and said if no one catches a fish he would pay $400.00, at  which time he turned around to me a said he would be talking it from my end!  I was praying that everybody was catching fish, and they were. Most of the boats started trolling right off the bat, with the bonitas and king mackerals demolishing the baits. On the Lady Pamela IV we trolled the entire morning trip on the reef, then went Mahi Mahi hunting out in 800 feet of water. We had a sailfish on the right long rigger bait for a few shots and then he swam to the center rigger bait and Pauli missed him. Oh well, that’s fishing! On the Lady Pamela, Darrin took his party shark fishing after after wearing them out on kingfish and bonitas. They waited  for 45 minutes before hooking and releasing a 7 foot hammerhead shark.  Another one of the boats caught a beautiful trophy sailfish. The pictures we got should be in a magazine.  Long story short, all ten boats each caught 10 fish plus. The fish are biting: don’t miss out on some Fort Lauderdale fishing!

August 12, 2011

The Lady Pamela III,  Fort Lauderdale nicest drift fishing boat, had 14 people on board the 7-11 p.m. trip. On these night trips we anchor up and chum for snappers,  groupers,  kingfish, and what ever else bites.  This night, the weather conditions where perfect and the fish where biting!  We ended up catching 69 keeper snapper, mostly  the best eating yellowtails and mangroves.  Most  amazing was that one person even reeled in a 3lb. spiny lobster! Lke I said, everything was biting that night! Hook em’ up!      

Tight Lines,

Capt, David Ide

954 761 8045

www.ladypamela2.com

August 1

Today I ran the Lady Pamela with Justin as the mate and Vinnie as our new mate in training today was a good day for Vinnie because the action was none stop we had four on a shared charter Larry and his nephew Charlie along with mike and roger it was a great crew. We stared the trio off by catching live bait at one of the anchored ships. Then started to troll north fishing five rods with fresh bonito strips and Stan ruer sea witches the bontia and kingfish were chewing it was one after the other we also caught a barracuda on the troll that morning I told Justin to reel every thing in because I wanted to try some wreck fishing with the live bait that we caught that morning. As Justin was reeling everything in I saw a war bird low to the water a mile in front of the boat so I told Justin to put all that baits back out for a min so we keep trolling north till we got to were the bird was a we raised a sailfish  on the left long rigger bait as Justin was reeling the bait away from the fish to make the sailfish mad I was reeling another bait to get it in position as soon as I got my bait there Justin hooked the fish Charlie jumped into the fighting chair as the sailfish jumped all over the ocean it was a 15 min battle and we landed the sailfish tagged and released. Then we ran to the ship wrecks from 200 to 400 feet our first drop was in 260 feet of water with a live blue runner the rod bent over and mike jumped into the chair and fought the fish in took 10 min to reel it in and mike said to me I couldn’t reel any longer I am wore out the 45 lb alamco jack was a nice fish.

TIGHT LINES,

CAPT DAVID IDE

954 761 8045

Ladypamela2@bellsouth.net

www.ladypamela2.com

July 28

Gary and Victor from New Jersey came out on the Lady Pamela IV for three days in a row.  The first day we went out in the afternoon. We went right to 350 feet of water and put out three shark baits, one on the kite, one on the bottom and one in 150 feet of water. We sat there for three hours before we finally got a bite, about a seven foot shark on the kite bait. But it didn’t last too long, the fish fell off and the four hour trip was up but Gary really loves shark fishing so they booked another trip for the next afternoon. Gary told me, David I don’t want to catch bait for sharks, I want to get on the boat and shark fish the whole trip he said I don’t care if I catch a fish, but all I want is sharks so that what we did.

The next afternoon Gary and Victor showed up around 12:30. We got on the boat and untied the lines and stared shark fishing in 150 feet of water at the whistle buoy. It took about 45 minutes before we got a bite on the bottom.  As soon as a 100 yds. of line was off the reel the fish fell off. We put the baits back out for 30 minutes and I decided to reel everything up and run 8 miles north. Leo put the baits out in 135 feet of water as soon as we stopped the boat.  It took 20 min and we had a fish on Victor got into the chair took 30 turns on the reel and the fish got away. I felt bad for Victor because this was the third shark we lost in two trips. I was determined to catch Victor a monster shark. 

Just as it was time to reel in all the baits, the last rod in the water (before Leo had a chance to reel it in) bent over to the bottom and I gunned the boat ahead to set the hook. This time Victor was going to sit in the fighting chair for almost two hours and fight a fish that some people only dream about. It was a very long battle and took a lot of strength form both Leo and I. We finally got the monster 400 lb. bull shark tied up to the boat and there was a 35 lb cobia swimming around the monster bull shark.  So I quickly grabbed a spinning rod and a live ballyhoo and pitched it several times before the huge cobia finally ate the bait. Then Victor didn’t get a break, he had to reel in another fish. This cobia didn’t take long maybe 10 minutes before I gaffed the cobia and threw him in the box. I told victor to sit on the box to keep them in it.  I am sure this is a trip that Victor and I will never forget.      

Tight Lines,

Capt David Ide

www.ladypamela2.com

ladypamela2@bellsouth.net

954 761 8045

July 21, 2011

LADY PAMELA I

Today the Lady Pamela 1 had a full day charter for daytime swordfishing. We left the dock at 7 am in the morning and were going to return at 4 p, a long day on the water, but we wanted to catch a big swordfish to bring back and hang at the dock for Jim. We rigged a few Bonita strips and squids on the 15 mile run out, when we got to the sword grounds we had the reel ready to go so we dropped in 1800 feet of water off the double 0 mark, our first drop. It didn’t take 20 minutes and we had a bite but we lost him. So we made three more drops. While we had our sword bait on the bottom a whole school of Mahi- mahi swam up to the boat, 80 plus fish. In one hour we caught 45 Mahi -mahi great day for our customers, one fish after another on lite spinning rods but only 20 keepers the rest were to short to keep so we let them go. It was a long day, no swordfish but lots of Mahi.

LADY PAMELA IV

On the Lady Pamela IV we had two half day charters. In the morning we caught lots of kingfish and Bonitas on the troll and some small black fin tunas. In the afternoon trip we had Marcus from Venezuela and his family.  We started the trip out trolling and caught five nice size kingfish up to 15 lbs. and four Bonitas. Then all of a sudden one of the planer rods bent over an stared ripping drag off the reel faster than normal and a nice sailfish started dancing all over the ocean. Leo cleared all the lines fast so Paul could start backing down the boat to chase the sailfish. It was a good 15 minutes before landing the sailfish. It was six foot in length and we tagged the billfish then let him swim away so we can catch him another day. Great job to Marcus from Venezuela. Marcus owns his own charter boat in Venezuela but never catches sailfish but he told me they catch a lot of big tiger sharks there.

LADY PAMELA III

Adam and Joe had the all-day dolphin Thursday trip today.  Joe said it was definitely an exhilarating all-day of catching dolphin today. They found weed lines from 650 foot of water all the way out to 980 feet and Joe said that he couldn’t even get two lines out for most of the trip. They caught 60 Mahi-mahi on the 8 hour trip today and only got to bring home 12 Mahi- mahi the other dolphin where too short to keep. But it was great that there were 15 people and all 15 people got to catch 4 fish each that’s what makes a good trip.

TIGHT LINES,

CAPT DAVID IDE

LADY PAMELA 2 SPORTFISHING CHARTERS

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July 19, 2011

Today we had Dino from Ft. Myers, Harold from Kentucky and Tim from Connecticut. We stared a few minutes late getting off the dock but that didn’t stop the Lady Pamela 4 from catching fish.  Every morning when the Bonitas are around we cut fresh trolling bait, which is key this time of year. We trolled for the first two hours of the trip catching a few King Mackerels and some Bonitas. The trolling wasn’t red hot so I decided to try shark fishing in 350 feet of water right off the coast of Fort Lauderdale Beach. Leo rigged three big Bonitas with two 11/0 hooks in each bait and the three 130 lb. rods. He sent one down 350 feet, the second 150 feet down and one on the surface. There was 2.5 knots of north current and it looked pretty good for getting a bite so we waited it out. After 50 min went by, I was talking to Leo on the bridge of the boat when the 150 foot bait started bouncing. Leo stared reeling and I gunned the boat ahead to set the hook. At the same exact time, there was a hammer head on top chasing the top bait, it was chaos, but very exciting. Leo dropped back the bait and hooked the fish, we now had a double header with two giant hammer head sharks. Tim fought one, Harold fought the other and they ended the day with a great catch and an awesome story for their friends.

Tight Lines!

Captain David Ide

954-761-8045

July 13, 2011

On July 13, I had a half day fishing charter in the morning with William, Greg and their two sons. We caught some live bait on the way out at a ship and then stared trolling to north to try some shark fishing and wreck fishing. The trolling was a little slow. We caught one bonito and a kingfish after trolling 5 miles north with a light north current. Shortly after, we decided to do some shark fishing in 150 of water off the steeple. We put a few live ballyhoo out on spinning rods and the Bonita were biting! The action was nonstop, so after an hour and a half of shark fishing we decided to try some wreck fishing. We got the 80 lb. rod out with a drop rig and a circle hook. I ran one mile to our destination as Paul rigged a live speedo and dropped it two hundred and fifty feet before hitting the bottom. By the end of the day, we made 5 drops on ship wrecks and William’s son caught a nice Almaco Jack. William and Greg where very happy we stayed out extra time just trying to get some more fish. It ended up being another fantastic day on the water in Fort Lauderdale.

Tight Lines!

Captain David Ide

954-761-8045

July 7, 2011

We stared the trip out by catching a few live baits like speedos and hard tails so if we decided to go wreck fishing we had the right bait to produce fish. As we trolled north from 90 - 200 feet of water we caught several Bonita up to15 lbs. and a few kingfish up to 12 lbs. Brad and Chad wanted to try some different kinds of fishing so we went wreck fishing. Our first two spots we hit, one in 245 feet and the other in 168 feet, had no action. Therefore, we ran a little further north to a wreck in 300 ft of water and the other in 200 ft of water where we got some nice bites. Chad’s son was the first one up using a live Speedo, Brad’s son landed a 60lb. Warsaw grouper. After seeing that Chad’s 14-year-old son caught that, Brad said it is my turn so we made another drop. This time I could tell it was a different kind of fish so Brad had a little battle in front of him the whole time. Brad was fighting it and he was yelling and screaming, but he caught himself a nice Amberjack weighing in around 60 lbs. We were already late getting back to the dock if we were to pick up and leave our good fishing, but I really wanted to catch Chad a fish, so I told Paul, let’s try one last time. It was worth it. As soon as the bait hit the bottom, Chad was in the fighting chair battling with a big fish from the deep. Another big grouper! What a day, and a lucky group of guys!

Tight Lines!

Captain David Ide

954-761-8045

Lady Pamela 2 Fort Lauderdale Fishing Charters

July 1, 2011

The Ellison family from Texas came out fishing today with Josh and I for a full day charter. We started out catching a few live baits at a ship that was anchored for a few weeks in 100 feet of water. The live baits that we caught where speedos and blue runners. After getting the live bait we started trolling to the north with four top baits out and two deep planers out. We caught a few kingfish and bonitas. The trolling was nonstop and we ended up catching 10 bonitas an 4 kingfish. Then all of a sudden I hooked an Atlantic Sailfish off the bridge, on the high line.  Mr. Ellison’s son got into the chair, and it took about 20 min before we landed the 83” sailfish. We tagged the fish real quick and released it. Then we stared shark fishing in 350 feet of water with three shark baits. It took one hour before I got the bite and I gunned the boat ahead to set the hook. We got Mr. Ellison into the fighting chair. It ended up being a 9 foot hammer head shark. After landing the hammer head we went wreck fishing with the live baits we caught earlier during the trip. I went to five different ship wrecks from 160 feet to 245 feet and we caught one huge Almaco jack that fell off as we were bringing it in the boat. It was a long day out on the water but we caught fish the whole trip.

         The Lady Pamela 3 Morning Drift Fishing Trip

July 2,2011

Today the Lady Pamela 3 on the afternoon trip 1-5 had one of the best drift fishing trips we had ever had. Using fresh sardines and ballyhoos two to three hook rigs using 2 or 3 oz leads. We where fishing in a 100 – 180 feet of water the fishing was red hot. Every body on the boat was catching fish the boat drift boat the Lady Pamela 3 caught 28 bonitas, one Almaco jack about 30 lbs, a 29 lb Blackfin tuna, two mutton snappers, and three kingfish one spectacular fishing trip.

Tight Lines,

Capt David Ide

Lady Pamela 2

954 761 8045

June 29

Drew and his family came fishing today with Captain Paul & I we started the trip out trolling. Using planners and top baits we managed to catch a few bonitas and kingfish fish started out a little slow but once trolling up to our spot 8 miles north of port everglades we had a live bait well full of bait so I knew working hard at it we would catch some fish and we did our first two shipwrecks we went to the fishing wasn’t that great but we caught one nice barracuda  so we keep hitting the ship wrecks and we found a spot that was working in 280 feet of water when it was time to go home we started catching fish. Drew son reeled in a nice Alamo jack and drew reel in another amberjack then all of a sudden we hooked a sailfish on a live ballyhoo that we had behind the boat it jumped five times and fell off but it was cool to see. Another good day on the water.  

June 30

Today I ran the Lady Pamela 5 and Paul ran the Lady Pamela 4 the trolling was as good as ever in the morning and died in the Afternoon I went wreck fishing in the afternoon before the rain storms came. Paul on the other hand went shark fishing in 150 feet of water using fresh bonitas with a two hook rig it took two hours before the balloon went under the water and Paul gunned the boat ahead to set the hook Robert jumped into the chair to start the battle on the fish it didn’t talk very long the fish was 5 foot Sandbar shark  and caught the fish on a 130 Penn international. I had a live well full of speedos so when I ran north. I saw we only had minutes before the rain showed up and I wouldn’t be able to fish. Our first drop I got Morgan all set up and ready to go I dropped the bait to the bottom and went to reel up 20 and I had a huge fish on 50 lb. tackle. As I got the belt around Morgan and strapped him in he had a long fight ahead of him it took Morgan a good 15 min to land the fish. We got the Hugh Amberjack into the boat and I ran right back to the wreck and dropped another bait down because it already started raining. This time brain and his 7 year old son where up so another speedo on the bottom and this time it took 5 min before the rod bent over and Brian was reeling as fast as he could then we gave his son the rod it was a nice 20 Alamco jack. This Hugh rain storm came the wind was 50 MPH and raining  like you never seen it. We end up running 8 miles towards home I still had one guy Martian that didn’t catch a fish so I stopped at one last wreck in 220 feet of water. This took 5 min and no bite so as I was reeling the bait back to the boat a school of Mahi Mahi came up with the bait I grapped three spinners and threw chunk bait out and we caught 6 Mahi Mahi to end the trip every body was happy.

Tight Lines,

Capt David Ide

www.ladypamela2.com

954 761 8045          

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

954-761-8045