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 2^nd 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 thing in the morning. Later, Reggie hooked up a sailfish that we almost lost. The fish jumped straight at the boat, landed on the covering board, then fell back into the water. My mate Pauli said the fish was teetering like a seesaw! I got a good laugh when I heard that Reggie jumped out of the fighting chair because he thought that the fish was going to hit him!

On November 3rd we had two half-day fishing charters; one from 8 a.m.-12 noon, with the other running from 1p.m.-5p.m. On the morning trip we caught some nice mahi-mahi and 10 Spanish mackerel. The mahi-mahi we’ve been catching the last few days have all been over 12 lbs, with a few fish of 20-25 lbs thrown in. We also missed a sailfish in the morning.

Anglers Bob, and wife Terry caught a nice sailfish in the afternoon and missed a few other knockdowns off the kites. They also caught three 20 lb mahi-mahi and six Spanish mackerel. They sure boated a nice group of fish in four hours. You’ve gotta love the fishing this time of year!

If you ever wanted to catch a sailfish or a swordfish, this is the time of year, and those are not the only abundant species. We also see plenty of kingfish, snappers, mahi-mahi, wahoo, tunas, and sharks this time of year. Come on down to Ft. Lauderdale and let the Lady Pamela crew show you the fishing trip of a lifetime.

Tight Lines,

Captain David Ide

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October 29, 2011

     David, and his friends from Indiana, joined Darin and I on the 8-12 morning trip. The trip was for Bob, who always wanted to catch a nice fish in south Florida waters. We bought a dozen live goggleyes from the Fort Lauderdale Marina on the way out. These live baitfish cost extra (from $60 to $100 per dozen) on top of the charter price, but it is well worth it. There was a strong 2 knot south current that morning and the wind was blowing 15- 20 knots out of the northeast, with seas running 4-6 feet. I was running the boat from the tower hoping to see sailfish tailing down sea but I didn’t see any. However, there was a large container ship anchored in 140 feet of water, and at this time of year, if there is a ship anchored offshore like that, they hold a lot of bait. That means there are fish there. Once we got to the ship, about 20 minutes after we left to the dock, Darin and Dominic put the kites up. As I have said before, kitefishing is the best type of fish to do in the winter time using live baits. So, right off the bat, with our first kite up, with one bait in the water, we jumped off a sailfish. We got the baits back out ASAP and within 20 minutes we hooked a monster sailfish. Our angler fought the fish all the way out to 350 feet of water before we boated it, took some pictures and let the fish go. It sure made the trip for David and Bob! We also caught a few mahi-mahi as a little icing to put on the sailfish cake! As well as a Hammerhead Shark Way to go guys!

Tight Lines,

Captain David Ide

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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September 17, 2011

Paulie and I are just a few days back from giant bluefin tuna fishing. We had two guys with us this morning, Edward and John from New York. I was running the cockpit and it was good to get back down there for a change. Normally, I am just running the boat, so today was great for me. Paulie cut fresh bonito strips before we left the dock, and I sharpened all the hooks and got the baits ready on the way out. Just outside the inlet I put out a great looking bait spread. It wasn’t long before we started getting a few kingfish, as well as a few blackfin tunas. We were trolling in 100 to 350 feet of water for that first hour. We even had a pesky sailfish on the right long rigger. I had a few shots at him before the fish finally faded away. I re-sharpened all the hooks and put all fresh baits back on top. It wasn’t 15 more minutes before I had a sailfish on one of the top baits. Just as I was getting Ed into the fighting chair, my left planer tripped, and I hooked up sailfish number two! I cleared all the lines so Paulie could start to drive the boat on the two fish. It was a tricky little struggle, but it all worked out, as we landed both fish. We sure ended up having a fantastic day.

September 20, 2011

This afternoon the Lady Pamela and Lady Pamela IV both had afternoon trips. We headed offshore for dolphin and wahoo for the first three hours of both trips. Fishing was slow, with only a bonito and a few rainbow runners landed between the two boats. That is until the Lady Pamela found a cargo pallet floating in 500 feet of water. A quick radio call brought the LP IV in on the action! The Lady Pamela caught six wahoo and 10 nice dolphin up to 15 lbs., while the Lady Pamela IV caught four wahoo and four nice dolphin. Thanks to that pallet, what looked like a slow day, ended being two great trips!

Tight Lines,

Captain David Ide

954 761 8045

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Lady Pamela 3- September 15, 2011

              Today we left the dock at 8am with sixteen eager fishermen, my first mate Joe, 2^nd mate Will, and myself. After a quick stop at Lauderdale Marina for drinks and snacks we headed out for what would turn out to be one of the best days of fishing this captain can remember. Joe was at the helm as Will and I started putting the baits out. Within two minutes of putting the lines out, we got our first bite. I set the hook on the first fish, handed it to an eager customer and turned around to witness four other rods bending over simultaneously.  Five fish on and five fish in the box, a great start. As Joe continued to troll south, the hits kept coming with bonitos, black fin tuna, king mackerel and even a 30 pound wahoo coming over the rail of the LP3.

 Around noon we pulled in the trolling gear, and got out the bottom fishing tackle. I positioned the boat over one of my favorite wrecks and Joe and Will dropped our lines, baited with squid and bonito. As soon as they hit the bottom we were getting bites. For the next hour the crew pulled up Snapper after Snapper with some tasty Almaco jacks mixed in. After catching the Snapper I decided to try a long shot, we headed out to another spot that was even deeper. Once again the lines hit the bottom and instantly we were on the fish. Our customers were bringing up deep water Tilefish three at a time (Tilefish are a rare catch and some of the best table fare you can get). About this time the cooler could no longer accommodate any more fish, so Joe and Will started stuffing them in the live well. We continued catching the Tilefish until it was time to go in. On the journey back to the dock we stumbled upon a pair of Dolphin working a weed line in forty feet of water, Joe and Will threw a couple of live baits to these fish and we were hooked up. A twenty pound bull and a fifteen pound cow hit the deck, and were left on the deck because the fish box was full and so was the bait well. All and all an epic day.

                       Two hours were needed to filet all the fish. Grand total for the day; 18 Bonitos, 8 Blackfin Tuna, a Wahoo, 8 King Mackerel, 4 Barracuda, 6 Almaco Jacks, 20 Vermillion Snapper, 46 Tilefish, and two Dolphin.

 Captain Adam

Lady Pamela 3    

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Around noon we pulled in the trolling gear, and got out the bottom fishing tackle. I positioned the boat over one of my favorite wrecks and Joe and Will dropped our lines, baited with squid and bonito. As soon as they hit the bottom we were getting bites. For the next hour the crew pulled up Snapper after Snapper with some tasty Almaco jacks mixed in. After catching the Snapper I decided to try a long shot, we headed out to another spot that was even deeper. Once again the lines hit the bottom and instantly we were on the fish. Our customers were bringing up deep water Tilefish three at a time (Tilefish are a rare catch and some of the best table fare you can get). About this time the cooler could no longer accommodate any more fish, so Joe and Will started stuffing them in the live well. We continued catching the Tilefish until it was time to go in. On the journey back to the dock we stumbled upon a pair of Dolphin working a weed line in forty feet of water, Joe and Will threw a couple of live baits to these fish and we were hooked up. A twenty pound bull and a fifteen pound cow hit the deck, and were left on the deck because the fish box was full and so was the bait well. All and all an epic day.

September 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13 Giant Bluefin Tuna Fishing

Earlier this year my dad told me that his dream was to catch a giant bluefin tuna. So I made the decision to take my dad fishing somewhere different. I phoned a friend that bluefin tuna fishes up in Nova Scotia, Canada, and set up a trip. God knows when I go on vacation I go fishing, shocker right? Well, I got to telling a few friends what I was up to, showed them some previous videos from up there, and soon we had a full boat of four people. My dad and I, Paul that fishes with me, and a customer of mine, Ed from New Jersey, all made the trip. We flew in the same day, got to our awesome house overlooking the bay, and settled in. The next morning we drove 25 minutes to the boat, loaded up, and we were underway and heading out the inlet at 7 a.m. We immediately started catching tinker mackerels, and filled both the live well and our bait box. We ran 2 ½ hours before we found the herring boats. The herring boats are also where the tune are. Well, everybody on our boat wanted to see how the herring boats caught these fish in their gill nets. As all this gawking was going on, I walked to the other side of the boat and started throwing baits over the side of the boat, at these giant bluefin tuna, swirling about underneath the boat; some of them over a thousand lbs. It was something to see. We motored away from the herring boats, put a baits in the water, and it wasn’t long before we were tight as a tiger. Ed jumped into the fighting chair for our first of two fish over one thousand lbs. We ended up fishing a total of four days and caught four giant bluefins. My poor dad was in the fighting chair four different times and never landed a one. We almost got the leader on one of my dad’s fish (about 100 lbs) but it pulled the hook 10 feet from the leader. The old man didn’t get his fish, but he had a helluva time! You’ll never believe it until you see it, but these fish look like small Volkswagen bugs swimming in the water. It was the trip of a lifetime.

Tight Lines,

Captain David Ide

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September 6,2011

Tammy & Doug came fishing with us today for a six hour charter they wanted eating fish so that was the target for the day. We stared the trip out trolling on the reef from 100-500 feet using planner boards and fresh mullet strips with sea witches. The kingfish where biteing along with a few blackfin tunas it was a great trip with lots of fish after the trip was over we cleaned all the fish and droped them off at a local restaurant and they cooked there fish for them.

Thank  You Tammy & doug.

Tight Lines,

Captain David Ide

Lady Pamela 2

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 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

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www.ladypamela2.com

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

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