i Guide Club Blog Central

October has been good to us so far. Loads of mahi-mahi are being caught along with the occasional daytime Swordfish. King Mackerel, Wahoo and Black fin Tuna are showing up in good numbers here in Fort Lauderdale, too. A few Sailfish have been spotted. Our sailfish season this year was a little off, they didn’t leave until way late and are starting to show up again. Hey, we’re not complaining. September and October marks the start of Sailfish season because the baitfish pods are heading down from the North, and they tend to follow.

Tyler Stock and his gang from Indiana joined the Lady Pamela II crew for some South Florida Deep Sea fun. We headed out Port Everglades with rods in the water. Kings were hooked left and right. The Spanish Mackerels and Bonitos were around, too. After we reached out limit on those guys, we headed to a wreck and made a drop. We were successful; a small Amberjack ate the bait.

Kingfish are everywhere lately and we sure do catch our limit almost every trip. 8 - 10 lb’ers are common along with the occasional 15 - 20 lb’er. There are some nice ones being caught. Black fin Tuna’s have been small, little footballs, but every once and a while we catch some anywhere from 6 - 9 lb.

The Mahi - Mahi bite has been red hot offshore. Board’s and different types of debris drifting is a good sign. Baitfish hang around debris. Baitfish = Bigger fish. Anywhere from 500 - 800 ft of water is where we’ve been catching a majority of our dolphin. Fresh strips along with a milar skirt is the trick. Mahi - Mahi aren’t the only fish that hang around debris. Last week a buddy of mine, just fun fishing offshore, found a school of Wahoo underneath a board. He caught 10 nice ones all weighing in around 12 lbs.

Last week the Lady Pamela II went Daytime Sword fishing two days in a row. We fished 6-7 hours each time and not one bite. I got a few reports from friends of mine that went and it was fairly slow for them as well. There was one Sword caught during the day last week weighing in around 200 lbs.

Tight Lines!
Captain David Ide

September 27th, 2008

The Frequent Flyer II crew headed out Port Everglades bright and early this morning with a full day of deep sea fishing ahead of them. There was a local tournament going on and most Lauderdale charter boats were involved in it. We ran 3 miles offshore to fertile grounds with trolling gear set and ready to go. We came across a nice edge in about 700 feet of water and immediately got a quadruple header of some real nice size mahi - mahi ranging anywhere from 18 - 25 lbs. With trolling gear back in the water the deep line went off. A small Wahoo really started pulling some line. The “wee-hoo” weighed in at 6 lbs.

Daytime sword fishing was next on the list. On the first drop the rod bent over. Captain Paul yelled down to Darin, the mate, “hit the button!” Electric reels are a beautiful thing when the bait is down 1800 feet. No swordfish for the FF II, it was a 14 foot Thresher shark. We still wanted to catch a sword so we made our second drop, waited about 20 minutes and the rod bent over. We couldn’t believe our eyes, it was an 11 foot Thresher shark. Thresher sharks are a very rare catch and two back to back is even more unbelievable. That’s the beauty of deep sea sport fishing, you never know what your going to land offshore fishing in Fort Lauderdale.

Tight Lines!
Captain David Ide
LP II