Happy Holidays to you and your family from all of us at Fishing Headquarters!
Catch My Drift Boat Features
-Fully Air-Conditioned enclosed cabin-Ice cold A/C
-Galley equipped with refrigerator, freezer, microwave
-3 Color Fish Finders/Bottom Sonar
-VHF Radio/Sideband Radio
-GPS Satellite Navigation System
-Dinettes and bench seating inside cabin
-Live bait tank
-Giant Fish Hold with plenty of Ice
-Separate Men’s and Women’s CLEAN restrooms
-Upper sun deck access and seating
-much, much more
Some Awesome Fish Biting on our Fishing Charters This Week
There are some awesome fish biting on our fishing charters this week. I don’t know if it’s the time of year, the supermoon we just had or if there’s something in the water, but there are some unusual catches coming in this week. First off, the sailfish bite has been pretty good. This is the season when the sailfish start biting in good numbers and we haven’t even had any cold weather yet. Well, this is usually the time when the weather starts to cool down so good sailfishing is about to become awesome sailfishing. Wahoo are tearing it up out there. With the supermoon and the big tide swings, the wahoo are biting like mad. A few really nice wahoo and a bunch of medium sized ones were caught this week. Usual catches of kingfish, mackerel and bonitos are also hitting the docks.
We’ve caught some unusual fish this week. The snapper pictured above is a humongous dog snapper. I thought it was a cubera when I first saw it, it was so big. These snappers are very rare for us to catch in south Florida, especially one so large. Other strange and unusual bottom fish are biting too. We’ve caught some monster golden tilefish deep dropping in over 600ft of water. Barrelfish and oilfish are also biting. These are not usual catches for our fishing charters. Other big bottom dwellers such as warsaw grouper and some big amberjacks have been caught on our fishing charters this week. It’s been a great month for bottom fishing.
Shark fishing is also starting to light up out there. This week, we’ve caught several hammerhead sharks, a mako shark (very rare), a couple of sand bar sharks and a huge bull shark. I think this year will have some awesome shark fishing results. We’re still not fully into shark fishing season but the unusual fishing conditions had us floating out some big shark baits since the sharks were really riled up with the big moon and super tides. Glad we did because we caught some monster sharks over the past few days.
The effects of the supermoon are still being seen with extraordinary tides, strange fish and unusual catches. As we normalize, look for great catches of mahi-mahi, sailfish, wahoo and cobia to be hitting the docks in the weeks to come. Good luck to everyone fishing out there this week. I’ll sea ya on the water.
Capt. Paul Roydhouse
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Wahoo and Kingfish
Nice Wahoo and Kingfish caught on our sport-fishing charter. There are a few nice fish biting on the troll. Let's go fishing! www.FishHeadquarters.com
Happy Thanksgiving!
Happy Thanksgiving to you and your family from all of us at Fishing Headquarters!
Windy Weather, Great Fishing!
The weather has been very windy this week. It’s kept a lot of the small boats home and even some of the big boats. We’ve been fishing every day though and let me tell you, the fishing (and the catching) has been great! Dolphin, tuna, sailfish and more are biting. The reason? the strong easterly wind. A hard east wind gets the fish chewing. It blows the seaweed and debris in closer to the shore and with it, the dolphin. If you can handle the waves, these are the conditions we wait for all year for the really good fishing. It also helps that many boats haven’t been fishing the past few days, making less competition for the fish.
Sportfishing Shared and Private Charters
Our sportfishing charters are our best all around trip and they are coming in with the most impressive catches lately. Trolling the reefs is working excellent for kingfish, blackfin tuna, bonito, barracuda and sometimes even a wahoo. The action on the troll has made it difficult for us to switch over and do anything different. First rule of fishing is never to leave fish to find fish. But once we’ve caught our limit of kingfish, we often switch over just for the heck of it to try some live baiting. This past week, sailfishing has been off-the-scale! September is the beginning of sailfish season here in Ft Lauderdale. This is the time of year all the big game fishermen come down to try their luck at catching the most sought after gamefish in the ocean… Sailfish. This sailfish season started off this past week with a bang. We had 3 days when the sailfish were jumping in the boat. One day we caught 6, one day 8 and 4 the next. It doesn’t get much better than that. It tailed off a bit over the past couple days but that’s how sailfishing is… it runs in spurts. We get a huge influx of sailfish for a couple days and they bite like crazy, and then they disappear for a few days. We’re only a few days into sailfish season but this sailfish season looks like it is going to be epic!
Night Anchor Trips 7:30pm
Night anchor trips are catching the highest numbers of fish out of the 3 trips aboard our party fishing boat. Our night anchor trip concentrates on fishing for snappers on the bottom. Lots of yellowtails are biting at night. Mangrove snappers are biting pretty good too. Usually on the full moon of September, the mangroves will spawn and bite extra good. Tomorrow night is the full moon, so we’ll see. A select few muttons are also biting and they’ve been big! The muttons we’re catching this week have averaged 6-12 pounds, which is a bit larger than our average muttons usually are. Sharks are also biting on some nights on our anchor trip. We catch a lot of Atlantic sharpnose sharks, Cuban night sharks, blacktips and nurse. These sharks aren’t the monster gamesharks that we catch on our sportfishing charters, but rather 3-4 ft in length and perfect for a good fight on 30 pound test. Our night anchor trips are catching the most fish by numbers of any of our daily $40 trips.
Great Action on All Our Different Fishing Trips this Week
Drift Fishing Trips 8:30am & 1:30pmOur drift fishing trips are doing well catching kingfish, bonitos and snappers. Bonitos seem to be hanging in longer this year than in years past. They are usually long gone by now, but there are still big numbers of bonitos on the reefs. Kingfish are mixed in with them. We’re catching the kingfish by either flat line fishing a ballyhoo/sardine or by jigging a whip jig off the bow of the boat. These techniques are also the best way to catch bonito and blackfin tuna. Snappers fishing is also going good. We’re getting some really big mutton snappers here and there on the afternoon trips. Decent numbers of yellowtail snappers are biting as well as the full array of grunts, porgies, triggers, jacks and other good eating bottom fish.
Crazy Good Deep Dropping Offshore Ft Lauderdale
We’re doing a lot of deep drop fishing off Ft Lauderdale this week and we’re catching some pretty cool stuff. With the surface water temperatures being so hot, it’s sometimes good to go deep this time of year. Snappers and groupers are the main bottom fish that everyone knows. They are biting good around the wrecks. Any wreck in 200+ feet of water should be holding some fish. Our main wrecks are all in the 200-400 ft of water range. Vermilion snapper are a deepwater snapper that we catch by dropping a chicken rig down to the bottom. A chicken rig is a rig with 4 or 5 hooks, each tied individually in a series and each baited with a chunk of squid. The point of the rig is to catch multiple fish on the same drop, or if the snappers are playing with and just picking at the bait, it gives you multiple chances to set the hook on the shy feeding fish. It’s a great rig for bottom fishing and sometimes yields big numbers of fish, very quickly. Vermilion snapper are great because they school up so if you find a spot where you catch 1 or 2, there’s probably a berry patch of them there and if you keep dropping in that area, you might catch a bunch.
Catch My Drift private 4 hour charters
The Catch My Drift is the queen of our fleet. She is an 85’ Gulfcraft and rigged and outfitted with every amenity we could think of. The Catch My Drift is very comfortable and the only Air-Conditioned party fishing boat in Ft. Lauderdale. She runs up to 20 knots and can get you out to the fishing grounds quickly. No other drift boat in our area comes close in comfort and speed. For hosting a convention, company meeting, treating your employees or for a large group private charter, she is perfect. Boat features fully enclosed and Air Conditioned salon with bench seating and table dinettes, upper deck access and seating for sunbathing or sightseeing, fishing 360 degrees around the boat and she can fish up to 70 people, clean Men’s and Women’s restrooms, live bait wells and a full galley inside. If you’re looking for a great day of fishing in the best comfort, try a charter on the Catch My Drift.
Mary B III private 4 hour trips
The Mary B III is a 55’ Gulfcraft. She is licensed to take up to 53 passengers. The Mary B III is very comfortable with seating around the entire boat, enclosed salon with dinette seating, clean men’s and women’s restrooms, large live bait well, beverages cooler and sport fishing capabilities. This boat is perfect for a day of Ft Lauderdale fishing and fun so treat your employees, entertain some clients, bring out the family or charter her for your large group of friends or bachelor party. The excuses to go fishing are endless, so give us a call and reserve the Mary B III for a great day of fishing.
Private Sportfishing Charters for Groups of 7 or More
Often we would get a group of 7 or more people in a group that wanted to do a private sportfishing charter. Unfortunately, most charter boats in Fort Lauderdale are only licensed to take a maximum of 6 people. The Mary B III has been specially set up to licensed to run sportfishing charters for groups of more than 6. The Mary B III is set up for all styles of sportfishing.
-Offshore and Reef Trolling
-Live Baiting/Kite Fishing
-Shipwreck Fishing/Deep Dropping
-Shark Fishing Day or Night Charters
The Mary B III is set up with fishing 360 degrees around the boat. She has a large comfortable cabin with dinette tables and bench seating. Aboard there are men’s and women’s separate, clean restrooms. The large fishing cockpit in the back of the boat can fish a big group of people. This boat is great to fish aboard, there is just so much room.
This is a great trip for corporate team building events, bachelor parties, large family fishing trips, birthday parties, and we even do non-fishing venues such as sunset cruises, intracoastal private group tours, and restaurant/hotel pickups.
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