-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
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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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.
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.
$850 for up to 30 people, $15 per person over 30 up to a maximum of 45 fishermen.
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.
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.
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.
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