Andrew Roydhouse

Today was another great deep sea fishing day when we caught an over 60 pound warsaw grouper. What a beast, this fish was a monster. We thought we had on a huge amberjack or perhaps a shark, this thing was fighting so hard. When we started to get him near the surface, the fighting started to lessen and the line started planning upwards. We knew it was a big grouper. When the fish came up, he was fully bloated with all the gas from rising so quickly. The same thing would happen to a diver if he rose from such a depth rapidly without giving his body time to expel all that extra volume of gasses. Groupers seem to be more prone to the "bends" than other fish we catch from that depth. Amberjacks for instance, can fight the entire way up to the top without getting a buildup of gasses.

This is a great season for groupers, and a great year for them as well. We're catching good numbers of black, gag, red and warsaw groupers this year. This week alone, we've caught 3 monster warsaw groupers, 2 big blacks, 2 gag groupers and I don't know how many red groupers (on our daytime drift and night anchor fishing trips). Our drift fishing trips are also crushing the yellowtail snappers out there lately. Fort Lauderdale bottom fishing is great with a lot of variety on grouper, snappers, a few cobia and sharks of all species. A lot of good bottom fishing action these days. Good luck fishing everyone, I'll sea ya on the water!

Tight Lines,

Capt. Andy Roydhouse

754-214-7863

www.FishHeadquarters.com

Fish Species: warsaw grouper
Bait Used: live blue runner
Tackle Used: penn 80 International
Method Used: Deep Dropping
Water Depth: 325ft
Water Temperature: 80F
Wind Direction: east
Wind Speed: 10knots
Warsaw grouper caught deep dropping in Ft Lauderdale
Warsaw grouper caught deep dropping in Ft Lauderdale

Great deep dropping catch in Ft Lauderdale
Great deep dropping catch in Ft Lauderdale


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Andrew Roydhouse

About The Author: Captain Andrew Roydhouse

Company: Fishing Headquarters

Area Reporting: Fort Lauderdale South Florida

Bio: I am a 3rd generation fisherman out here off Ft. Lauderdale and have been fishing proffessionally all my life. My company, Fishing Headquarters, runs daily drift fishing trips, sportfishing privae and shared charters, night time swordfishing trips, and any other type of fishing you would like to try.

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