Andrew Roydhouse

Fishing this week has been very good. Our best luck on the daytime trips has been for the vermillion snappers. We're catching them in 200-300' for water on chicken rigs baited with squid pieces. As soon as you hit the bottom your getting bites. Average size is 1 pound fish but alot fo them have been the biggest vermillion I've ever seen with quite a few 4-5 pounders coming in. Couple of our trips this past week we've caught over 100 snappers. Night time fishing has been good for yellowtails mostly in 45-65' of water, chumiming the water and using silversides for bait. I wasn't working the trip but I heard one night they caught 3 mutton snappers over 15 pounds and a few other smaller ones. Our big fish story this week again was our weekly swordfish trip on Friday night. This week only 1 swordfish but it was about 170 pounds, one of our biggest yet since we've been running our Friday swordfishing trip special. We caught it on the 275' bait with a dead squid as bait. We had a blue strobe light 15' up the 300# mono leader with a single 11/0 hook. It was a really nice fight on a penn 50W spooled with 80# test.

We didn't get many charters this week for sportfishing but still caught a couple really nice fish. Capt. Johann caught a 9 1/2' Bull shark that took almost 2 hours to get in. This fish weighed somewhere over 300 lbs. And I caught the first sailfish of the season for our fleet yesterday. It was a little guy, maybe 4 1/2 feet. He ate a pink seawitch on a planer bait of all things. I thought it was a barracuda when it was jumping until I saw the bill come out of the water. What a nice little suprise that was. About 100' of water 1 mile of Ft. Lauderdale. We got a quick photo and the fish swam away strong. About an hour later, we put the kites up and altough we didnt't get any bites, I saw 2 sailfish freejumping inside of where I was set up. Its a great sign, and I think the sailfish are going to show up a little early this year. They might even be here right now.

Anyway, hope to have you guys fishing with us, give us a call. We're always ready to go fishing. Until next week, cya on the water.

Fish Species: snapper sailfish sharks and swordfish
Bait Used: live and dead baits, squids and ballyhoo
Tackle Used: 50-80# penn internationals
Method Used: trolling drifting live baiting
Water Depth: 60-400'
Water Temperature: 82
Wind Direction: NE
Wind Speed: 4-10 knots
Guys just getting back from the swordfish trip
Guys just getting back from the swordfish trip


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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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