What a week we have had here at Lady Pamela II sportfishing. I am so excited, I am fresh off the boat and wanted to let you know what’s been going on. Today we hooked up 8 sailfish between two boats and landed a couple of big wahoos that our lucky anglers will be taking home for dinner tonight. We have also had a few king mackerel and some small mahi-mahi, but nothing really big to write home about. I have to say the shark fishing has been exceptional, with our anglers reeling in two hammerheads in the 6-8 foot range this week. The big catch though, was the massive tiger shark we hooked up earlier this week. This fish was estimated to be nearly 1,000 lbs. which is right at the top end of the size range for this species. Lady Pamela sportfishing has caught a few tiger sharks in the 500-lb. range off the Fort Lauderdale/Hollywood area, but nothing like this behemoth. The last time I saw a tiger shark this big I was a snot-nosed 13-year-old that was lucky enough to go fishing with famed Captain Lou Rabin aboard the Bewitched II out of Bimini. That fish was 15 feet long and weighed over 1,000 lbs. The fish we hooked up this week was just about as big, and just as exciting to catch. Fishing is always an adventure because every day is different. Ready to go? Give us a call! Tight Lines, Capt. David Ide

I am writing to bring you up to date on the exciting fishing action we have had off the Fort Lauderdale/Hollywood area. The last week or so Lady Pamela sportfishing has been catching a few king mackerel, bluefish, and wahoos in around 300 to 400 feet of water. A little further out, in **hidden content** feet of water, the shark fishing has also been good. We caught a variety of sharks including hammerheads, makos, and a thresher shark. Live-baiting from kites has produced more mahi-mahi than sailfish in the **hidden content** foot depth range. Small schools of 5-7 fish were having a great time chasing our surface baits under the kites. Out closer to 300 feet of water we caught 3 sails while trolling and caught a few more while slow trolling live bonitos. There has been a little bit of everything offshore and the action should keep up this week as a small cold front pushing through today. Tight Lines, Capt. David Ide Lady Pamela 2 Sport Fishing

It is hard to believe that December is knocking on the door, but the new month brings new fishing opportunities in the Fort Lauderdale/ Hollywood area. This time last year it seemed like we were hooking up at least two sails on every trip, as long as the seas were not too rough. This is the time of year for seasoned fishermen that do not mind a bit of choppy water to really load up on fishing action. Disturbed seas make the baitfish skittish and big predators hungry. Along with sails, I expect the wahoo bite to kick off in the next week or two. Kingfish, bonitos, and blackfin tunas are still around the reef edges, and we are picking them off with seawitch feathers tipped with bonito belly. The Lady Pamela sportfishing boats will troll these baits behind planers to keep them from skipping out of the water in choppy seas. Tight Lines, Capt. David Ide Lady Pamela 2 Sport Fishing

It has already been one year since I kicked off the Lady Pamela II sportfishing’s, fish of the week series, and my kickoff species was the venerable Atlantic sailfish (Istiophorus albicans), the most popular of the billfishes found in our waters. Coincidentally, one year later, here we are, and Lady Pamela II sportfishing participated in the Dust’em Off Sailfish Warmup Tournament this past weekend! The Warmup is a fun low-cost practice tournament for the many anglers that compete in the wintertime South Florida sailfishing tournaments. Anglers can fish anywhere from Miami to Palm Beach but we stayed out front of the Fort Lauderdale/ Hollywood area, just a couple of miles south of the Port Everglades outflow. There were numerous ballyhoo and other bait schools, with birds crashing the baits everywhere, and a nice south current running. Ideal fishing conditions. We caught a number of mahi-mahi around the bait schools in the morning, and caught our first sailfish around 9:50 a.m. He was a little guy, but he still counted in our fish total. We hooked up our second sail around 10:50 a.m. but he fought us for over an hour before we got an official catch and release. That was tough because we lost about an hour of additional fishing time. We kept baits in the water the whole day and the Lady Pamela crew fished really hard. It was a fun tournament, and we ended up with two sails, 10 mahi-mahi, and some other bites, including kingfish and blackfin tuna. Congratulations to the Double Diamond on winning first place with seven sailfish, fishing out in front of Pompano Beach! This rest of the Lady Pamela sportfishing fleet saw the same kind of action we experienced this weekend, and I expect the sailfish action in particular to be pretty consistent over the next few weeks. Give us a call and let’s go fishing! Tight Lines, Capt. David Ide Lady Pamela 2 Sport Fishing

The end of this week has produced some impressive wreck fishing for Lady Pamela II sportfishing, as we have been landing a bunch of grouper, including blacks, reds, and gags on the shallower shipwrecks. We have been targeting these groupers using live mullet, live pinfish, and goggleyes dropped over the wrecks and debris fields in the 200-foot range. Almaco jacks in the 20-30 lb. range showed up on one particular wreck, with our anglers boating a half dozen nice-sized fish. Contrary to most jack species, the Almaco is an excellent eating fish. The Lady Pamela fishing highlight this week though, was an afternoon trip that started offshore then moved inshore for some tarpon fishing. In a couple of hours offshore our anglers caught two nice gaffer mahi-mahis, one small mahi, three barracudas, and four kingfish. Not too bad! Next, we headed inshore to try to get our anglers a hook up with a tarpon. This group of anglers, from Orlando, Dallas, and Atlanta, have been out with us a few times trying to catch tarpon. Using live bait, we waited for the tide to change from outgoing to incoming. Once the incoming water started moving, we got our first bite, and it was a giant fish, estimated at between 120 and 135 pounds. This monster took several impressive jumps that we filmed on video, and within 20 minutes we had the leader and got a clean release. The mate set out the live baits again, and within 30 minutes we were fighting another tarpon in the 85-95 lb. range. This fish was smaller, but was much tougher, as it took our guys nearly an hour to get the fish to the boat for another clean release. Believe me, our out-of-town visitors were tired when we got back to the dock Tight Lines Capt. David Ide Lady Pamela 2 Sport Fishing

Lady Pamela II sportfishing had a busy September, unfortunately most of the time was spent preparing for, and recovering from Hurricane Irma, not fishing! The fishing in October though, has been very good, as we have been catching dolphin very close offshore the Fort Lauderdale/Hollywood area, in anywhere from 100 to 150 feet of water depth. We are catching these fish just about right on the reef edge, with many being caught around remnants of floating debris from Hurricane Irma. Because we have been fishing so close to the reef we have also been limiting on Kingfish almost every trip, and a few blackfin tuna have been finding their way into the fish box as well. Look for the wahoo to start biting as the water is beginning to get a little colder. Tight Lines Capt. David Ide