Happy New Year everyone!  2025 has started off red hot and it's been a ton of fun.  This is the time of year when I fish the natural channels that cut between the flats known locally as the finger channels but iI haven't done that much this month as clients have been booking me mostly for bonefish and other hard to catch species.  The bonefishing...

Wow! What an incredible day out on the water off the coast of Fort Lauderdale! Lady Luck seems to be sticking with us as we kick off 2025 with another unforgettable Fort Lauderdale fishing trip. The weather was beautiful—just a bit chilly which might be helping push some fish through. The highlight of the day? Battling a silky shark on a spinning...

What a wild start to 2025! Our bottom fishing in Fort Lauderdale on January 1st was nothing short of incredible. We pulled up some XL Vermilion Snappers—by far the biggest I’ve ever seen—along with a steady bite of  groupers which is rare off Fort Lauderdale. I’ve never seen the grouper bite so strong around here! The only downside? They went out...

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This week aboard the Marlin My Darling we’re navigating the winds and choppy seas that have characterized the past couple of weeks in Fort Lauderdale. Fortunately the fishing has been rewarding with mahi-mahi sailfish and sizable blackfin tuna making their presence known. While trolling along the reef has seen some slower action we’ve still encoun...

Wow wow wow what a way to wrap up 2024! As I mentioned in my previous report beginning of December fishing was a bit slow but it got shifted into high gear and it's been absolutely a blast. Fishing in Biscayne Bay went from good to incredible the second half of this month and fishing in the Everglades has been a ton of fun and very productive. In...

Flamingo / Key Largo I would like to wish a Happy New Year to everyone. As most people in the fishing business will tell you 2024 was a tough year we are hoping for 2025 to improve. It was a shame because fishing was spectacular from May thru our first cold front. It was nothing to catch a 100 Snook every day then throw in some Tarpon Redfish and...

I have to admit it's been a tough December so far well until this week.  The first week or so of December I was busy with charters and it was a grind.  The weather was good the moon phase was great and the water temps were perfect and yet fishing was a grind.  During this time we didn't catch and bonefish or snook and most of the trips were worki...

Finally the winds have calmed down and it’s back to deep-sea fishing off the coast of Fort Lauderdale. Today we had Kolton and 4 of his best friends down from Michigan to celebrate Kolton’s birthday! Everyone got to the boat this morning a little disappointed due to the Detroit Lions losing to the Buffalo Bills on Monday night football. A few beer...

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Today deep sea fishing Fort Lauderdale started out real good fishing light tackle and catching some nice rainbow runners and blue runners. We trolled the reef with 2 planner boards running about 45 feet deep and 3 baits on the surface looking for some king fish but the water was very clear and blue so the king fish bit was slow. So we brought in t...

Welcome back everyone to my monthly report. It's been a crazy busy month as I've been on the water almost every day and the last half of the month we've had absolutely perfect weather. However the fishing has been up and down. In spite of some struggles we've been able to make it happen on most of the trips  beginning with my trip with Barry durin...

November has been one for the record books here aboard the Marlin My Darlin. The month delivered exceptional charter fishing experiences boasting an impressive array of pelagic species including mahi-mahi blackfin tuna and a plentiful number of wahoo. It was certainly one of the most productive Novembers we’ve had in recent years complemented...

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Well folks I have to admit November weather has been highly disappointing. As I've mentioned before November weather is usually absolutely perfect but so far this month it's been pretty tough with high winds cloud cover and all around difficult conditions. In spite of the tough conditions fishing remains pretty solid and most of my fishing has con...

I’ve been fishing out of Key Largo and Flamingo If you read below It seemed like we might get some day with less wind. If it was calm I wasn’t fishing! The benefit of wind is it makes stronger current along the Mangrove points in the back country. There is a very good Snook bite in all of Whitewater Bay not giants but real good numbers. As of 11-1...

Wow November has not been like it typically is. Usually November we have absolutely perfect weather conditions but this November we have been beat up by some high winds. There were a few days where I was fishing in 25 to almost 30 mile an hour winds. However as of today the wind dropped and we started off with really calm conditions which was such...

It’s been a tough fall season for tarpon fishing in Fort Lauderdale the past few weeks with all the high winds but last night we had em’ goin for the entire outgoing tide. Ive been […] The post Light tackle tarpon! Night fishing in Ft. Lauderdale appeared first on Flat Bottom Charters.