OU Ft. Lauderdale - Current Fishing Reports, Updates, and Information

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Captain Joe McGivern reports 10 out of 11 sails, 15 kings and 28 dolphin just on the first part of the trip. Then caught more kings & dolphin when they went back out after having to grab some more bait. Great day!

Here's his audio report.

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Capt Joe called in and had a great day today. Reported catching about 50 Dolphin, keeping a nice bunch for the coolers, letting plenty go. Fish were up to 20 pounds and he ran about 20 miles or so offshore to find them!

With the North wind that's starting to blow, he's heading south tomorrow looking for the sailfish to start biting...Stay tuned!

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Holiday Sailfish and Swordfish!

Well sailfishing has been spotty up and down the South Florida Coast. We have had some good days and some really slow days.We had a good day today where we went 3/5 on sailfish just north of Ft. Lauderdale. Yesterday we made a quick run to the Bahamas and caught some nice Mahi Mahi and a few Wahoo. A few days ago we had 2 good trips where we caught lots of Mahi Mahi and quite a few sails! With the cold weather we are having now and the strong north winds we are expecting to have a great week this week! There should be lots of sailfish around and the tarpon should start to show up also!

We did 1 swordfish trip last week and had 4 bites landing 1 fish around 90lbs. Looks like they are finally starting to bite also! The night time and day time bite has been really strong with some really big fish being caught. I am looking forward to this week!

Stay Tuned!
Joe McGivern

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Things seem to be getting back on track here, atleast to some extent after the cold streak we've been experiencing.

It's been pretty snotty the last couple days, but the temperatures are back up into the low 80s and the wind is out of the E/SE. The sailfish are starting to respond pretty well. Yesterday we had 3 of 5 out of Lauderdale flying the kites on our 45 Cabo on a full day, and Capt. John Oughton just called in on his way in from a short morning trip. Both our Evans and Whiticar fished here out of Islamorada this morning and from the sounds of it they each had a decent number of shots and released 3-5 apiece. John commented that if it wasn't so damb rough they'd probalby have had a few more. Bait continues to be tough in the morning, and ballyhoo is the name of the game. Seems like the conditions are right and tomorrow should be even better.

[OU Sportfishing]

Fort Lauderdale is still the place to be for sailfish. The bite remains strong along with kingfish, bonita and dolphin. Check out Captain Joe McGivern's audio report here!

[OU Sportfishing]

Fort Lauderdale report - Sailfishing is starting to drop off but the Night Swordfish Bite has turned on! Also, great reef fishing for kings, bonitas and sharks. Check out Captain Joe's audio report here