Monthly Archives: September 2007

Fort Lauderdale Boat Show-Oct 25-29 Shuttle Boat Advertising Opportunity

On a Sidenote:  Fort Lauderdale Boat Show has asked us to be the shuttle boat for the boat show this year again, and we’ve accepted.  We’re going to be shuttling everyone from the Bahia Mar section of the boat show … Continue reading

Capt. Andy Roydhouse
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Mixed bag of fish on today’s Fort Lauderdale drift fishing trip

Some big kings are biting out of Port Everglades on the Catch My Drift. We caught a smoker kingfish today, along with some big vermillion snappers. Some of the vermillions we were catching were 3-5 pounders. Continue reading

Capt. Andy Roydhouse
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Fort Lauderdale Fishing- Drift boats and sportfishing boats getting lots of fish

Haha, a pretty cool couple of days out here fishing Fort Lauderdale. Kings, bonitos, and snappers are biting good. Actually the snapper fishing has been really good. Yesterday on the drift fishing trip, we caught a whole bunch of yellowtail snappers, mutton snappers, a few vermillion snappers. The snapper fishing was needless to say pretty good. Continue reading

Capt. Andy Roydhouse
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Bahamas Fishing Charter last week on the Out of the Blue sportfishing boat

Last week we had a week long Bahamas Fishing Charter on our sportfishing boat the Out of the Blue. It was a fun trip and we caught a lot of fish. We went to Bimini which is the closest island in the Bahamas island chain, only 60 miles from Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Continue reading

Capt. Andy Roydhouse
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Boat Yard Work last week on the Catch My Drift

This was us in the boatyard this week. It was a tough job, but somebody had to do it. We fixed a cutlass bearing that had given us a vibration in the starboard side of the boat. We also straightened our shaft and took a few dings out of propeller. It was needed fix and I’m glad we did it. Continue reading

Capt. Andy Roydhouse
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Fishing Fort Lauderdale for whatever bites

Fishing was a little slow yesterday morning. We only caught one king and a few yellowtail snappers in the morning. I didn’t even get a picture of the catch, but there wasn’t much. It was tough fishing in the morning. But the afternoon was a lot better. The afternoon trip we caught all kinds of stuff. Continue reading

Capt. Andy Roydhouse
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Snappers, dolphin and kings biting on the afternoon fishing trip yesterday

The afternoon trips have been getting better these past few days. Last week we couldn’t get a bite on the afternoon trips, but the bite has been picking up the last 3 days. The afternoon trip 2 days ago we caught another nice dolphin, about a 14 pounder. The snappers have been biting good in the afternoons too. Put your bait all the way down and do some bottom fishing and you’ll get some nice yellowtails. Our drift fishing boat has been coming in with an average of a dozen yellowtail a trip.

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Capt. Andy Roydhouse
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Huge Bull Dolphin caught deep sea drift fishing on the Mary B III

We’ve been in the boat yard all week working on the Catch My Drift. We’re doing some work to her bottom and painting her up so she looks pretty. The Mary B III, our other drift boat has been running our trips this past week. We’ve been doing good too, lots of good action. Yesterday was a great fishing trip. Continue reading

Capt. Andy Roydhouse
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A Fort Lauderdale Sailfishing Trip

Then he jumps. The sailfish skyrockets out of the water, 20 yards from the boat. Bill first, then the body with the sail erect, until the fish comes completely out of the water and shakes his head from side to side. The fish falls back into the ocean with a crash of saltwater sprayed in all directions. Continue reading

Capt. Andy Roydhouse
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Drift Fishing good in the mornings this week

It was a great day of fishing off the coast of Fort Lauderdale today. We caught all kinds of fish ont he drift boats. Kingfish, bonitos, snappers were all part of the catch today. Continue reading

Capt. Andy Roydhouse
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