Staying Consistent

Hello everyone Capt. Vinnie here, first id like to say sorry for the delay in reports we have been super busy with a lot of sport fishing charters and we are grateful for everyone of our wonderful customers that have come out deep sea fishing with us over the last week. Now for the report.... Fishing this week in Fort Lauderdale has been good some days and some days it has been slow and a lot of the reason it has been slow is due to the seaweed, I know that sounds like an excuse but there are days that it is everywhere and it makes it very hard to troll, live bait, and bottom fish. The main problem is it gets on your line and your lures and that makes endless job for crew to keep baits clean in order to fish properly. But on a side note the days the seaweed is light and we can fish the way we know how we have been catching a good amount of fish. Trolling on the reef has been productive for species like kingfish, bonito, and a very few summer time sailfish if your lucky. Inside of 150 feet of water is where most of this action takes place. Trolling with surface baits and deep baits fished with planers has been the best way to get bites, a lot of our bites have been coning on our deep baits specially when the sun is up and the temps are hot, the cooler water below the surface seems to keep the fish more active. Just outside of the reef if the seaweed is light there has been blackfin tuna and also the predators that eat them being wahoo. Depths around 200 feet on out to 400 has been the most consistent for these type of fish, and in my personal opinion the afternoon specially late afternoon have been best for tunas. For the wahoo early morning seems to be the ticket but outgoing tide with a north current has been the perfect recipe for wahoo, pretty much everything has to line up right in order for them to be around and hungry. Other then that this week we had some really good bottom fishing. We had some great catches of snapper, mostly vermillion snapper and a few nice yellow eye snapper too. Most of the rock piles around 240 feet have been productive but some days you have to hit a few spots to put a catch together. August is a great month for snapper fishing out here in Fort Lauderdale so stay tuned in future reports for more snapper action. This week please be sure to check out some of the great photos of some recent catches that were caught while out on our deep sea fishing charters including a summer time sailfish and some really nice wahoos. Also give us a like and follow on social media platforms like facebook and instagram at Ybnormalsportfishing for daily fishing reports and content. On the horizon we have a busy week, I predict fishing to stay very consistent through the rest of July but i'm hopeful for light seaweed, but sometimes I don't think we can have it all. Either way we will continue to grind away as we do and try to show our guests a great experience out on the water. There still is a fair amount of available dates for the rest of July so if your thinking about heading down to South Florida and looking to get out fishing we would love to show you a great time on the water, look up YB Normal servicing Fort Lauderdale, Dania beach, and Hollywood beach for deep sea fishing charters! more later...... Capt. Vinnie

Hey there Capt. Vinnie again from the command center to bring you another great deep sea fishing report. This week has been a busy week with lots of great clients from all over the world due to the world soccer cup that is going on right now, and we are very grateful for all of our great customers. Fishing this week has been good for the most part some days better then others which is pretty standard right now, one thing that has been making it really tough is the seaweed! Which sounds crazy to blame a slow day of fishing on something like that but i'm here to tell you it is a real thing and it is a real problem somedays. The biggest problem with the seaweed is the fact that it makes the crew have to work four times harder then normal, specially the first mate. His job is to keep our baits clean and days when the weed is very bad that becomes and all day job that never ends. Another problem is the fact that the seaweed may dictate where you can and can't fish. But we are professionals here and we are good at our job and the old expression of persistence pays is true and I can attest. Grinding it out is the only thing we can do and the days the weed is light best believe I take full advantage. For the fishing this week we have had a variety of a few different species biting, early in the week we landed a very nice wahoo just before the full moon. Depths around 200-300 feet have been producing a few blackfin tuna if you find an area weed free. Other then tunas in the 200 depths there has been some really nice sized barracudas. This week we did have a flurry of sailfish which is pretty rare for the month of June, but always a great fish to catch no matter what time of year. Funny story we had some great clients from Tennesssee that wanted a sailfish this week and I told them it was unlikely just for the simple fact they are not around and low and behold we did catch a sailfish, goes to show no matter how many years we have been doing this you just never know what your going to catch. Bonitos have been around but not in the numbers that they normally are this time of year but everything has been a little late on there migration patterns this year so more than likely they are not far behind schedule. We have been having some really blue water this week so kingfish have been somewhat a little difficult to find some days, but the days the water is dirty it is worth trying for them because there has been a few around and they have been nice sized. Moving offshore there has been a few mahi mahi scattered around, depths around 800 feet seem to be the best place to be looking but the mahi have also been on debris and seaweed patches, a lot of the mahi we have been fisning have been in a school so if you happen to get lucky and hook a few it's important to make sure you have some other bait to cast to them just incase. You can go from catching 3 mahi to possibly catching 20 mahi if your ready for them when a school comes up following your fish. Average size on the mahi have been 5-10lbs. The mahi were hot earlier in the week but faded a little as the full moon approached but we tend to see slow fishing all around right on the moon for all species, best times are just before and just after. Being on the backside of the moon I have high hopes for this week and hopefully some great new pictures of great catches for next weeks report. This week please take a minute to check out some of the great photos of some recent catches that were caught on our deep sea fishing charters and remember to give us a like and follow on social media platforms like Facebook and Instagram at Ybnormalsportfishing for daily fishing content. Coming up for the rest of the month of July availability is good for deep sea fishing charters, if your heading down to Fort Lauderdale and looking to get out to do some fishing check out YB Normal, servicing Fort Lauderdale, Dania, and Hollywood beach, we would love to show you a great time on the water...... more later..... Capt. Vinnie

Hey everyone Capt. Vinnie here with another great deep sea fishing report. Just like the title states summer fishing heating up that's exactly the theme right now, although the temps are hot the fishing is just as hot right now too. On the reef we have been seeing a good amount of bonito while trolling, even though there not the best eating fish they are a great fighting fish as well and a key role in catching everything else. They make great strips baits for trolling and great bottom fishing baits for snapper. Other then bonito there has been a few kingfish mixed in when the water is dirty, for some reason kingfish prefer the dirty water over clean. The kingfish have been good sized around 10lbs and have been biting best on our deep lines fished with planers and fresh bonito strips. Moving a little deeper off the edge the blackfin tuna have been biting pretty good earlier in the mornings as well as in the afternoons too, the key to getting more tuna bites right now is increasing your trolling speed to around 8 to 9 knots. The faster speeds let you cover more water and help entice the bite, the old expression "speed kills" is true trust me. Blackfin tunas have been decent sized but the bigger ones have been biting better in the late afternoons just before the sun goes down. Further offshore mahi have been somewhat plentiful right now but the only downside is the size, June usually yields strong numbers of mahi mahi off the Fort Lauderdale coast but sizes vary, I truly believe in the next coming months we will start to see more keeper size then undersize. If your heading offshore the best thing to look for is birds or floating debris, but there has been a lot of seaweed as a good starting point. Last but not least bottom fishing this week has been good when the weather allows, we have a great photo of a beautiful cubera snapper that we caught while fishing a deep ship wreck with live bait, that was probably the last fish that crossed my mind that we were going to catch but hey that goes to show you that you just never know and even the professionals get surprised sometimes. The vermillion snapper bite has been good as well on bottom spots around 300 feet of water, you want to use fresh bonito over squid because the bonito is going to stay on the hook a lot better and give you more chances to catch a fish. This week please be sure to take a minute to check out some of the great photos of some catches we had while out on our deep sea fishing charters out of Fort Lauderdale and remember to give us a like and follow on social media platforms like facebook and instagram at "Ybnormalsportfishing" for daily fishing content. Coming up for the rest of the month in June i would say the fishing is going to remain consistent and im hopeful for larger mahi on the horizon as well as a few wahoo showing up on the next full moon. Even though the temps are hot we have ice cold air conditioning aboard so there is no excuse not to come out fishing with us. Flat calm weather and great fishing all that's missing is you, so if your heading down to Fort Lauderdale and looking to get out deep sea fishing look up YB Normal serving Dania beach, Hollywood, and Fort Lauderdale. More later... Capt. Vinnie