By Capt. Paul Roydhouse
Grouper season opens May 1 and I am ready to start catching some of these groupers that are stacking up around all the wrecks these days. We’ve been releasing all the groupers over the past 4 months and they are really getting thick out there. May is an awesome season for fishing in Fort Lauderdale. Snappers, groupers, cobia, tilefish and more, are all over the bottom and biting great. We spend a fair amount of time fishing the bottom this month for the plethora of snapper and grouper action that is available. But don’t forget to keep a surface bait set and ready for a school of dolphin that may swim up on you. Dolphin are still scattered along the edge of the Gulfstream, as well as a few blackfin tuna and even a rare sailfish. In May, you never know what you may catch.
May is the start of our major drift fishing season for kingfish. The kingfish bite declines during the winter months, but regains momentum in late spring and summer. Schools of kingfish and bonitos are moving in onto the reefs, revitalizing them with new fish. They will be here in good numbers for the next 5-6 months, until the temperature starts to get cool again. Kingfish travel in schools, as do bonito. When one or two rods get kingfish bites, be at the ready for every rod on the boat to get hit. It happens fast out there. Fishing has been described as hours and hours of boredom, interrupted by a few moments of chaos. That’s the excitement of fishing and that’s what the fishing is like in May! Good luck out there fishing everyone, I’ll sea ya’ on the water.
Capt. Paul Roydhouse
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