Welcome to the O-Sea-D Fishing Team and Charters Website - your premiere source for serious South Florida deep-sea fishing charters. Located just north of Ft. Lauderdale, FL, we're in one of the world's top spots for swordfishing and sailfishing. Captain Matt White is a professional Tournament Fisherman that brings a truly higher standard of fishing and a personal commitment to reeling you up the big ones. Differing from your typical charter captain, Capt. Matt will run to where the fish are, utilizing all types of tournament tactics, including kite-flying, live-baiting etc. If you're really looking to catch fish, the O-Sea-D is the right boat for you.
We specialize in offshore fishing charters including evening Swordfishing Charters and Daytime Swordfish Charters or daytime sportfishing expeditions angling for Sailfish, Kingfish, Wahoo, Tuna, Snapper, Dolphin, Grouper, Snapper etc.

Daddy's Little Girl pulls her own weight (literally!) while fishing the 23rd Ladies Annual Fish-Off.

Weighing in with 46.9 pounds - 3 bonito, 1 kingfish, 1 mutton snapper and a sailfish - Jordan took Top Pee Wee Angler! Roughing it in 4-6 foot seas, this little champion really showed she's a chip off the old block.

DAYTIME SWORDFISH CHARTER
02/09/2008

with the boyzzzzzzzz................. Early start @ LHP marina for fuel by 7am. The long trek began due Southeast on an absolutely gorgeous South Florida "winter" day! Alright guys we are there, lets send em' down, hang the weight and "try" to begin the descent....&^%^%&% just lost the $%^$^&& weight!!!&^%^&%**^%.... Lose one rig one... That's not supposed to apply to the weight. Anyways, get er down and wait and drop and wait and drop, what seems to be an eternity was really only about 10 minutes and Todd and Jim says fish.... Hmmm, I didn't see a bounce. However, a minute goes by and the rod slowly doubles over and drag suddenly rips off the reel and slows, couple cranks and there she goes again, zzzzzzzzzzzzz, after a few minutes of tug "o" war the infamous hook pull... "SHARKED" Alright currents scrreaming need to make a run to the south lets go 15minutes of cranking can be awefully exhausting. 2nd drop yields a tap tap and no hook up.. Strike two. I open my phone and see 2 voicemails, boys we gotta run west for phone service, call the wife makes sure everythings ok "she's 9 months pregnant on our third child and due the 13th of Feb... I know, I'm dumb for going out there and risking her going into labor." Everythings fine??? I'm gonna kill whoever left me those voicemails, run 6 miles back to the east and reset...Alright same as last week, 2 drops two bites, simultaneous Jim and I say third times the charm.... Indeed it was!!!! I know this story is dragging so let me speed her up, Fish gets hooked and again screaming on the bottom for a solid 5 minutes without stopping her...... Damn Thresher again!!!!! Wait a minute, she's coming up, I didn't feel pulled hooks, winding for the next 6 to 7 minutes, "very exhausting trying to play catch up" 1800ft. mark, 1200ft. mark, 600ft. mark ooohhh there she is pulling a little kept gaining going straight up. Meanwhile, I have Mario on the Waterproof heading over to take a couple photos, let him know I need a little room, don't know where this fish is, somewhere up top with alottttaaaa line out, Mario takes a hard left "Thanks Bro" Get the fishto about 250 straight up and down and Finicky comes over to take a few shots, he hangs for about 10 minutes and realizes the fish isn't budging so he takes off and makes his set....I gain a hundred, fish would take a hundred, this went on for almost two hours when finally our opportunity is at hand. Todd's on the helm, I'm on the reel, Kenny's on the dart, Jim's on the gaff and Doug's on 2nd gaff. We're ready and she's a comin' in hot! Darting around under and beyond the boat and Todd's working the helm like a freaking magician, alright here's our shot boyzzz. Fish is twenty feet down and I say Kenny Throw it straight down lit up puple neon "PIG" Well, Kenny decides to take a couple practice swings like he's teeing off in golf. A throw and a miss by a couple of feet, I said #*&% it's ok Kenny DO IT AGaIN!!!! THROW IT!!!!! Strike two he, decides to ask for a mulligan Fish shoots under the boat and Todd maneuvers and says un uh not going there big girl.... Fish comes up and slaps the hull with her tail. Jim stick her, tail shot no prob, Doug gets a gaff in her and Kenny comes around like revenge of the nerds javelin throw and finishes her off.... Fish in the boat. Well, Todd and Jim third times the charm again!!! Ran west called the wife, hun we got a donkey are you in labor???? Nope, have fun.... Two more drops and not a bite, called it a sword day and tried dropping for a few tiles... NADA, to much current.

DAYTIME SWORDFISHING
01/24/2008

I've had a charter scheduled for weeks and we finally had the weather window to accomodate. With a light Southeast wind we set our sights due Southeast for a 25 mile trek with our sights on a broadbill in broad daylight.... We arrive at our location of a known productive area, first drop we get tight after 15 minutes of waiting.. Fish is peeling drag then decides to dart to the surface, come tight on the fish again with 600ft of line still out and the hooks pull... Bum deal. Leader is all tangled up in the mainline and the squid is mawled. Second drop with a bigger bait yields a bite before reaching bottom.. Fight the fish for 30 minutes and several jumps later..."Exhilirating" says the customers and 180lb. fish is boated. 2 more drops net 1 more fish that was released to fight another day.... As long as the seas cooperate we can definately put you on the daytime swords....

HYDROGLOW SWORDFISH TOURNAMENT
12/03/2007

Little late with the report been Last boat to sign up again, thanks Drew! Well, almost thanks.... Anyways, had 2 clients from Iowa and my mate Kenny. We made the long run with squidies and Gogs and set up on the 03 and the 49.3. Got the full spread out and waited 15 minutes when the 300 balloon sang a tune. Fortunately the fish was on the bentbutt so it never left the rodholder After clearing a couple of lines the fish started coming up when the long balloon sung that same tune.... Well, here we go with a double with the Iowans. Straight butt 80 sent the other gentleman Tim with the harness.... This fish seemed to be quite meatier. Few more grueling minutes for Mike and the 52" Swordy was in the boat, 1st fish of the tournament and 1 place out of the money... Knew she wasn't a money fish anyway, although the fish on the end of the double might be her!!! Long story short, after numerous rod switching and hearts pounding the clients opted to try and get the fish up.... After 2 hours I put Kenny on the rod to turn up the heat.. Fish did not want any of that and didn't stick his nose above the thermocline yet opted to descend at warp speed. After taking 500 yards of line within 1 minute note"this after battling straight up and down with a few good runs for 2 hours" I clipped the 80 with another 80, just about when she was gonna go splash........ SLACK!!!! SH!T, REEL......REEL...... Nothing...... Please come back without a hook, puhlease........ Sure enough, it appears as if Mr. Mako has elluded wants again..... Thankful there wasn't a hook.... That definately passed some time of a relatively slow night. Reset around 9:30 and nada the rest of the night.... Had both bites on ribbonfish, unfortunately I only brought two! The positive of the night was that Mike and Tim had the time of there lives....

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