Fishing Report for Miami, Florida

It was a long slow week. The rain over the last few weeks had scared off all the anglers who normally fish in our area. Fortunately the rain has ended and we are now back to fishing steadily. Friday night we went swordfishing. We put out three live blue runners at about 8 PM. The first couple hours were slow, but just after 10 we hooked up on a 50 pounder. Well I should say we lassoed a 50 pounder as it had the bait and hook end of the leader wrapped around his tail, then the leader ran through his mouth and then the leader ran back to his tail where it was wrapped a couple more times. Coming in backwards was this just legal, 47 inch fork length, sword’s finish. It had fought hard and even jumped once, but several minutes of towing it forward through the water in an attempt to revive it failed to bring on any life. We ran back against the current and put the baits out again. Just minutes latter we were on again. This was a bigger fish this gladiator was about 120 pounds. The fight lasted about half an hour. With his capture we headed home with two very happy anglers. Sunday we had a birthday party on the boat for a 13 year old and his fishing buddies. The guest of honor got a sailfish and lost another, plus a 16 pound king mackerel and numerous false albacore. His guest got 2 kings, a bunch of false albacore and lost a sail. All the action was off Key Biscayne in 100 to 200 feet of water drifting while using live herring. This evening my brother-in-law and I went out to try some new methods to get swordfish. This is something you can’t do on your charters. This guy is the best for coming up for better ways to do things and tonight we were trolling squid on the downriggers and a “glow in the dark” lure on a weighted line. We put out one live runner for good measure. We fished for 3 hours and had two strikes on the squid, but failed to get a hook up. With everyone on board working this morning we had to quit at an early hour to allow some sleep time, but we will be out there experimenting again soon. What can be better than being out on Bouncer’s Dusky 33 fishing on a calm summer night with no blazing sun, a million stars and the chance that a swordfish may strike at any minute?