Fishing Report for Miami, Florida

As the summer rushes by, before you know it swordfish season will be over on Bouncer’s Dusky 33. Have you made your reservations yet? We had a nice swordfish trip this week We got a 80 pounder and had 2 more bites under the full moon. The seas were calm and we saw the light on the leader swimming up to the boat. We even saw the fish swim past the sea anchor before we came tight for the fight. You have got to try this sport! Snook fishing at the inlet is good. We had 4 one night and 3 the next. This was in about 1.5 hours. The snook were up to 20 pounds. We also had several big jack crevalle and barracudas. We had 2 monster fish on that we have no idea what they were, but 20 pound tackle was too light to handle them. Day trips have been scarce. We had one Friday. We got a bunch hard fighting false albacore and a 100 pound spinner shark. The one shot we had at a sailfish jumped off. Today’s trip was extra interesting. In the morning we had several false albacore, a mutton snapper, a small king mackerel and a barracuda. When the action slowed down on the live pilchards and herring, we switched game plans. We caught some frigate bonitas and fished them live by slow trolling. 2 on the surface and 1 down 100 feet on the down rigger. In an hour we had 6 bites on the deep rig. This resulted in 3 king mackerel from 15 to 20 pounds. The strange thing was that we were fishing in 200 to 300 feet of water. Most kings here are caught in less than 200 feet of water. This is indicative of hot summer weather driving the fish deeper. We’re off to the Bahamas. Look for the results of that action next week, Bouncer