Fishing Report for Miami, Florida

What a day we had yesterday. I had two boys and their father out looking for dolphin (mahi-mahi). We ran and searched the seas out to 20 miles offshore and back without seeing a single sign of fish. No birds, weeds or debris. That fuel burned and time wasted we set our sights on a possible sailfish or some king mackerel. We ran south till we found good blue water and current inside 200 feet of water. This took us to off Elliot Key. We set up a drift in 200 feet and within minutes we had a sailfish on. Arron Delgado had his first sailfish catch! The next drift produced a king mackerel and several false albacore. Just after setting up our third drift we spotted birds working offshore of us in 300 feet of water. We ran out to them and were in the dolphin. They were hard to get to bite, but we managed to catch a dozen from 3 to 7 pounds. We released a couple of the smaller ones and the rest had reservations at a seafood dinner. The tricks that helped catch some of these dolphin were keeping the boat headed south at the same speed the fish were moving and using small live bait in the size range of the natural bait in the scattered weeds. Last night we had a snook trip. We had a rising tide and a baitwell full of pilchards. The fishing was slow while anchored in 2 places. I started drifting the area and the action turned on. As the evening progressed we had steady action on snook as well as a small black grouper and a barracuda. When we called it a night we had a total of 15 or 16 snook (depending on who’s count). They ranged from a couple 5 pounders through mostly 9 to 14 pounders and finally a beautiful 25 pound monster. The best action was before total darkness arrived. It is the heat of summer and Bouncer’s Dusky 33 is ready to show you some cool fishing. Get out for an evening of snook fishing or a night of spectacular swordfish- ing. Both of these fisheries become less available after the end of October. Let’s go catch ‘em.