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We've had great weather here the past few days on our florida keys offshore fishing charters. There's been some incredible catches of mahi offshore, and some action packed reef fishing as well. The Islamorada mahi fishing in May was decent the last two days, but really good for most of the boats a few days back. It takes patience to find the fish, and then to stay in the area as you wait and look for more opportunities. Trolling has been producing some of the fish, and birds and debris have been the ticket to the rest. There was quite a few decent size fish in the 12 - 25 lb range. The Relentless had a great catch today with 30 fish, including 6 fish from 10 - 18 lbs and the rest were nice sized schoolies (3-5 lbs). On the Bn'M we had a dozen mahi from 3 - 10 lbs, and then came back to the reef and caught some lane snappers for dinner and released some barracuda and crevalle jacks for action. The Strictly Business did a 1/2 day reef fishing trip today and had a nice catch of yellowtail snapper and then a keeper black grouper and a keeper gag grouper. Yesterday the Kalex and 9 nice size mahi from 12 - 25 lbs, The Bn'M had 10 from 12 - 20 lbs and a 15 lb wahoo, The Relentless had 8 nice fish, including a 35 lb bull and a wahoo, The Reel McCoy had some schoolies and a few big fish, including a moster 46 lb bull! The Catch 22 had 7 decent fish and a couple schoolies, and the Strictly Business had 6 nice fish and a handful of schoolies. The Fearless stayed on the reef and had 25 yellowtail snapper and then fished a couple wrecks and caught some hard fighting amberjacks up to 40 lbs. Now a few days ago was one of the best days of mahi fishing we have seen in a while. The Catch 22 led the way with 18 nice from 12 - 30 lbs, The Gon Fishin V had a dozen from 12 - 20 lbs, The Relentless had a good catch too including another big Bull weighing in at 46 lbs! The funny thing was on the Bn'M we started out looking for mahi, and wound up losing a few and then gave up and headed back to the reef. Looking back I wish we had a little more patience and stuck it out, but we wound up having a great afternoon on the reef catching 25 yellowtail snapper and then 20 nice vermillion snapper. The day before that we did some daytime swordfishing on the Bn'M II and had a few strikes, hooking two fish, but unfortunately pulled the hooks on both of them. The bite seems to be picking up and I think the next few months we will see some nice broadbills. Capt. Andrew ran the Bn'M on the 16th and caught and released a nice blue marlin, which is always a nice surprise since we don't catch many of them, but you always have a shot at a billfish when you're trolling along! The weather this coming week looks great as well, so I would expect the boats to still put together some nice catches of mahi (more than likely we will start seeing a lot more schoolies soon), with a few of the nicer fish mixed in, and there should still be the occasional wahoo, blackfin tuna, and the reef should provide plenty of snapper. Call and book your next islamorada fishing trip at Bud N' Mary's Marina soon! 305- 664-2461
Capt. Nick Stanczyk
This Fishing Report was submitted on 5/16/2013 2:51:10 AM by Seamus and last updated on 5/20/2013 2:51:10 AM.
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