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Number 1 rule in fishing: "Fish the condititions". The past week we've had some windy weather here in Islamorada, as well as some rain squals passing through. Most of the florida keys deep sea fishing boats still fished, but they followed rule #1. Just outside the reef edge in 200-300' of water the past few days we've had a color change (green water to blue water), with a very stong north east current. This is a fishing condition we see more often in the spring time where sailfish "tail" (surf down the waves with the top of their tail out), but Hey, every day is different. Most of the boats started the last few days anchored down bottom fishing, catching yellowtail snapper (which are some of the best eating fish in Islamorada), and after netting live ballyhoo they worked their way out a couple more miles to the current edge. I didn't see how all the boats did yesterday afternoon since we came in a little early, the weather conditions weren't the best with rain squalls passing through most the morning. We put together a good catch a yellowtail snapper in short amount of time, and I know all of the other boats did really well on Yellowtail snapper in the Morning. I heard the Catch 22 released 2 sailfish in the afternoon and lost a couple others. the days prior the boats limited out on yellowtail snapper, and then the Pretty Work released 4 sailfish and the Predator released 3 sailfish one afternoon. The few days prior to that there was a handful of sailfish released amongst the fleet, I know the Kalex released a couple, and the Gon Fishin V and Cloud Nine each released 1 and reported seeing more. Usually in July we are focusing on Mahi Mahi, but every day is different. There was some Mahi earlier in the week, but it wasn't as good as it should be. No boats went way offshore looking the last couple days for Mahi, but we'll see how the boats do today when they get in. No telling how long the "tailing" sailfish condition will last, (probabably not too much) and I think once the wind lets up a little more and the boats can cover some more ground offshore we'll see some catches of Mahi over the weekend and into next week.
Capt. Nick Stanczyk
This Fishing Report was submitted on 7/4/2013 1:00:25 PM by Seamus and last updated on 7/6/2013 1:00:25 PM.
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