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It's almost mid March here Deep Sea Fishing in Islamorada and our offshore boats have been hard at it the past week. The majority of the charter boats are still focusing on fishing the reef, but a few boats have been venturing further "offshore" as well. The bottom fishing has been steady action including drifting for yellowtail snapper with a handful of nice mutton snapper mixed in. The yellowtail average 1 -2 lbs, but sometimes 3 - 4 lbers will give you a good run for your money on the light spinning outfits. The past few months overall we have seen some really nice mutton snapper, and the same thing is true now, with fish from 8 to 18 lbs. Out a little deeper on some of the wrecks there's been a fair bite of king mackerel, they do take patience sometimes, but if you wait it out there's been some really nice "smokers" up to 35 lbs. There's been a couple wahoo the past week while live bait fishing the wrecks as well, they are here and there, but you never know when it will be your turn for them. Inside the reef there's still also still a few schools of cobia, each day a boat or two will hit a school, some being keepers and some releases. The sailfish bite has been slow, but the Reel McCoy did release 1 today. The mahi aren't here in big numbers yet, but there's been a handful caught between the boats most days. In the Spring time the blackfin tuna usually get thick on the humps as well, and we are starting to see some, but they should only get better in the next couple of weeks. There's also been a few amberjack around the humps. Further offshore we were did some daytime swordfishing the last two days. We managed to get 1 bite each of our last 2 trips and kept one fish for dinner and released the other. We also did a little experimenting yesterday on the Bn'M II, taking Richard Stanczyk out in search of golden tilefish. We deep dropped for them, and we found some beautiful fish up to 37 lbs! It was an unbelievable fishing trip and still neat think that someone could fish for 60 years and still have species they haven't caught before! Give us a call at the marina office at 305 664 2461 and we'll set you up for your fishing trip!
Capt. Nick Stanczyk
3 monster golden tilefish caught aboard Bn'M II
Big 17 lb mutton snapper on Strictly Business
Pack of cobia with a 55 lber on the Gon Fishin V
Mahi Suprise on the Bn'M , also an amberjack and a few barracuda
Capt. Richard Stanczyk and Capt. Ken Spauling with a 37 lb golden tilefish
Happpy kid with a nice mutton snapper on the Fearless
Wahoo on the Redfish while live baiting
Bobby's first swordfish on the Bn'M II
This Fishing Report was submitted on 3/9/2013 6:46:52 AM by Seamus and last updated on 3/13/2014 6:46:52 AM.
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