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AUGUST 31st to SEPTEMBER 6th 2013 Overall Catch Success Rate All Species Combined 92% Numbers at a glance: Billfish 92% Dorado 88% Tuna 14% For those of you asking about the missing fish reports they will be updated shortly for our archives –

The Sailfish action has remained strong over the last week with the majority of our fish caught by sight casting to fish which are chasing schools of Ballyhoo along the shallow reef edge. There have also been plenty of Dolphin up in this shallow wate

Slick calm weather on Tuesday for Forrest Seal and crew. Very slow fishing not many bites to go around in the am. Another boat found some smaller class bluefin on top out in the deep East of the inlet and we made the run up there. Fish were very fini

Overall Catch Success Rate 62% Catches at a glance: Marlin 30% Dorado 21% Tuna 4% Small Game 45% BILLFISH: This week was the poorest so far of the year overall for fishing. A full moon combined with very windy weather and a drop in water temperature

OFFSHORE- Weather early this week kept reports a bit slim; but things are looking up nicely for the weekend! Dolphin reports remain fair with fish scattered it seems from 300-600' of water. South winds should help get some more dolphin pointed no

Last trip before Christmas Day (and a day off) I had a regular customer who likes to fish by himself. I guess that way he gets to catch all the fish. We went to a reef called Western Dry Rocks to get live ballyhoo baitfish to slow troll along the re

  It’s holiday sail time!   Yes folks it’s that time of year when the sailfish are making merry on the reef gobbling ballyhoo with abandon.   And their friends – king mackerel dolphin and blackfin tuna – are joi

As I mentioned in a previous post one of the great things about fishing out of Port Canaveral and Cocoa Beach is the great variety of fish you can catch. Last week we caught king mackerel cobia dolphin (mahi-mahi) and sailfish. On one trip we caught

March 8th to 14th 2014 Overall Catch Success Rate All Species Combined 97% Numbers at a glance: Billfish 85% Dorado3% Other 20% Billfish: Fantastic marlin action was experienced by most boat throughout this past week as boats regularly had multiple

Arlen of Tex’s Tackle reports that more dolphin seem to be moving into the 20-30 mile range off Wrightsville and boats are putting together some solid catches while dragging skirted ballyhoo in the area. The king mackerel bite has also been exc

Ron of Island Tackle and Hardware reports that blue water trollers are still finding some excellent dolphin action at local Gulf Stream hotspots like the Steeples and Same Ol’ Hole. Most are falling for ballyhoo paired with skirted trolling lur

June 29th to July 5th 2013 Overall Catch Success Rate All Species Combined 99% Numbers at a glance: Billfish 95% Dorado 28% Tuna 28% Small Game 8% BILLFISH: This has been the best week of the year so far for fishing; “wow!” is all we can s

Monday 6/28/15 Captiva fishing catch of the day! Ballyhoo. Captiva fishing Monday 6/29/15 ballyhoo great as cut bait for salt water fishing!  For more photos and/or fishing reports from our other Captains’ boats from other marinas  p

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

6 sailfish today. On live ballyhoo near the edge of the reef. Great fishing tons of fun!

OFFSHORE- Nice mixed bag of action offshore this week. Dolphin fishing picked back up this week with most of the better dolphin reports coming from out a little deeper (800' plus). Trolling bonita strips squid and small ballyhoo will work for the

November 8th to November 15th 2013 Overall Catch Success Rate All Species Combined 94% Numbers at a glance: Billfish 86% Dorado 55% Tuna 8% Wahoo 12% BILLFISH: Wow a fabulous week for billfish which is good and bad bad for those hoping to catch tuna

Fishing Fort Lauderdale on Happy Day Today with Capt. Zsak   Mark Earle along with his son, Gus, and friend, Ollie, from England chartered the Happy Day Today along with the Topshotfishing team to do some deep sea sport fishing in Fort

PANAMA CITY OFFSHORE AND INSHORE Fishing on natural bottom spots and around the outer edges of wrecks for Red grouper has been pretty productive. Generally speaking by targeting a “natural bottom” and around the edges of a wreck you can ex