Southbound
Catch of the Day

The conditions are still good and the dolphin fishing is still excellent on the waters south of Key West. We have a strong east current, probably associated with the Gulf Stream being in close. This, along with a strong east wind has caused the dolphin fishing to...

Well, this is a bit weird, I had the same people fishing with me Yesterday and today. We had good dolphin fishing both days. Our catch was very similar both days and the customer wore the same “fishing clothes” on both days. So the picture from yesterday,...

It has been a relatively calm May this year. The wind in May is usually pretty strong as we transition from our “winter” weather to our warmer, more humid summer conditions. We expect to see a strong east wind. But this year, we really haven’t had...

We only had a half day trip today. That is 4 hrs from the dock to dock. My customers were more serious fishermen, but because of budget and time constraints, they only booked a half day. Normally, I would suggest a longer trip for more serious fishermen. They...

We had a full day today and my customer wanted to go offshore and look for “Something” big. We headed South hoping to find some good fish. There have been a few good fish around, but you have to cover a lot of water to find them. There has been an...

We only had a half day trip today. So we stayed inshore and fished along the color change. We did manage to catch a big king mackerel inshore. The fish was 36 lbs and screamed out line on the deep troll. At first, I thought it was going to be a wahoo. We hooked it in...

Our main plan was to go dolphin fishing today, but we started out inshore looking for a couple of quick bites. A couple of my customers had never caught a barracuda. So I went to one of the wrecks near Key West. We slow trolled around for a bit to see if we could...

Offshore fishing has been tough. It makes it tough to decide what to do in the morning. Do we go offshore and fish for Mahi, wahoo, and tuna? or should we play it safe and stay inshore and try to catch some bottom fish for dinner? Sometimes, especially if we have a...

I probably should not admit this. Especially on my website, but I think we cheated today. We caught a nice Black Grouper today. The size was legal. it was 28 inches. 24 is the legal minimum. That part wasn’t cheating. Grouper season is open. It opened May 1st,...

We had a full day again today and we decided to spend at least part of the day looking for Sailfish. We stopped to catch some live bait first thing in the morning and I’m glad we did. So we spent part of the day trolling and live baiting for sailfish There was a...

There has been a good bite of Sailfish on the color change. But Sailfish are catch and release and the customers I’ve had wanted fish for the table. So I’ve been offshore looking for Dolphin and Black Fin Tuna. but offshore fishing has been pretty up and...

I made a comeback today. This time of year, normally we are looking for a good day dolphin fishing. Dolphin fishing was pretty slow yesterday. Conditions looked good. We had beautiful blue water, relatively calm seas and lots of sargasso weed to work. It didn’t...