Fishing Reports by Capt. Dave Kostyo

Fishing Report for Northern Miami-Dade County - FINALLY, Dolphin in the Haulover Area The GOOD NEWS is that the dolphin have finally shown up in the Haulover area. It actually started on Monday and has been fairly consistent since. One day they are in the 400-500 foot range, the next they are more...
Capt. Dave Kostyo - Miami

Fishing Report for Northern Miami-Dade County - Continuing on from my last tarpon report on June 3rd, we once again went tarpon fishing on the evening of June 4th. What a difference a day can make. On the 3rd, we worked hard to get one tarpon strike and one tarpon caught. The evening of the 4th more...
Capt. Dave Kostyo - Miami

Fishing Report for Northern Miami-Dade County - Offshore, the blue/green edge has been in as close as 85' and the current has been off the scale. When you put these two factors together, it means good sailfishing. Despite these good conditions, the word on the dolphin season has been a bit disap more...
Capt. Dave Kostyo - Miami

Fishing Report for Northern Miami-Dade County - Weather has been playing an important factor in when and how long we have been able to fish without getting wet and safety from lightning. Fishing in general has had its ups and downs in the area from Haulover Inlet south to the Monument Buoy just s more...
Capt. Dave Kostyo - Miami

Fishing Report for Northern Miami-Dade County - Beautiful weather, light winds, and calm seas best describe the past week in the Abacos. We caught yellowfin and skipjack tuna, dolphin, barracuda, and a white tip shark. As for the marlin fishing, in three days of trolling, we had one fish make a more...
Capt. Dave Kostyo - Miami

Fishing Report for Northern Miami-Dade County - Fishing off the Miami area between Key Biscayne and Haulover Inlet has been very good this past week, so lets get to the day by day results. Saturday (5/3) was an afternoon/evening trip. Catching bait has been very easy at Haulover Inlet, so with more...
Capt. Dave Kostyo - Miami

Fishing Report for Northern Miami-Dade County - Wednesday's rainy and windy weather had us postponing the evening tarpon charter until Thursday night. When we arrived at Government Cut on Thursday (5/1), we were greeted by lots of rolling tarpon. As is often the case, however, they had lockjaw. more...
Capt. Dave Kostyo - Miami

Fishing Report for Northern Miami-Dade County - Rain Rain Go Away. It is only human nature that when it hasn't rained for a while, we want it to. Then when it finally does rain, we want it to stop. The tarpon charter I had scheduled for this evening has been postponed till tomorrow evening. Th more...
Capt. Dave Kostyo - Miami

Fishing Report for Northern Miami-Dade County - Take your pick, offshore or inshore, the action is great. Offshore, the dolphin have shown up as well as the blackfin tuna. There are still plenty of kingfish for those seeking them. Inshore, the tarpon action has been hard to beat for the most pa more...
Capt. Dave Kostyo - Miami

Fishing Report for Northern Miami-Dade County - Good Kingfish & Tarpon Action Let's get straight to the fishing action. Saturday evening (4/19) Frank and Sarah McIntire were out for a tarpon trip. On their last trip with me, Sarah caught her first sailfish and their two sons each caught a do more...
Capt. Dave Kostyo - Miami