Fishing Reports by Capt. Dave Kostyo

Fishing Report for Northern Miami-Dade County - Before to much time passes by and the information is not as useful, let me give everyone a quick report. Sunday, January 12th, catching bait at Government required some searching. We found no pilchards, but did find numerous schools of herring. W more...
Capt. Dave Kostyo - Miami

Fishing Report for Northern Miami-Dade County - Hot Tarpon Action!! More and more tarpon are flooding into the Haulover area. This is making for some great action. Live shrimp is the prime bait. I can't emphasize enough, that circle hooks will greatly increase your hook up ratio. And the an more...
Capt. Dave Kostyo - Miami

Fishing Report for Northern Miami-Dade County - Mixed Bag Offshore We left Greg Capra's home at 7:00 am for another fishing lesson aboard his boat. He had the bait catching process at Government Cut down pat, so it only took a short time before we were heading offshore with a live well full of more...
Capt. Dave Kostyo - Miami

Fishing Report for Northern Miami-Dade County - Starting the Year Off With Tarpon Lets kick off the new year with some evening tarpon fishing. Sounds good to me, and that is exactly what we did. Haulover Inlet is the place, live shrimp is the bait, Eagle Claw L190 5/0 circle hooks at the end more...
Capt. Dave Kostyo - Miami

Fishing Report for Northern Miami-Dade County - Last Fishing Report For 2002 You can tell that we are into the winter season. The wind has been blowing hard and the fronts are coming through at regular intervals. Warm clothing and strong stomachs are the order for the day. My last three tri more...
Capt. Dave Kostyo - Miami

Fishing Report for Northern Miami-Dade County - Tarpon Inshore or Mixed Bag Offshore, Fishing Is Good! As I am sitting here writing this report, another cold front is approaching the South Florida area. As is common, the winds have picked up and have been blowing 22 knots and better all mornin more...
Capt. Dave Kostyo - Miami

Fishing Report for Northern Miami-Dade County - Circle Hooks Work Their Magic Last night, we left Spinnaker Marina at 5:00 pm to do some tarpon fishing at Haulover Inlet. The wind was from the NNW @ 13-21 knots. The tide was incoming all evening and a beautiful full moon lit up the ocean. Ji more...
Capt. Dave Kostyo - Miami

Fishing Report for Northern Miami-Dade County - Winter Tarpon Have Arrived in Miami!! The question on the minds of many tarpon anglers is: are the tarpon in yet? I am happy to say that the answer is a big YES!! This evening we fished Haulover Inlet using live shrimp. We didn't see any s more...
Capt. Dave Kostyo - Miami

Fishing Report for Northern Miami-Dade County - Saturday was another bait fishing lesson, how to fish the baits, and knot tying. The herring were quite cooperative at Government Cut. Fishing from my customer's boat, he learned how to identify bait schools on his recorder. Once bait was accompli more...
Capt. Dave Kostyo - Miami