Fishing Reports by Capt. Dave Kostyo

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

Fishing Report for Northern Miami-Dade County - This week, we attempted to fish 3 times. I say attempted because one of the trips got cancelled due to a mechanical problem with one of the diesels on the big boat. Earlier in the week, the wind continued to come out of a NE/ENE direction @ 12-21 more...
Capt. Dave Kostyo - Miami

Fishing Report for Northern Miami-Dade County - Wind, wind, and more wind. That's how the week started out. A cold front was slow in approaching and had the wind out of a westerly direction for several days. Higher seas resulted in a cancellation of only one trip. We changed our intended plans more...
Capt. Dave Kostyo - Miami

Fishing Report for Northern Miami-Dade County - The month of April has started out with lots of wind from the easterly directions. Many of my first time clients have been experiencing motion sickness. The fishing has been running hot and cold. On some of the days when the conditions (blue water more...
Capt. Dave Kostyo - Miami

Fishing Report for Northern Miami-Dade County - On Wednesday while I was cleaning Alex Szilaygi's dolphin catch, he was awestruck at the sight of several tarpon feeding on the scraps. He wanted to catch one in the worst way. We planned on going Thursday evening, however, that was the day when th more...
Capt. Dave Kostyo - Miami

Fishing Report for Northern Miami-Dade County - March 26, 2003 Spring time dolphin fishing made a strong showing today. During this time of year, it is usually not necessary to make the long runs offshore that most anglers associate with dolphin fishing. All of our fish were caught in the 140- more...
Capt. Dave Kostyo - Miami

Fishing Report for Northern Miami-Dade County - Ted Sweeney, Jr. from Grosse Point Farms, MI was visiting his long time friend Scott Strawbridge in Ft. Lauderdale, FL. A fishing trip was in their schedule. They opted for an afternoon/evening trip so that they could fish both the offshore and ins more...
Capt. Dave Kostyo - Miami