Fishing Reports by Capt. Dean Panos

Hot and Cold - Hot and Cold That's the best way to describe the fishing so far this month. Although January is usually one of the best months for sailfishing so far it has been a bit slower than average, but that was the case last year as well and then the sail more...
Capt. Dean Panos - Miami

Another Year of Great Fishing - 1/2/14 It's hard to believe, but another year has gone by. I would like to thank all my clients, as this past year was one of the best years ever with a record setting amount of trips for the year. Not only did we have a lot of trips, but we al more...
Capt. Dean Panos - Miami

Tournaments, Sails and Swords - It's been a busy couple of weeks both with tournaments and with charters. We fished our first tournament on the new 43 SeaVee Walkaround. What a BEAST! It is basically a sportfisherman with a tall tower combined with the versatility of a center co more...
Capt. Dean Panos - Miami

First Cold Front - We have switched gears and are in sailfish mode now, but that doesn't mean we are not catching other fish as well. Since the last report, I have done two daytime swordfish trips and we caught swordfish on both trips. The first trip we had a very more...
Capt. Dean Panos - Miami

Slowly Switching Gears - For the past few months, the main emphasis has been on daytime swordfishing, and in the past two weeks we have done a few of those trips. As we are now in November and we are starting to approach winter, sailfish season is upon us and we are startin more...
Capt. Dean Panos - Miami

Swords are Biting! - Another two very busy weeks have gone by and I fished almost every day. We have had a variety of trips including another trip to Bimini for hi speed trolling for wahoo, quite a few daytime sword trips as well as some trips on the edge. Starting wit more...
Capt. Dean Panos - Miami

Better Late than Never - Luckily I have been staying busy as usual, although I did get to go up to fish for giant Bluefin tunas in Prince Edward Island and that was a blast. A good customer of mine invited me up there and we fished three days and caught a few giant bluefins more...
Capt. Dean Panos - Miami

Finally - The swordfish bite in South Florida pretty much year round, but the hottest bite is supposed to occur between September through November. Unfortunately nobody told the fish it was September and for the past two weeks the bite has been very very slow more...
Capt. Dean Panos - Miami

Back At It! - 9/9/13 We are back on track and since my last report I have been averaging 5 or so trips per week. We have done a variety of trips from evening snook fishing, trip to Bimini for a few days, some daytime swordfish trips and fishing on the edge. more...
Capt. Dean Panos - Miami

Ready For Action - August, especially the latter part of August with all the kids going back to school and families getting back on their schedule has always been the slowest part of our charter season, and this month is no different. Although we have been fishing 2to more...
Capt. Dean Panos - Miami