Capt. Joe McGivern
May 7, 2006
Key Biscayne - Saltwater Fishing Report
Starting May off Right!!!
We started May off pretty well this year. We have made a few dolphin trips this week, and have had success on most of them. There have been lots of big dolphin in the last 2 weeks also. In the Grove Slam this past weekend, there were quite a few fish over 30lbs and a few close to fifty. We caught plenty of fish from 5-25lbs the past 2 weeks and a few tunas also.
Today I had the pleasure of fishing with a great group of guys from Cali. We ran out 15 miles looking for dolphin, but didnt find a thing. Clean ocean with only a few birds and scatterd weeds. We ran back down to fowey and set up a drift on the edge. We caught a kingfish and had a few cutoffs on the first drift. I ran out and started the second drift a little bit deeper. We hooked up with a sail right away. 15 minutes later we released the first sail of the day. We quickly ran back to the area we hooked the sail, and caught a nice amberjack. We set up our next drift caught a double header of African Pompano. Those are such beautiful fish, we released 1 and kept 1 since it was gut hooked and wouldnt live.
We set up our last drift hook a bonita immediatly, and as we were throwing the bonita back the front flat goes off and we are on with another nice sail. We fight the fish for 5 minutes until he jumps and gets wrapped up in the 20lb and breaks the line.
All in all it was a great day on the water with a great group of guys. I have lots of trips coming up, so i will post reports when i get a chance. I am heading to Bimini for the Mutton Spawn this weekend, so look for that report sometime next week. Also have a few sword trips coming up too. I have a few dates still open in may. Lets get out there and catch some fish!
Captain Joe Specializes in light tackle offshore fishing. He also takes swordfishing trips at night.Captain Joe is a tournament proven winning captain.
