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Fishing Report for Northern Miami-Dade County
Capt. Dave Kostyo
January 16, 2003
Miami - Saltwater Fishing Report
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. We put our first baits in the water at 1:00 pm. There had been a good kingfish bite straight out from Government during the morning hours. We worked the 90-200 foot depths with no results. Moving offshore a bit, a large weedline in 275 feet gave us some dolphin action. The fish were in the 4-5 pound class and we kept 5 and released several.
Tuesday evening, January 14th. Time to get nocturnal and catch some tarpon. During the incoming tide, we caught 1 fish at the Inlet. Moving down the beach, we went 1 for 2. Back to the Inlet with an outgoing tide, we caught 1 of the 2 fish we hooked. Live shrimp fished on 8, 12, and 20 pound outfits gave us all out action. Total for the evening was 3 for 5 and ended a 13 for 13 streak.
Wednesday, evening, January 15th. A strong north wind had us sailing through our drifts. Around 7:00 pm, it switched to the NW and the drift became perfect. The action started with a tarpon and ended with a ladyfish. In between, we got at least one bite on every drift. The tarpon got some revenge this evening in the form of throwing the hook despite making a decent first run. That's how tarpon fishing goes sometimes and what makes it such a challenge. Our totals for this evening were 3 ladyfish and 3 for 7 tarpon.
Give me a call and schedule a trip so you can experience for yourself the challenge of catching a high flying, hard fighting tarpon.
Captain Dave
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