Regional Fishing Reports for:
Southeast Florida (Miami to Palm Beach)

Miami, Florida - Offshore - After a week of very slow fishing week, yesterday (December 20), we had a terrific day of fishing. Just when you think you know a lot about fishing, you realize you don’t know anything. Conditions on this day were not the best, overcast, rainy, comin more...
Capt. Mark Houghtaling - 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

Miami - Haulover to Fowey Light - Double D Charters 12/16/02 Fishing on the edge has been productive. Again, same as last week, as long as you were in the right area. The dolphin fishing on the edge, between 300 and 100 foot of water has been very good. The dolphin have not bee more...
Capt. Dean Panos - Miami

Fort Lauderdale, FL - Offshore - Where are the Sails??? Now that the cold fronts are coming through, the Sails have been scarce. We have managed to catch one here and one there, but not like we expect this time of year. Friday (12/13/02) we went out of Port Everglades. The wi more...
Capt. David Ide - Fort Lauderdale

Fishing Report for Miami, Florida - We had a great day on Sunday by just enjoying what was available. My angler, Rob, didn’t care about size or kind of fish as long as they fought well on the tackle we were using. We loaded the wells with pilchards and tried a couple drifts along th more...
Capt. Bouncer Smith - Miami

Miami and Key Biscayne – offshore - Red Hot Sailfish The last few days have been red hot for sailfish, the fish are all nice size and being caught off the kite. The other day we fished a Half day and had one Sailfish 6 Dolphin 3 Mackerel and two twenty pound Dolphin on the kite in o more...
Capt. Quinton Dieterle - Key Biscayne

Fishing Report for Miami, Florida - We didn’t do much fishing over the last couple weeks. We had some tarpon action last weekend at night using shrimp along South Beach. We caught 1 about 40 pounds and then fought one about 150 pounds for 1 hour and 45 minutes before losing him. The more...
Capt. Bouncer Smith - Miami

Miami - Haulover to Fowey Light - 12/08/02 Depending upon where you are fishing, will dictate what you will be catching. The fishing in front of Miami has been producing mostly kingfish. The water has been pretty green, which kingfish love, but not optimum for sailfish. Al more...
Capt. Dean Panos - Miami

Miami and Key Biscayne – offshore - Heart Break Well it has to happen every year at least once. The dreaded break off on a nice fish. Today was the day. 4 oclock and all was well, a sailfish, 5 Dolphin 6 kingfish 15 pound mutton, and then the unfortunate.The right long float hit more...
Capt. Quinton Dieterle - Key Biscayne