Fishing Reports by Capt. Dave Kostyo

Fishing Report for Northern Miami-Dade County - Picking up from my last report, here is the day by day run down on the fishing off Miami Beach and Key Biscayne. Tuesday and Wednesday, we had little to no current and dirty green water. Despite these conditions, there were sailfish caught on Tues more...
Capt. Dave Kostyo - Miami

Fishing Report for Northern Miami-Dade County - HOT! HOT! Tarpon Action At Government Cut Fishing offshore has been good. Inshore, the tarpon fishing at Government Cut has exploded. Sunday, the goal during our day trip was to catch sailfish. We started by catching pilchards and then herring more...
Capt. Dave Kostyo - Miami

Fishing Report for Northern Miami-Dade County - Lets get right to the day by day action starting with Wednesday, March 12th. After having a really great day on Tuesday, the conditions changed drastically for the worse on Wednesday. Beautiful sunny weather and calm seas, but no current at all. more...
Capt. Dave Kostyo - Miami

Fishing Report for Northern Miami-Dade County - Kingfishing and sailfishing have been very good. Mix in plenty of bonito and you have the ingredients for some great rod bending action. On Monday (3/10), the morning trip was two fathers and their 7 & 8 year old sons. Our first goal was to catch more...
Capt. Dave Kostyo - Miami

Fishing Report for Northern Miami-Dade County - The past two days we have had gorgeous weather with very light winds. Lots of anglers have taken advantage of these conditions and catching bait turned into quite an adventure on Sunday. Until the tide started moving in, the bait was in small schoo more...
Capt. Dave Kostyo - Miami

Fishing Report for Northern Miami-Dade County - Today was the first time that I fished offshore since Sunday. I ran the 45' Hatteras, Bill Time, owned by Bill Borkan. We left Bill's dock at 10 am and ran to Government Cut to catch bait. The pilchards were plentiful and it didn't take very long more...
Capt. Dave Kostyo - Miami

Fishing Report for Northern Miami-Dade County - A Lull In The Tarpon Action? Tarpon fishing showed a dramatic slow down on Saturday evening. Having not fished on Sunday evening and not knowing if the slow down was continuing, Jorge Rodriguez, Robert Fernandez, and I left Spinnaker Marina at 5 more...
Capt. Dave Kostyo - Miami

Fishing Report for Northern Miami-Dade County - When I do tarpon fishing seminars, one of the things I discuss is the fact that tarpon do not settle into any one pattern for too long. This week was a prime example of that fact. In the late afternoon, we were getting several strikes from the fis more...
Capt. Dave Kostyo - Miami

Fishing Report for Northern Miami-Dade County - WOW!! - Best Describes The Tarpon Action @ Haulover Inlet This may sound like a broken record, however, tarpon fishing at Haulover Inlet has been nothing short of spectacular. On Wednesday evening, there was a major shrimp run and the tarpon whe more...
Capt. Dave Kostyo - Miami

Fishing Report for Northern Miami-Dade County - Steady Consistent Tarpon Action @ Haulover Inlet Normally after having a tough night keeping the hook in a tarpon such as we experienced on Monday evening with our 0 for 4 results, the next trip is much better. Tuesday evening was to be no except more...
Capt. Dave Kostyo - Miami