Fishing Reports by Capt. Dean Panos

Swordfish Bite Picks Up - This past weekend was the 10th Annual Miami Swordfish Tournament. I have fished many of the Miami as well as the Islamorada Swordfish Tournaments in the past and have done very well in them. This year I had the pleasure of running a 39 SeaVee with more...
Capt. Dean Panos - Miami

Getting Ready - Sept 10, 2012 Last week the charter business slowed down a bit as it usually does after Labor Day. I took advantage of the down time and cleaned, rebuilt and put new Sufix 832 on all my electric kite reels. I also rebuilt all my spinning reel more...
Capt. Dean Panos - Miami

Get Ready - A good time to write up my report as we are locked on land until Tropical Storm/Hurricane Isaac make its way past us. Although just a Tropical Storm right now, it looks like we will get lucky and it will pass us to the south and no damage is expecte more...
Capt. Dean Panos - Miami

Variety - Aug. 6th, 2012 For the past two weeks we have had a variety of different trips. The majority have been daytime swordfish trips, one combo day/night sword trip, some trips on the edge and some trips for mahis in the Gulfstream. Starting with the more...
Capt. Dean Panos - Miami

Mahis Are Here - Since the last report I was on vacation for a week and then fished a few days here in Miami. Usually May and June are the best month for mahis, but this May and June the mahi fishing was relatively slow. Last year was the same but it got very good more...
Capt. Dean Panos - Miami

Snappers, Tunas and Sharks - In the past three weeks, I did a trip to Bimini, half a dozen trips on the edge, and a couple of mahi trips in the Gulfstream. Stating with the edge, there was a surprising number of sailfish around. We had a few days were we caught 4 sailfish in a more...
Capt. Dean Panos - Miami

Summer is Here - As is typical in South Florida, the charter business slows down a bit in the summer, but I still managed to get out 10 o the past 15 days, and overall the fishing has been very good. I did have a few half day trips that the fishing was a bit slow, more...
Capt. Dean Panos - Miami

Spring Time on the Edge - The fishing still remains very, very good. Don't get me wrong, we have had a few trips that the fishing was slow, but overall spring is the best time to fish especially for variety and that was definitely the case this month. Just the other day we more...
Capt. Dean Panos - Miami

Tuna Fever - The tunas are definitely here. Blackfin tunas in Miami and yellowfin tunas in the Bahamas. Starting with Miami, the big blackfins have shown up and in big numbers. For the past week or so we have been averaging 3 to 6 tunas per trip. The fish are more...
Capt. Dean Panos - Miami

Double Digit Sailfish Releases - What a great couple of weeks of fishing. This has definitely been the best fishing of the year. The sailfishing has exploded and we have gone almost double digit releases every day. In the past three days we have caught 40 sailfish out of 55 hooku more...
Capt. Dean Panos - Miami