Miami Fishing Reports

Fishing Report for Northern Miami-Dade County - September 1, 2003 As we left Spinnaker Marina on Sunday morning, the wind was almost nonexistent. This was a welcome relief from the way it has been blowing for the past several days. Our first order of business was to show 11 year old Matt Beris more...
Capt. Dave Kostyo - Miami

Fishing Report for Miami, Florida - Big Snook are Hot It is hard to imagine, but we have not gone daytime fishing in weeks. For over 20 years we fished 7:30 to 4 every day and some evenings. Now during the hot summer months we are fishing more at night than during the day. This is more...
Capt. Bouncer Smith - Miami

Fishing Report for Northern Miami-Dade County - August 29, 2003 We've gotten to that time of year again when it is time to start fishing on the big (Bill Time) boat again. Bill Borkan was excited about being able to get out and fish the water's off Miami Beach again. Heading south from Haulov more...
Capt. Dave Kostyo - Miami

Miami - Haulover to Fowey Light - 08/25/03 August proved to be a decent month for swordfish. With the exception of only a few day trips for dolphin, we have been swordfishing quite a bit. We caught swordfish on every trip but one this entire month. Even the trip that we didn’t g more...
Capt. Dean Panos - Miami

Fishing Report for Northern Miami-Dade County - The weather has finally settled in to its normal summer time pattern. Warm and sunny days, calm seas, and dodging afternoon thunderstorms has become a daily event. Fishing in general has taken on the usual pattern for late August. One day you d more...
Capt. Dave Kostyo - Miami

Fishing Report for Miami, Florida - Little Men / Big Fish The last week has been special for a couple of young anglers. Monday night we fished with the Arostegui family. 11 year old Martini is their primary angler although dad, a.k.a. Marty fishes with his fly rod most of the e more...
Capt. Bouncer Smith - Miami

Miami, Florida - Offshore - Surprisingly, anglers are still enjoying decent dolphin catches despite the heavy storms and hot weather. I spoke with one angler fishing this week and he told me of a school of dolphin he found in 1000 feet of water that were all 15 to 20 pounds. He more...
Capt. Mark Houghtaling - Miami

Fishing Report for Northern Miami-Dade County - We are in that time of year when the trips are not coming fast and furious. Its time to perform maintenance on the boat and rest up a bit from the winter time pace. Prior to the tropical wave coming through we were catching tarpon and jack crevall more...
Capt. Dave Kostyo - Miami

Fishing Report for Miami, Florida - Night Fishing We had the MS worm! Thank goodness we got rid of it. Now we can talk about fishing again. We have done almost all of our fishing at night. For a while it was pretty tough to catch a swordfish. We went several nights with no bites or more...
Capt. Bouncer Smith - Miami

Miami - Haulover to Fowey Light - 08/10/03 Continuing from my last report, as expected and hoped for, the swordfish bite turned on with the new moon. Although the sword bite was a bit slow for most in July, it has already picked up greatly for August. I had swordfish charters fo more...
Capt. Dean Panos - Miami