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Fishing Report for Northern Miami-Dade County
Capt. Dave Kostyo
March 9, 2003
Miami - Saltwater Fishing Report
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 schools and moving around. There was a lot of jockeying around and at one point I had to jump out on my bracket and push a boat away from my engines. This particular boater didn't even seem aware of the fact that he was about to crash into me. He just keep throttling up. There is lots of bait for everyone and there is no need to be a throttle jockey. Enough said on that subject.
Now for the fishing activity. On Saturday we wanted some rod bending action. We didn't care what kind of fish it was. We found it at the Cuban Hole in the form of all the large bonito anyone could ever want. Mixed in with them were some nice size kingfish. After catching our fill of bonito and a kingfish, we moved offshore a bit and further south. Even in 150' we were still attacked by the bonito. Our final count was 10 and we moved even further offshore trying to find a sailfish. We got our reward in 250' and landed and released a sailfish that ate two of our baits. When I started to pull in the kite to move back to Haulover Inlet to try some tarpon fishing, a sailfish hit the bait and failed to hook up.
At Haulover, we caught a spanish mackerel, lane snapper, and ladyfish, but did not find nor see any tarpon. It is time to try Government Cut and I'll be doing that tomorrow evening.
Sunday, we fished for a half day and after several moves and lots of searching, we found some very cooperative kingfish in 90-110 feet off the north end of the hotels on Key Biscayne. They preferred slow trolled baits to drifted baits. We got strikes both on the flatlines and downrigger (40'). Three was enough for us and we left them in a feeding mood. Add the 1 bonito we started out with and my anglers were very happy.
Captain Dave
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