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Miami - Haulover to Fowey Light
Capt. Dean Panos
January 27, 2002
Miami - Saltwater Fishing Report
1/27/02
Lack of blue water and a slow down in the North current should have kept the sailfish off the bite, but sailfish in Miami continue biting. Yesterday with flat calm conditions, we ended up with three sailfish, some red groupers off the bottom and some huge ocean bonitas. The cool thing about catching sailfish in calm conditions is that you get to see everything. The sailfish dancing, jumping and tail walking can be seen from a long distance when it is calm. All of our sailfish ate flatline pilchards, even though we were flying helium on a kite with goggle eyes as well. It helps to keep a variety of bait on board, just in case the fish show a preference to one bait over the other. By the end of the day, we started some heavy live chumming (throwing pilchards overboard to attract fish). After about twenty minutes we had three sailfish within 15 feet of the boat crashing the free baits. By the time we put a pilchard on a hook and cast him out, they were gone, but what an awesome site. That would have been a perfect opportunity for a sailfish on fly – calm conditions and sailfish well within casting range.
Tarpon fishing was off for us Friday night, but I’ll be tarpon fishing most of the evenings this week, so I’ll have a good handle on what’s going on with the tarpon.
So if it’s offshore live baiting for sailfish, dolphin and kingfish or evening trips for tarpon, Miami has got it. Give us a call and lets go fishing.
Tight Lines
Capt. Dean Panos
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