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Miami - Haulover to Fowey Light
Capt. Dean Panos
February 23, 2004
Miami - Saltwater Fishing Report
Double D Charters
2/23/04
The fishing in Miami continues to be very good.
We have been catching mostly sailfish during the day, along with some kingfish and swordfish at night. The sailfish continue to provide steady action through the day. Our best day last week was 8 sailfish and our slowest was 4 for the day. Most of the bites have been on the kite baits. We have quite a few sailfish trips coming up, so hopefully the bite will remain good.
Swordfishing at night has been excellent for us. We have been averaging at least 2 fish a night. The fish have been of decent size as well. We haven’t caught any fish over 200 pounds this past week, but most of them were right around 120 to 160 pounds. This past Friday night though was a trip not to be forgotten. We set up by dark and caught a 100 pound fish right as the sun was setting. We actually hooked him with the sun still up. A few hours later we hooked another swordfish. After about a 15 minute fight, the swordfish charged the boat. I got a good luck at him as he swam under the boat and guessed around 150 pounds. Another 15 minutes goes by, and all of a sudden this fish start jumping and fighting really erratically. Now closing on 40 minutes, we get the fish next to the boat, and a LARGE blue shadow shows up next to him. It’s a Mako Shark and a very big one. What impressed me more about this fish was the girth of the shark. As a conservative estimate, I would say it was at least a 400 to 500 pound mako. As I try to stick the swordfish with the gaff, the Mako takes of the swordfish’s tail. I gaff the sword, so now I have a gaff in one hand, the swords bill in the other hand, and a mako pulling the sword down. All this is happening in was appears like just a flash in time. I am now doing hand to hand combat with the mako, trying to get my swordfish on the boat. I’m yelling at my crew to get the harpoon ready so we can stick the mako, but by the time the harpoon was out and ready the mako split. Maybe it was a good thing, because who would have known what would of happened after we stuck a harpoon in a 500 pound green mako. The other swordfish trips were eventful as well. On one of the other trips, after we had already caught a nice swordfish, I hear some splashing on the surface just outside of the light of the HydroGlow. I looked out and saw a big bill slashing the surface. It was a swordfish eating tinker mackerel right next to us. The swordfish decides to jump clear out of the water and swim under our boat. As he swam by we pitched baits to him, but he showed no interest. That swordfish was at least 250 pounds and would have been nice to hook up. Last night swordfish trip was eventful as well. We caught 2 swordfish out of three bites, but both swordfish we caught were decent (125 pounds each) and both of them put on an aerial display that was out of this world. The first fish jumped at least 15 times and when I mean jump, he was 10 feet in the air. At one point he was greyhounding out of the water coming straight at us. He came so close that we thought he was coming in to the cockpit. All in all, it has been a great week of fishing, both day and night trips.
Late winter and spring are great time to fish in Miami, and trips are booking fast, so gives us a call and lets create some fishing memories that won’t be forgotten!
Tight Lines and Good Fishing,
Capt. Dean Panos
Double D Charters
(954)805-8231
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