Fishing Reports by Capt. Izzy Donatiello

Upper Florida Keys & Islamorada - Last week I fished a long time customer of mine from California. When he arrived in Florida he was greeted with wind and cold temperatures. Wednesday as we left Robbies; the wind was blowing about 20 + miles an hour. the water temperature had dropped more...
Capt. Izzy Donatiello - Islamorada

Upper Florida Keys & Islamorada - Over the last couple of weeks, I have only fished a couple of times. I been giving the sea craft a face lift. I had a couple of offshore trips hoping for a sailfish. We caught sails on one of the three trips. Small kings and dolphin did eat. As the more...
Capt. Izzy Donatiello - Islamorada

Upper Florida Keys & Islamorada - Last week, I had a nice couple Bob and Marybeth Sroufe from Massachusetts, out for a half day to look for some Dorado. Bait was easy to catch. After a half hour on the bait patch: we headed offshore. A nice weed line was out in 250 feet, we put our b more...
Capt. Izzy Donatiello - Islamorada

Upper Florida Keys & Islamorada - Before CHARLEY, I when out to the reef to do some snapper fishing. It took some time, but the fish came up and were able to catch a couple dozen yellowtails plus a couple Cero mackerel and a 25 pound CUDA. I moved out to 180 feet of water and drift more...
Capt. Izzy Donatiello - Islamorada

Upper Florida Keys & Islamorada - Today I went patch reef fishing. We found the Yellowtails, and they were hungry. However, the water was gin clear which requires light lines and small hooks. There are some Tarpon at the bridges; crabs and dead baits are accounting for the bites. D more...
Capt. Izzy Donatiello - Islamorada

Upper Florida Keys & Islamorada - Over the past weeks due to the weather; we been having. Most of my fishing has been either in the bay or on the shallow reefs in the ocean. In the bay, the trout have cooperative; but the sizes have been on the small size.the North winds have hurt th more...
Capt. Izzy Donatiello - Islamorada

Upper Florida Keys & Islamorada - Over the last weeks the sailfishing has been very good. Then the weather warmed up and the bite slowed. The wind then increase out of the Southeast, making it uncomfortable to fish in the deep water. Most of my customers; decided to stay shallow for more...
Capt. Izzy Donatiello - Islamorada

Upper Florida Keys & Islamorada - The Sailfishing has been hot. The fish are chasing ballyhoo in 50 foot of water. It is real exciting. You have your baits out; all of a sudden the water explodes with hundreds of ballyhoo being chased with the sail's head out of the water trying to c more...
Capt. Izzy Donatiello - Islamorada

Upper Florida Keys & Islamorada - Last week I had two interesting trips. I had the Haagen-dazs ice cream sale group from fort Lauderdale headed by Charles Cohen. We headed off shore to try for some snappers. One throw of the net provided all the live bait we needed. I chummed heavily more...
Capt. Izzy Donatiello - Islamorada

Upper Florida Keys & Islamorada - THE LAST WEEK I HAD A GROUP IN FROM THE UK. THEY WERE RECORDING INFORMATION FOR THE BBC RADIO SHOW FISH ON FIVE. DESPITE THE WINDS BLOWING EVERYDAY OVER 20 KNOTS. WE WERE ABLE TO GET IN A COUPLE DAYS OF FISHING. EACH MORNING I AND JOHN BEER WOULD G more...
Capt. Izzy Donatiello - Islamorada