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Fishing Report: Fall fishing is comming alive in the Keys. Offshore - The Sword fishing has picked up in the last two weeks, as the fish continue to move back down toward the West onto their usual winter haunts. Two or more fish caught in a day is becoming the norm as the fish move back into the area. If you have never tried daytime Sword fishing, you really ought to. There is nothing like dropping a huge squid 1800 feet, right onto their address and finding out that someone is home. What a rush !!!!! The Blackfin Tuna on the hump are very receptive to the netfulls of Pilchards being thrown around. They are also moving back onto their winter haunts which in Marathon is the flats. It is a lot easier to cast net the Pilchards on the flats in the morning or evenings, than it is to go out on the reef at night to catch them which is the case all Summer. The Dolphin fishing is very spotty, although I was able to find plenty this Saturday. They were pretty thick just inside the Marathon Hump this weekend in the 5 to 10lb range. I was also lucky enough to find four Frigate Birds dogging a pair of decent size Dolphin, and I was able to get them to eat a couple of trolled CJ Squids and take them for a boat ride. Far Gulf - The Far Gulf Wrecks continue to be Red Hott. On a trip out there last week the Permit and Cobia were very cooperative. As I was pulling up to the first wreck located aprox 35 miles Northwest of marathon, a school of very large permit swam right up to the boat and were very happy with the Crab dinner I was serving up. After tangling with half a dozen of the huge Permit, 20 to 40lb I finaly got the boat anchored about 50' up-current of the wreck. As the current started to slack the Cobia started to show up with quite a few swimming right up to the boat, as is their habbit when the slack tide comes on. Needless to say we limited out on Cobia and released at least 10 really nice Permit. Also mixed in were many, many Goliath Grouper ranging in size from 15 to 250lbs. We also caught a few Flag Yellowtail, a couple nice Mangrove Snappers half a dozen short Gag Grouper and 1 barely legal Red Grouper. All in all the fishing is really starting to heat up. Right now the wind has been blowing for 3 days at about 25 knots and the water temps have dropped 3 to 4 degrees. The wind has been blowing out of the North and has accompinied a cold front our first of the year. I would bet a dollar to a doughnut that when the wind comes around to the East tommorow that the Sails will make an apperance in a big big way. I'll let you know in my next report. Till Later Tight Lines. Capt Fuzzy |
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