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Win at the Islamorada Swordfish Tournament by Dean Panos (8/14/2006)
This past weekend was the Islamorada Swordfish Tournament. This swordfish tournament is not like most of the swordfish tournaments where biggest fish wins, but is more like a BBC where releases count as well as weighed fish.

Miami Swordfish Fishing Report by Bouncer Smith (8/13/2006)
We fished for swordfish with Rick and his lady on Sunday night and had a swordfish swim through the lights and caught a good sized shark. Of course all was not lost as we had caught 6 snook , 2 out of 4 tarpon and 3 barracuda before heading offshore.

Biscayne Bay Tarpon Fishing Is Hot by Raul Montoro (8/08/2006)
The tarpon fishing has been red hot! Their eating fly's, crabs, and artificial baits depending on where your fishing for them.

Miami Florida Swordfish Report by Joe McGivern (8/06/2006)
230lb Swordfish Caught by Christian Hamp.

Unforgettable Catch by Gil Gutierrez (8/06/2006)
The kingfish have been around and then they pull a disappearing act. These are some days when you catch several kings and then a slight change in conditions and they disappear.

Swords ON! by Dean Panos (8/05/2006)
Fishing both day and night has been good. Catch kingfish, dolphin bonitas and a few sails during the day. At night go after the mighty swordfish.

Finishing July with Great Fishing by Bouncer Smith (8/04/2006)
July is finishing in fine fishing fashion. The fishing has been good for several days now. I hope August follows this trend.

South Florida Swordfish Report by Dean Panos (7/28/2006)
Swordfish Report for week 7/24/06. Great action with great clients.

Variety Of Fishing Biting Off Miami by Dean Panos (7/24/2006)
Since my last report, I was on vacation for a week, back to the Bahamas a few times, and fished Miami for a few days. Also since my last report, it seems we have been inundated with lots of rain. Along with the rain come thunderstorms and lightning which unfortunately has cancelled a lot of our swordfish trips.

Miami Summertime Fishing by Dave Kostyo (7/18/2006)
The summer time fishing on the reef continues to remain in its normal pattern. Blue water, north current, good edge, and lots of bonito, kingfish, and barracuda.

July Miami Evening Fishing Action by Bouncer Smith (7/17/2006)
After some great Bahamas fish, we are fishing in Miami again. We have had some terrific inshore action, but the offshore scene has been pretty slow.

Tarpon Fishing Biscayne Bay by Bob Lemay (7/12/2006)
This past week we've been concentrating on fly fishing tarpon, both during the daytime out of Flamingo and at night in Biscayne Bay....

Summertime Reef and Night Tarpon Fishing by Dave Kostyo (7/11/2006)
We are definitely in our summer pattern. That equates to mainly bonito, kingfish, and barracuda on the reef during the day. There will be a few sailfish and blackfin tuna caught but not on every trip.

Bahamas Bound and Local Bites! by Dave Trafton (7/07/2006)
Wow, I can't tell you how incredible the response has been to my blackfin tuna guide. I basically came up with ten steps to help target them specifically in Miami and you all loved it. Some of you have had success (Way to go Mike, Richard, and Jonny!), while some of you have not been able to put my tactics to work yet, or if you have you didn't tell me how you did.

Tuna and Dolphin In The Bahamas by Dean Panos (6/26/2006)
My long trip from the Bahamas is over. We had a great time and caught lots of fish with some of my best customers. I spent a little less than two and a half weeks in the Bahamas and targeted yellowfin tuna, big dolphin, trolled for blue marlin and also did a little bit of bottom fishing. For the tunas, we caught plenty of yellowfins from 30 to 70 pounds and a few blackfins.

Miami Tarpon Fishing Is Still Great by Dave Kostyo (6/26/2006)
There continues to be lots of very small dolphin all over the ocean whether you are 15 miles out or fishing in 150 feet. The best bet for finding decent size dolphin has been to fish inside of 250 feet.

Summertime Rod Benders by Gil Gutierrez (6/24/2006)
Well it's officially hot here so that means a changing of the guard in the waters off Miami. Let's start with the offshore scene. We have been getting good numbers of decent size kingfish. In just my last couple charters we were able to catch several kingfish

Bimini Bahamas Fishing From Miami by Bouncer Smith (6/19/2006)
We just finished another super trip to Bimini. We were there with the Aizpuru family, dad Rick, sons Matt and Dan, and their friend John Mahoney. The weather was flat calm with 88 degree highs.

It's Catchin Season! by Dave Trafton (6/16/2006)
I have been slammed since my last report. We have spent a lot of time in the Bahamas and have been fishing non-stop when back at home.

Fishing Is Action Packed by Dave Kostyo (5/30/2006)
The past several days have been action packed with lots of action. Dolphin offshore and tarpon inshore have been the main attraction.

Summertime Mahi Mahi by Gil Gutierrez (5/29/2006)
It's that time of year again and the dolphins are everywhere. Just about the only way that you couldn't catch one was to stay on the dock. We had a couple trips this week and cashed in on everyone.

Big Fish In May Off Miami by Bouncer Smith (5/25/2006)
May fishing has stayed super day after day and even most nights. The 15th we fished with Joe and Jay Della Monica and friend Jack. They caught 2 sailfish, 2dolphin, 2 barracuda, several bonito, 6 king mackerel and closed out this 8 hour trip with 3 tarpon from 80 to 120 pounds.

Blackfin Tuna Time by Gil Gutierrez (5/20/2006)
The blackfin tuna are here and the blackfin tuna run is finally underway. Onboard the lucky27 we have been catching a couple on every trip except one. We happen to catch the biggest blackfin on my boat to date at 35#s. We fought the fish for 45 minutes on 20# test.

Reef Action Off Miami Is Good by Dave Kostyo (5/15/2006)
The sailfish, bonito, kingfish, and dolphin action continued to be very good this past week. If you hit the right stretch of water, the blackfin tuna has also been good.

Wahoo, Kingfish, and Dolphin Biting by Dave Kostyo (5/07/2006)
During the past week, we've seen action with dolphin, wahoo, kingfish, and tarpon. For the vast majority of the week, there has been very little to a light south current.

Brand New Bouncers Dusky by Bouncer Smith (2/25/2006)
What an exciting Boat Show! We got a brand new "Bouncer's Dusky 33" powered by a pair of Evinrude E-TECH 250s. She has great big Lowrance colored fish finder and GPS chart plotter screens plus Lowrance radar. The new Evinrudes are quick. We have run up to 46 knots this week.

Fort Lauderdale Billfish Tournament by Dean Panos (2/13/2006)
The sailfishing continues to be very good. There have been a few days where we have struggled to catch 2 or 3 sails per day, but for the most part we are catching 3 to 6 a day.

Cold Air and Fishing Is Good by Dave Kostyo (2/13/2006)
Sailfishing and tarpon fishing have had their ups and downs over the past week. When we've been able to find some north current it has been good.

Sailfish and Tarpon are Hot by Bouncer Smith (1/17/2006)
You have to say one thing about this new year, the wind is fresh and strong. We have had some very good fishing. Live shrimp have produced plenty of tarpon around Government Cut.

Fishing For Thanksgiving by Bouncer Smith (11/30/2005)
Hurricane season ends today. Hurrah!!! Now the winter fishing season starts. Thanksgiving morning we had fishing at it?s best. Good weather and family out for some fun action with light tackle and fly gear. We anchored on a county wreck in 45 feet of water and caught fish by the dozens on fly and spinning rods rigged with jigs or live bait.