5-18-12 Islamorada Offshore Fishing Report
Friday, May 18, 2012 at 08:56PM We've had a some rain around the last few days, but we always say the fish don't mind, they're already wet. Today on the 18th the Dolphin (mahi) finally showed up in huge numbers!!! Almost all the boats limited out, mostly schoolies (3 to 5 lbs) , a few medium size ones, and there was a handful of slammers hanging up over 20 lbs. The last couple of days there had been some dolphin, but if you didn't find the right piece of debris, you didn't find many fish. Some of the boats had great catches, but they weren't everywhere like today. The Daytime swordfish bite was great for the Catch 22 on the 16th, where he put his anglers on two beautiful fish. A 189 lber and a 237 lber! Today on the BNM we did a daytime swordfish charter and managed to catch and released a 40 lb broadbill and then lost a 75 lber on the leader next to the boat. After seeing the dolphin catches today we are hoping that the bite is wide open the next few weeks. There's also been a couple wahoo and still some big amberjacks if you want a big pull.
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The inshore fishing was pretty good too. I fished 2 days with Capt Ken Cohan and we did well. We caught one nice triple digit tarpon then went for a mixed bag. We caught trout, redfish, snapper, snook and various others till I couldn't lift my arm any more!! The weather was odd and had the fish confused but we managed to get them to bite. Thanks for yet another great trip Capt Ken!!