5/6/2012 Islamorada Offshore Fishing Report

May is here and it's warming up. The mixed bag of fish continues on the Deep Sea Offshore Fishing Charters. There's still been a few grouper being caught the last couple of days, mostly blacks and reds while reef fishing. There's also been a handful of sailfish around if you put your time in for them. The Kalex released a sailfish yesterday as did the Manowar. Today the Kalex released 3 sails, the Reel McCoy released a couple  and the BNM released one. The amberjack and "football" blackfin tuna have been biting good, but the dolphin (mahi) have been extremely tough the last few days. A handful of boats will catch a few but some boats will run miles and miles, troll for hours and never come across any! Hopefully after the full moon the dolphin will get a little thicker. Usually by May the dolphin are prevalent. There hasn't been much daytime swordfishing going on at the Marina lately, but today the Catch 22 made a drop after hitting a hump for some ambjerjack and "football" blackfin tunas, and within a few minutes hooked a 159 lb Broadbill Swordfish. It took an 1 hour and 20 minutes to boat the sword and when they filleted it, it was actually a pumkin! Which is when the meat is tinted orange due to it's diet. The Snapper have been biting fair on the reef the last couple of days, but the boats have been working very hard to put catches together with the conditions.