2/3/15 early February 2015 Deep Sea Fishing Report

Things finally slowed down a little bit with traffic around the marina the past week, but it's not gonna stay quite for long. We still had close to 1/2 the boats fish most days, a few days more got out and a few days more were at the dock. We had a couple nice days with light winds and then we had a few other windy days with fronts passing through etc. The sailfish bite turned on for a couple days, With a lot of boats getting 3 to 5 bites a piece, but then the last couple days it got a little tougher, and a few boats each released 1 fish. Tomorrow is the Poor Girls sailfishTournament, which is always a fun and inexepensive tournament for all the lady anglers, and we can't wait to see how the boats do in that.

1 of 3 sailfish released on the Cloud Nine a few days ago

A couple of the calmer days where we had clear skies a few boats got in on the cobia action. I always tell everyone that fishing for cobia takes lots of patience, as the boats ride around inside the reef looking for big stingrays which the schools of cobia typically follow. Some days you spend hours looking with no success, and other days you look for a few minutes and hit a big school. There was a few schools of small fish found which were catch and release, and then a few other schools had some really nice fish close to 50 lbs.

Kalex with a limit of cobia and king mackerel

There's still been some decent bottom fishing for yellowtail, mangrove, and mutton snapper when the current is with the wind and the water is a little dirtier. A few days we had tough condiditons, but you just don't know until you get out there. The king mackerel have still been a good bet for action lately, especially around the wrecks with live bait.

Catch 22 with a mix bag of kingfish, a mahi, a sailfish , and deep drop fish like yelloweye snapper and tilefish

I made it out on 2 daytime broadbill swordfish charters the past week. We had 2 bites each trip, catching one each day. One fish was around 40 lbs which we released, and yesterday we had an 80 lber which we kept for dinner. We also did some deep dropping (bottom fishing in 650 - 700') on the way out and caught some really nice queen snapper the first trip. The swordfish bite is definitely slowing down a little, but it only takes 1 bite to have a great trip.

Troy with his ever every broadbill swordfish (released) on the Bn'M II

Since we released the swordfish how about some queen snapper for dinner!

Sandy and Jake hold up a swordfish we caught yesterday on the Bn'M II

February is a great time to come down here and avoid the crowds of people we get in March and April, so give the marina office a call at 1 800 742 7945 and let us set you up on an Islamorada fishing charter or in the marina hotel.

Capt. Nick Stanczyk