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Where were they 2 days ago for the Marathon Offshore Dolphin Tournament??? We had a great day with Blackfin tuna! We hooked our last one and a shark ate him. As we were fighting him, three large dolphin showed up. We pitched out our live baits and a triple header was on! We landed a 20, 27, and a 30...
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May and June bring great fishing to the Florida Keys. This is when the dolphin (mahi-mahi), blackfin tuna, and blue and white marlin are being targeted and caught offshore. Trolling rigged ballyhoo and lures around the Marathon Humps will surely put a big bend in your rod. The grouper season opens up...
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Today the seas were 5-6 feet offshore early on. We fished the Marathon Humps and tore up the blackfin tuna on the jigs. We got into dolphin on our way to and from the humps. The big dolphin are showing up. We lost one today in the 40 pound class. We still had a mess of fish to clean. Thanks for checking...
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The Gulf action was red hot on the Gags and Kingfish. We released 9 legal gags and a legal red grouper (in the Keys we are not allowed to keep grouper until May 1st). We landed some decent kingfish and lost a 40 plus pounder. The wind was out of the East at 18kts and seas were 2-4 feet out 30 miles....
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The Easter Bunny brought us a box full of football tuna candy:) They hit the Shimano Butterfly jigs like crazy. So did a 50 pound amberjack that my 10 year old angler, Manny caught. The Marathon Humps were on fire. The seas were 3-5 feet offshore. We headed in and there was an endless weedline 7 mile...
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The wind is East at 16kts and seas are 2-3 feet. We are fishing the patch reefs and the snapper bite is on. We have 40 snappers in the box with a pompano and mackerel as well. We released several gag grouper too. It is perfect conditions for tailing sailfish and Cobia. That is the afternoon game plan...
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Today the wind is out of the North at 18kts. The seas are only 1-2 feet on the wrecks. We started on the patch reef and loaded up on mangrove snapper. We then fished the color change in 200 feet of water and caught dolphin and saw a sailfish tailing. We pitched live baits at him 4 times and he wanted...
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The wind is blowing 25 out of the South and we are anchored up on a wreck off Marathon. The fishing has been red hot with big kingfish, muttons, amberjacks, and a hammerhead. We are flying a kite and hanging live mullet off of it. The mutton snapper are eating live blue crabs on a 1oz. Calcutta jig....
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Today we fish the color change from 150 feet of water out to 280 feet of water. Early on we caught dolphin and fought the cloud coverage. Around noon the sun stayed out and made it easy to spot the tailing sailfish. We saw 5 and caught and released 2. There were more dolphin surfing the waves as well...
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The tuna bite was on at the Marathon Humps. The Shimano Butterfly Jigs did the trick again. We caught 15 blackfin tuna up to 25 pounds and a 35 pound amberjack. We headed back in towards shore and came across a great color change in 650 feet of water. We trolled the edge of it and was steadly catching...
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We fished with Dan and Claduia Hegwald. We fished the Gulf and the Goliath grouper were on fire. We caught and released several from 30-70 pounds and released some keeper gag grouper. We did take home some snapper to cook up tonight during the show. Thanks for checking out the Two Conchs fishing report...
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The reef has been great for yellowtail and mangrove snapper. We also caught a nice kingfish, hogfish and more. The wind is over 20kts out of the North. Seas are running 3 feet and sometimes a 4 footer. The water is very green. We just hit the wrecks and the mutton snapper, amberjacks are hitting and...
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The fishing was red hot! We caught out limit of mangrove, yellowtail, and mutton snapper. We released a few keeper black grouper. The mackerel bite was good and we even got into some pompano. The seas were 2-3 feet and not bad on the reef. The fish are really turning on now!! Thanks for checking out...
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Norm, Luke and Peter Franco are fishing the reefs and wrecks with us today. The patches had steady action with snapper and grouper all morning. The wrecks are loaded with all sizes of amberjacks. We also hooked into a 6' hammerhead and released him unharmed. The wind is out of the North at 8kts and...
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Mark, Kevin and Karl from New York, had a great day Tuna fishing here on the Marathon Humps. The big amberjacks were around as well. The action was non-stop with tripple headers all day long. The seas were 3-4' early on and calmed down to 1-2'. Thanks for checking out the Two Conchs fishing report...