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The dolphin fishing has been red hot off Marathon. The bite has been from 12-15 miles out still. Working the birds has been the best thing. Trolling the rigged ballyhoo with the JCamm lures infront of them once again has been working on the larger fish. We have been using fresh flying fish behind the...
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The seas were big and so were the fish. We headed out to the Marathon Humps and we ran into some big dolphin just inside the humps. The fish were on working birds. Rigged ballyhoo with a blue and white JCamm lure in front of it did the trick. The blackfin tuna were hitting the long Shimano butterfly...
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We headed offshore today and the weedlines were thick 9 miles South of Marathon. That is where we found our first slammer dolphin. The we found some working birds and once again we put out the J Camm lures with a ballyhoo and that kept off the small dolphin and the other two slammers could not stay off...
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Today we are fishing the first day of the Keymorada fishing tournament. We released 5 permit and hooked 15 or so. We also caught 2 cobias and released a few small amberjacks. The seas are calm and it is starting to get warm out there. We are sitting in third place right now. Thanks for checking out the...
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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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We had a great day already on permit. We caught and released 14 permit and hooked 28. The wind is out of the N at 10mph. It is 1 foot seas and the bite is on!! The afternoon calmed down to flat calm seas. The fishing did not! After noon, we caught amberjack up to 30 pounds, many big mangrove snapper...
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Today was a great flat calm day and the fishing was red hot!! We started out on the reef and caught some yellowtail and mangrove snapper and a 30 pound Cobia. We hit the wrecks and the permit bite was red hot. We went 10 for 20 on the permit today!! The shark took one of them. We had a great day on the...
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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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We had a great day at the Marathon Humps with 13 blackfin tuna, a 28 pound cow dolphin, a 8 pound schoolie dolphin, released a 200 pound hammerhead shark, missed a permit bite, and went 1 of 2 on tarpon. We are had a varity of fish for sure. The seas were flat calm and the the dolphin are coming through...
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We started in the Gulf and hit the wrecks again. We caught 12 cobia and kept a few. We also caught and released several Goliath groupers. We then headed to the Ocean and the permit were schooling on the wrecks. We went 1 for 6 hook up's on them. Mitch caught and released a 36 pound permit. Mitch...
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We hit the reef first and hammered up the yellowtail, mangrove snapper, and released keeper gag grouper. The wind was out of the south at 15kts. It set up great conditions for dolphin. We headed out a few miles offshore and found some great weedlines. We found plenty of schoolie dolphin on those. We...
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We hit the Gulf today, even though it was blowing 35mph. We had wind against tide most of the day. We caught mangrove snapper during that time. The tide change was at 1:30pm and that is when the cobias turned on. We caught 2 off the kite on live blue runners. We caught 2 more on live pinfish on the bottom...
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The wind was blowing hard so we stayed in the Gulf and bagged a few nice gag grouper and big mangrove snappers. The black nose sharks were biting as well and we had some great battles with them. Of course the Goliath groupers were everywhere. They are taking over the gulf wrecks. Everyone we caught was...
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Today we fished the Gulf and the grouper bite was very good. We also caught a few mangrove snappers, sharks and a ton of Goliath grouper. The wind was out of the SE at 18kts and the seas were only 1 foot in the Gulf. Thanks for checking out the Two Conchs fishing report with Capt. Jack Carlson. www.twoconchs...