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There is lots of good news since my last report.  First, the dolphin fishing has improved.  Not a lot of big ones, however, there are enough schoolie size fish to please most anglers.  Second, the larger blackfin tuna have finally made their appearance.  Add in the sailfish and kingfish and you have a very good variety of offshore fish.

Move inshore and tarpon fishing is still hot and will please many anglers.  The fish are in the 60 pound and up category.

Duany Ruiz had lots of fun on his ¾ day trip pulling on blackfin tuna, barracuda, kingfish, and cero mackerel.  After tasting his blackfin tuna, he gave me a call and said it was the best fish he has ever eaten.

Nick Mau, his wife, and 2 other friends got into some great tarpon action during their evening trip.  Nick and his wife started things off with a double header.  They both did an outstanding job of fighting their fish as the tide pushed us into the main channel at Government Cut.  The next three fish were singles.  Along the way we also caught a yellowtail and bluerunner.  Final count for the evening was 4 for 5.

Victor Osnaya and Luis Gonzalez started their evening tarpon trip off with a large jack crevalle.  Luis was amazed at how hard it fought.  I told him he hasn’t seen nothing yet.  Wait till the tarpon turn on.  He found out shortly thereafter what I was talking about.  Final tarpon count for the evening was 2 for 4.

Tom Mathias and his group also saw some great tarpon action.  It started with the first drift and remainder fairly steady throughout the evening. The final tarpon count was 4 for 5.

Matt and Matty Santamauro along with Joe Lorusso saw offshore action with a sailfish and then evening tarpon action along with mangrove and yellowtail snapper.

Tino Poo and his group caught yellowtail snapper, jack crevalle, blue runners and went 1 for 2 on tarpon during their evening trip.

Jewon Wee, Ken Lipscomb, Joe Steitz, and Mike Cranor saw the highs and lows of tarpon fishing.  The first tarpon was caught and released.  The second one gave us a great fight and acted like it knew where it wanted to go when it cut us off on the chain that holds one of the markers along the edge of Government Cut channel.  The third tarpon also seemed to have our number when it found an obstruction on the bottom and cut us off.  We also caught yellowtail snapper and ladyfish.

Patrick Picciotto made the most of the one shot he had during his tarpon trip.  The 80 pound fish ran us all over the flats area and then went into the main channel where Patrick slugged it out.  It was a back and forth battle for a long time.  Each time the fish got close and then ran off, the look on Patrick’s face was one of amazement.  He couldn’t believe how hard the tarpon pulled and the stamina the fish had.  I have to extend a THANK YOU to the group on the Paramount boat.  Our fish ran under their boat and the captain quickly raised his engine out of the water so our line could clear.  His quick action made it possible for Patrick to land and release his first tarpon.

Dave Steinel and John Mazurek fished offshore for dolphin.  We spent a lot of time trolling to find fish.  Once we got them up to the boat we switched to live bait on spinning outfits along with Kaplan jigs.  The fish were schoolie size with the largest one being 8 pounds.  We kept 6 fish and released the 14 other fish we caught.

Dave Steinel and John Mazurek were back for day two of dolphin fishing.  We started off with a blackfin tuna that was released.  We picked at dolphin as we trolled our way offshore.  We found a tree trunk and had our best action of the day.  The tree trunk also produce a wahoo for us.  On this day we kept the wahoo and 2 of the 10 dolphin that we caught.

It was back to evening tarpon fishing with Raul and Cary Bosque, along with Andre Figueroa, and Nicole Morales.  Raul started things off with his tarpon.  Then it was Andre’s turn.  The final fish of the evening gave us one jump before throwing the hook.  Final count was 2 for 3 tarpon.

That brings us up to date once again.

There’s still time to catch tarpon.  The blackfin tuna fishing is heating up.  Sailfishing is still good.  The rest is up to you.  To get in on the action, just give me a call 305-965-9454 or send me an email nkostyo@bellsouth.net to schedule your trip.

Captain Dave Kostyo

Knot Nancy Fishing Charters, Inc

305-965-9454

www.knotnancy.com

nkostyo@bellsouth.net