Speaker 1: Artificial lure. Here with your local fishing report for the
Florida Keys in Miami, Thursday, August twenty eighth, twenty twenty five.
Let's get right into it. Today was a classic late
summer day on the water, with solid action for those
who timed their trips around some dynamic tides and favorable weather.
In Miami, sunrise hit at six fifty eight am and
sunsets wrapping up tonight at seven forty five pm. Over
in Key West, first light was at seven oh one am,
and we'll see the sun down at eight oh one pm.
If you were out early, you know that's when things
started to pop. Both Miami Beach and the Keys are
seeing strong tidle swings today. High title coefficients of eighty
one in Miami and eighty in Key West mean heavy
current and solid water movement, a big trigger for feeding activity.
According to Tide's fore Fishing and Tide Forecast, low tide
came just before sunrise, then built to a late morning high.
Miami's first high tide was at eleven oh five am,
key West's at one fifty three pm. If you miss
those moving water windows, you probably found the mid afternoon
bite a little slow weatherwise, were still under warm, muggy
skies with those classic southeast breezes laying down enough chop
to keep the bait nervous. No major storms reported, just
at persistent subtropical energy we expect in August. Let's talk
about what's biting. The Florida Insider fishing report has been
lit up all week with catches of Mahi ma'i out
past the reefs, especially off Marathon and Islamorada. Most fish
running schoolly size, but some bigger bowls pushing twenty pounds
in the mix. By the color changes and rips on
the reefs, mangrove snapper are still loaded up, and yellowtail
are thick just outside the patch reefs from forty to
seventy feet tarpin or running steady on the bridge channels
around Channel two and five, with a few big boys
reported at sunset. Inshore bone fish and permit have been
tailing early on quiet flats, especially around Sugar Loaf and
Biscayme Bay on that tide, Slitch, snapper and grouper reports
are solid from near shore legs and for the bridge crowd,
steady action with snoke in the shadow lines just about
everywhere from Tavernir to the Miami Causeways. According to captain experiences,
most guides are running a mix of light tackle, live
bait and artificial lures, trolling plugs and vertical jigs offshore,
while beach and jetti anglers are doing well on paddle
tails and topwater walkers early. As for what's pulling best,
early morning and just after tide changes are your prime windows. Offshore,
trolled bally Hue and Benita strips with bright skirts are
out catching everything, but don't overlook big flashy diving plugs
on the reefs. Cup pilchards and live shrimp are still
keen for snapper, while a two ounce pink bucktailed jig
can fire up just about anything sitting below the bait schools.
If you're chasing tarpain at dusk, nothing beats a big
mullet or live crab drifted near current edges. Top layer
picks for this week, topwater poppers at first light for
snooke and bonefish, white or Chartreu's paddle tails on a wall,
unfour thaws, jighead for the mangroves, Metal vertical jigs or
big swim baits offshore over structure hotspots to target try
Islamorada Hump for mahi action and blackfintuna or drift the
mile marker eighty eight reefs for steady mangrove and yellowtail
bite closer to Miami fish, the bear cut or government
cut for a shot at Snooke Tarpin, and the occasional
permit cruising early. Thanks for tuning in, folks. Don't forget
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