Speaker 1: This is artificial war coming to you with the Morning
Keys Miami Fishing Report. Down here, the winter pattern is
settling in light north to northeast breeze, cooler mornings, and
mostly clear skies with just enough chop to put a
little life in the water. Air temperatures are running from
the mid sixties at first light into the mid seventies
by afternoon, with water temperatures generally in the low seventies.
Sunrise is right around seven o'clock sunset just before early evening,
giving a nice long, low angle white window for inshore work.
Tides today in the Lower Keys are in a classic
winter cycle with a pre dawn low and a late
morning high, then another weaker low mid afternoon and a
solid evening push. That mid morning flood and the evening
fall are your prime. Chee windows around bridges, channels and
ocean side edges plan to be set up at least
thirty minutes before the ti. The bite has been best
on moving water, not at slack inshore. From Biscayney Bay
down through Islamorada. The usual winter suspects are cooperating. Snook
and juvenile tarpon are hanging on the warmest creeks, dock lines,
and marina edges, while mangrove, snapper and jacks are stacking
on channel bends and tottholes flats. Guides have been picking
off bonefish on the ocean side flats on the higher
part of the tide, with a few permits sliding up
when the sun gets high enough. Back in Florida Bay,
redfish and trout are chewing on the leeward shorelines when
the wind lays down. Offshore and along the reef, sailfish
and mahi have been the main story, with scattered blackfin
tuna on the deeper edges. The sail bite off Miami
and Islamorada has picked up on those cooler north breezes.
Kite baits are getting regular shots when the wind is right,
and slow troll balahou are still drawn. Fish on the
edge in one hundred two hundred feet dolphin have been
smaller schoolies, with the odd gaffer mostly on color changes
and bird packs. Farther out on the reef itself, yellowtail, snapper, muttons,
and the occasional grouper are coming over the rails for filks,
anchoring up with chump and working the slick patiently baitan
lure choices are pretty straightforward right now. Inshore live shrimp
or keen freeliner under a popping cork for trout, snook
and mangroves. Small whieter chartreuse paddletail jigs on one eighth
to one fourth ounces heads, gold spoons and shrimp patterned
soft plastics are doing work on reds, trout and bones
around bridges. A live pilchard, pinfish or mullet on a
light flooral leader is hard to beat for snooke, tarpin
and big jacks offshore rig balahoo on skirted trolling lures
in blue white or pink white. Medium sized diving plugs
and live goggle eyes or thread fins under the kite
are the top producers. If you're looking for specific hotspots.
Slide out to the Islamorada hunt for blackfin and the
chance at a sale or dolphin working the same bait pods.
Closer to town. The reef edgeoff Alligator reeflight has been
steady for yellowtail and muttons. When the current and wind
line up up toward Miami. The edge off Government Cut
and the lines of crabbuoyz to the South have been
holding sales in Dolphin Under the Birds. That's the word
from the water. Thanks for tuning in and don't forget
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