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Speaker 1: This is artificial war coming to you with the Morning

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Keys Miami Fishing Report. Down here, the winter pattern is

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settling in light north to northeast breeze, cooler mornings, and

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mostly clear skies with just enough chop to put a

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little life in the water. Air temperatures are running from

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the mid sixties at first light into the mid seventies

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by afternoon, with water temperatures generally in the low seventies.

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Sunrise is right around seven o'clock sunset just before early evening,

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giving a nice long, low angle white window for inshore work.

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Tides today in the Lower Keys are in a classic

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winter cycle with a pre dawn low and a late

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morning high, then another weaker low mid afternoon and a

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solid evening push. That mid morning flood and the evening

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fall are your prime. Chee windows around bridges, channels and

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ocean side edges plan to be set up at least

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thirty minutes before the ti. The bite has been best

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on moving water, not at slack inshore. From Biscayney Bay

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down through Islamorada. The usual winter suspects are cooperating. Snook

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and juvenile tarpon are hanging on the warmest creeks, dock lines,

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and marina edges, while mangrove, snapper and jacks are stacking

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on channel bends and tottholes flats. Guides have been picking

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off bonefish on the ocean side flats on the higher

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part of the tide, with a few permits sliding up

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when the sun gets high enough. Back in Florida Bay,

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redfish and trout are chewing on the leeward shorelines when

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the wind lays down. Offshore and along the reef, sailfish

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and mahi have been the main story, with scattered blackfin

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tuna on the deeper edges. The sail bite off Miami

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and Islamorada has picked up on those cooler north breezes.

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Kite baits are getting regular shots when the wind is right,

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and slow troll balahou are still drawn. Fish on the

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edge in one hundred two hundred feet dolphin have been

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smaller schoolies, with the odd gaffer mostly on color changes

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and bird packs. Farther out on the reef itself, yellowtail, snapper, muttons,

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and the occasional grouper are coming over the rails for filks,

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anchoring up with chump and working the slick patiently baitan

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lure choices are pretty straightforward right now. Inshore live shrimp

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or keen freeliner under a popping cork for trout, snook

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and mangroves. Small whieter chartreuse paddletail jigs on one eighth

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to one fourth ounces heads, gold spoons and shrimp patterned

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soft plastics are doing work on reds, trout and bones

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around bridges. A live pilchard, pinfish or mullet on a

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light flooral leader is hard to beat for snooke, tarpin

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and big jacks offshore rig balahoo on skirted trolling lures

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in blue white or pink white. Medium sized diving plugs

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and live goggle eyes or thread fins under the kite

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are the top producers. If you're looking for specific hotspots.

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Slide out to the Islamorada hunt for blackfin and the

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chance at a sale or dolphin working the same bait pods.

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Closer to town. The reef edgeoff Alligator reeflight has been

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steady for yellowtail and muttons. When the current and wind

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line up up toward Miami. The edge off Government Cut

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and the lines of crabbuoyz to the South have been

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holding sales in Dolphin Under the Birds. That's the word

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from the water. Thanks for tuning in and don't forget

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