Speaker 1: This is your daily fishing Report podcast for Florida Keys
Miami and here is what is bending our rods today.
This is artificial lure coming at you with your Florida
Keys and Miami area fishing report for April twenty first,
twenty twenty five. We're right in the sweet spot of
April down here, and the action has been heating up
as the spring migration picks up steam. Sunrise was just
after six fifty am and sunset will be around seven
to fifty pm, so you've got plenty of daylight to
wet a line and chase the bite. Weather this week
has been classic Keys spring warm, a bit breezy, with
some lingering chop offshore from the recent winds. Expect temperatures
in the high seventies to low eighties. The winds are
making things sporty outside the reef, but inshore and bridge
fishing remains solid. Tide wise, we're in a swing period
after a recent full moon. The outgoing tides in the
mornings are moving a lot of bait under the bridges
and around the channels, which means the pre are on
the hunt. Plan your trips around that moving water for
the best shot at fish. Now for the fishing. Tarpin
are the headliners right now. With the early migration well underway.
The bridges from Islamorada through Marathon are producing, especially on
the evening and outgoing tides. Anglers are jumping and landing
fish up to one hundred and twenty pounds on live mullet.
Crabs and big artificials like swim baits and doa bait busters.
Night trips are catching consistently and can be electric action.
Five On the reefs, yellowtail snapper are thick along the
edges in sixty to ninety feet, especially when you can
chum them up behind the boat. Mutton snapper and the
occasional big mangrove are mixed in. Pilchards and cut baits
are working best, but don't overlook a jig tipped with
shrimp for finesse bites too. Offshore sailfish are holding on
the color changes just past the reef, with blackfintuna and
the off mahi also showing up. The mahi bite is
spotty due to scattered weeds, but if you find the
right patch there's action to be had. Trolling skirted ballyhoo
or drifting live pilchards has been most productive. Kingfish are
mixed in around rex and live bottom. Recent reports from
Marathon and Islamorada charters have been positive. Despite rough seas,
captains are still putting clients on fish, especially when focusing
on the bridges, patch reefs and bay rex hotspots to
check out today seven mile Bridge for tarpin and snapper,
the Islamorata humps for blackfin and the occasional mahai and
the edge of the reef from Alligator Light to Tennessee
reef for a mixed bag. Best bets for bait live
mullet pilchards or crabs for tarpin and pilchards, or cut
baits for the reef species. Top lures include swim baits
for tarpin, bucktail jigs for snapper, and trolling plugs or
skirts offshore. That's your update from down here in Paradise.
Tight lines and remember sometimes the best lure is just
showing up at the right tide. And that is it
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