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Speaker 1: This is your daily fishing report podcast for Florida Keys

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Miami and here is what is bending our rods today.

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Good morning from the Florida Keys. This is Artificial Lure

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with your fishing report for April eighteenth, twenty twenty five.

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We are right in the thick of spring action here

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in the Keys in Miami area. The early tarpin migration

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has kicked off and the bridges are prime territory right now.

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Anglers are seeing plenty of tarpin cruising through, although they

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are making you work for bites. Early mornings have been

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best for hookups, with live mullet being the ticket for

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big silver kings. Dead bait will get some action too,

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but nothing beats a lively mullet for drawing in a bite.

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If you like a little more challenge and less crowd,

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try your luck in the local channels around Islamorada, or

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drift a live bait near the seven mile Bridge one offshore.

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The yellowtail snapper bite is steady along the edge of

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the reef and kingfish are mixed in. There is also

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a good showing of blackfintuna around the rex and even

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a few mahai and the occasional sailfish showing up around

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the color changes further out. If you are looking to

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bend a rod, these offshore trips are producing variety in numbers.

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On the flats, permit are showing up and the usual

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suspects bonefish and barracuda are active. Doa shrimp paddletail jigs

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and unweighted soft plastics are all working well for the

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flat species. For bait, live shrimp and crabs are the

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go tos, and for tarpin you cannot go wrong with

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live mullet, pilchards or pinfish. The inshore guys are reporting

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snook and trout biting around mangrove edges and grassy basins,

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especially on the outgoing tide. Paddle tails, jerk baits, and

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top water plugs are all good choices here. You might

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even tie into a few jacks and the odd redfish,

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especially early or late in the day. Weatherwise, we are

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looking at typical spring conditions, a pleasant eighty to seventy

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seven degrees, breezy at times, with a low chance of rain.

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Today sunrise is right at seven seven am and sunset

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at seven forty six pm, giving you a long window

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to get on the Water six. If you are hunting

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for hotspots, check out the seven mile and Long Key

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bridges for tarpin, especially on the outgoing tide around dusk.

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The edge of the reef near Tennessee light for yellowtails

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and kingfish. Channel two and Channel five bridges for a

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mixed bag and solid permit action summary. Tarpin are pushing through,

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but you need to put in the work. Offshore action

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is solid with yellowtails, kings, tuna and a shot at

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Mahai and the flats are alive with permit and bonefish

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For artificial lures. Doa shrimp paddle, tails, jerk baits and

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top water plugs are all working. Live mullet pilchards, shrimp

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and crabs are the top baits right now. Tight lines

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and good luck out there. And that is it for today.

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