Speaker 1: Good morning from the beautiful waters of the Florida Keys
and Miami. It's artificial lure here with your May Tent
fishing report. Sunrise came in around six thirty six am
and we're looking at a sunset right around seven fifty
three pm, giving anglers plenty of daylight to get after
the bite. Winds are light and the weather's warming up.
A classic calm May pattern and perfect for getting offshore
or hitting the back country flats. On the tide side,
we're in a moderate moving cycle today. Expect the incoming
tide to bring good action on the flats and the
outgoing to set up a hot bite around the bridges
and deeper channels, especially as that water moves past structure
and stirs up bait. Offshore, you'll find black fin, tuna
and kingfish stacked up near the edge, especially around eighty
to two hundred feet of water. Kingfish are active on
slow trolled live baits or larger, flashy lures with wire leaders,
a must for those bigger toothy kings that can pop
up anytime. Blackfintuna are tearing up live pilchards and small
live baits, and some boats are reporting solid numbers as
well as a few fish breaking the thirty pound mark.
If you venture further offshore towards the blue water, Mahai
are scattered, but around, particularly near weed lines in three
hundred feet or deeper, Troll small skirted ballyhu or try
chunking with squid to ring the dinner. Bell wahoo are
showing up here and there, so keep a deep line
out just in case. On the reef and bottom fishing front,
grouper season is open and the bite is heating up,
especially near Rex and Patch reefs in fifty to one
hundred and twenty feet. Mutton snapper are chewing well on
live pinfish and ballyho fished near the bottom, and you've
got some amberjacks still hanging around the Rex too. Mangrove
and yellowtail snapper will only get better through the next
couple months, but right now muttons are the stars. Inshore
around the Key's Flat, redfish are cruising the skinny water,
polling quietly and tossing soft plastic jerk baits or live
shrimp is your best bet for sightfishing these fish. Tarpon
action is peaking in Key West as well, with early
mornings and nights being prime times to jump the silver
King using live crabs or big swim baits. Hot spots
today include the edge from Triumph Reef down to Fowy
Rocks if you're hunting pelagics, and the Islamorada Patch reefs
for grouper and muttons For backcountry action. The flats around
Marathon and Upper Keys hold plenty of redfish and snook
on the higher tides. Best baits and lures right now
are live pilchards, threadfin, herring, and pinfish for the offshore bite,
with jigs and big swim baits pulling in some quality
reef fish inshore. Can't go wrong with a well placed
live shrimp or a soft plastic paddle tail. That's today's rundown.
The bite's on, the weather's fine and there's no better
time to be on the water in South Florida. Tight
lines and see you out there. Sources Miami Fishing were
twenty twenty five, Double Threat Charters, Captain Experiences, Florida Keys
Fishing Report, May eight to thirteen, Key West Fishing Report,
May twenty twenty five, three four five, And that is
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