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Speaker 1: Good morning from the beautiful waters of the Florida Keys

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and Miami. It's artificial lure here with your May Tent

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fishing report. Sunrise came in around six thirty six am

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and we're looking at a sunset right around seven fifty

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three pm, giving anglers plenty of daylight to get after

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the bite. Winds are light and the weather's warming up.

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A classic calm May pattern and perfect for getting offshore

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or hitting the back country flats. On the tide side,

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we're in a moderate moving cycle today. Expect the incoming

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tide to bring good action on the flats and the

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outgoing to set up a hot bite around the bridges

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and deeper channels, especially as that water moves past structure

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and stirs up bait. Offshore, you'll find black fin, tuna

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and kingfish stacked up near the edge, especially around eighty

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to two hundred feet of water. Kingfish are active on

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slow trolled live baits or larger, flashy lures with wire leaders,

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a must for those bigger toothy kings that can pop

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up anytime. Blackfintuna are tearing up live pilchards and small

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live baits, and some boats are reporting solid numbers as

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well as a few fish breaking the thirty pound mark.

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If you venture further offshore towards the blue water, Mahai

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are scattered, but around, particularly near weed lines in three

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hundred feet or deeper, Troll small skirted ballyhu or try

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chunking with squid to ring the dinner. Bell wahoo are

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showing up here and there, so keep a deep line

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out just in case. On the reef and bottom fishing front,

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grouper season is open and the bite is heating up,

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especially near Rex and Patch reefs in fifty to one

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hundred and twenty feet. Mutton snapper are chewing well on

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live pinfish and ballyho fished near the bottom, and you've

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got some amberjacks still hanging around the Rex too. Mangrove

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and yellowtail snapper will only get better through the next

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couple months, but right now muttons are the stars. Inshore

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around the Key's Flat, redfish are cruising the skinny water,

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polling quietly and tossing soft plastic jerk baits or live

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shrimp is your best bet for sightfishing these fish. Tarpon

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action is peaking in Key West as well, with early

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mornings and nights being prime times to jump the silver

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King using live crabs or big swim baits. Hot spots

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today include the edge from Triumph Reef down to Fowy

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Rocks if you're hunting pelagics, and the Islamorada Patch reefs

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for grouper and muttons For backcountry action. The flats around

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Marathon and Upper Keys hold plenty of redfish and snook

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on the higher tides. Best baits and lures right now

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are live pilchards, threadfin, herring, and pinfish for the offshore bite,

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with jigs and big swim baits pulling in some quality

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reef fish inshore. Can't go wrong with a well placed

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live shrimp or a soft plastic paddle tail. That's today's rundown.

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The bite's on, the weather's fine and there's no better

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time to be on the water in South Florida. Tight

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lines and see you out there. Sources Miami Fishing were

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twenty twenty five, Double Threat Charters, Captain Experiences, Florida Keys

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Fishing Report, May eight to thirteen, Key West Fishing Report,

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May twenty twenty five, three four five, And that is

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it for today. Hit the subscribe button and never miss out.

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Keep those tips up and lines wet. This has been

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a quite please production with the help of AI. Thanks

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for listening.