Speaker 1: This is artificial lore coming to you with your South
Florida and Keys fishing report. We've got a classic winter
pattern setting up. According to the National Weather Service marine
forecast out of Miami, bis Game Bay and the Atlantic
from Miami down toward Ocean, reef are running light to
moderate east southeast winds five fifteen knots seize one three
feet with just a light shop on the bay. That's
friendly water for just about any skiff or center console
down the island. Chain tides are moving enough to fire
up the bite. Tide forecast Key West tables show a
pre dawn high just under a foot, dropping to a
low mid morning, then building again to an afternoon high
around one point three feet and an evening low just
before midnight. Sunrise in the Lower Keys is right around
seven thirteen am with sunset just before six pm, so
you've got solid low light windows at dawn and last
light to work those edges. Farmers Almanac pegs this morning
as a poor bite on the Solliner chart, but the
local truth is different. Winter water temps and clean water
are trumping that with Florida Fish and Wildlife's latest red
tide status showing no corini of Brevis. On the Atlantic side.
Water quality from Miami down through the Keys has been
good and fish have been showing inshore around Biscany Bay
and Upper Keys flats. Locals are bending rods on speckled trout,
mangrove snapper, and a mix of jacks and ladyfish. A
few bonefish and permit have been pruising the warmer shallow
spots midday On the ocean side flats. Best bets there
are shrimp tip jigheads, small white or pearl paddle tails
on one ahound jigheads and live shrimp under a popping
cork along channel edges. For bones and permit, think small
panker tan shrimp patterns or skimmer jigs with a live
shrimp around the bridges from Key Largo to Marathon. The
winter mutton and mangrove snapper bite has been steady. Live shrimp,
small pilchards and cut ballyhue or squid on a knocker
rig will put meat in the box at night. Free
line shrimp around the shadow lines is turning up snook
and the odd tarpin when the water bumps up a
degree or two offshore of the Keys, recent charter chatter
has been all about sailfish, blackfin tuna and schooley dolphin.
When the blue water pushes in tight slow trolled goggle
eyes or pilchards on circle hooks off the edge of
the reef are still king for sales. For tunas, work
small seedlar plugs, feather jigs and pink white or blue
white and live pilchards over the humps dolphin or pounce
dolphin or pouncing on small skirty ballyhoo and bright dolphin
colored troll and lures. When you find birds and scattered
weed closer the Miami fish. The north end of Biscayme
Bay for sea trout and mangroves with doa shrimp, shrimp
and new penny or white and live shrimp on a
one quarter out's jake. The government cut and haulover jetties
are holding mackerel jacks and a few tarpin silver spoons,
greenback decks, wraps and live pilchards or threadfin on long
flour of carbon leaders will get crushed. Couple of hotspots
to circle the flats and channels around Islamaradas, Snake Creek
and whale harbor. Great mix of trout snappers, jacks, and
shots at bonefish when the sun gets up the Key
West Harbor and northwest channel edges, action on jacks, mackerel, snapper,
and shots of permit and tarpon on the right tide.
In short, bring live shrimp, pilchreds if you can find them,
a selection of three four inch soft plastics, silver spoons,
and a few trolling feathers or small skirts. Work moving
water around the morning and afternoon tide changes and you'll
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