Speaker 1: Good morning, folks. This is artificial lure with your Monday,
May twenty sixth Florida Keys and Miami Area Fishing Report.
It's the end of May. The sun's rising at six
thirty two am and setting at eight o two pm,
and we're heading into a solid run of summer like weather.
The forecast today is classic Keys warm, mostly sunny, and
light southeast winds about ten knots, making for calm seas
and a great time to be out fishing. The tides
today are moderate, with an early morning incoming tide peeking
around eight am, and an outgoing tide through midday before
another push in late afternoon. That means your best fishing
windows are early morning and just before sunset, when the
baits moving and the predators are on the hunt. Offshore,
the biggest story is kingfish and blackfintuna. Captain reports from
earlier this week have kingfish moving in shallow especially around
the edge in eighty to a one hundred and fifty
feet of water. There have been good numbers, with a
few topping thirty pounds. Blackfintuna are biting two and a
wire leader helps avoid cutoffs from toothy critters. For lures,
go with flashy spoons, drone spoons and vertical jigs. Live
bait like pilchards or goggle eyes on a light wire
stinger rig has been deadly. Don't be surprised if you
find some mahe mahai or even the occasional wahoo cruising
the color change offshore, especially with the clean water pushing
in five on the reefs and wrecks. Bottom fishing is
heating up fast. Grouper season is open and there are
amberjack willing to battle at the deeper res. Mutton snapper
are responding well to live pinfish and bally who fished
on the bottom during the outgoing tide. There's also been
a solid bite for yellowtail and mangrove snapper. When chumming
on the reef edge in sixty to ninety feet, use
small pieces of cut bait on light fluorocarbon leters for
best results. Five permit are making their usual may push
onto the near shore rex and humps around big pine
and marathon crab is the top bait, but a well
presented live shrimp can draw bites when the crabs are
tough to find. Four inshore around the bridges in bay,
snook and tarpin are still active, especially on the outgoing tide.
Large live mullet or artificial swim baits fished near current
brakes can get hit hard at first light and dusk.
Tailwaters of bridges like Channel five and seven mile have
been especially productive hotspots for today, Head out to Alligator
Reef for the snapper bite, or cruise down to Tennessee
Reef where the kingfish and tuna have been heavy. If
you want permit, the rex Off Marathon are a safe
bet right now. Overall fish are active, boats are reporting
good catches and conditions could not be better. Tight lines
and good luck out there, and that is it for today.
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