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Speaker 1: Good morning, folks. This is artificial lure with your Monday,

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May twenty sixth Florida Keys and Miami Area Fishing Report.

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It's the end of May. The sun's rising at six

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thirty two am and setting at eight o two pm,

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and we're heading into a solid run of summer like weather.

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The forecast today is classic Keys warm, mostly sunny, and

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light southeast winds about ten knots, making for calm seas

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and a great time to be out fishing. The tides

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today are moderate, with an early morning incoming tide peeking

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around eight am, and an outgoing tide through midday before

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another push in late afternoon. That means your best fishing

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windows are early morning and just before sunset, when the

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baits moving and the predators are on the hunt. Offshore,

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the biggest story is kingfish and blackfintuna. Captain reports from

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earlier this week have kingfish moving in shallow especially around

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the edge in eighty to a one hundred and fifty

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feet of water. There have been good numbers, with a

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few topping thirty pounds. Blackfintuna are biting two and a

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wire leader helps avoid cutoffs from toothy critters. For lures,

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go with flashy spoons, drone spoons and vertical jigs. Live

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bait like pilchards or goggle eyes on a light wire

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stinger rig has been deadly. Don't be surprised if you

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find some mahe mahai or even the occasional wahoo cruising

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the color change offshore, especially with the clean water pushing

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in five on the reefs and wrecks. Bottom fishing is

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heating up fast. Grouper season is open and there are

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amberjack willing to battle at the deeper res. Mutton snapper

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are responding well to live pinfish and bally who fished

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on the bottom during the outgoing tide. There's also been

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a solid bite for yellowtail and mangrove snapper. When chumming

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on the reef edge in sixty to ninety feet, use

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small pieces of cut bait on light fluorocarbon leters for

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best results. Five permit are making their usual may push

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onto the near shore rex and humps around big pine

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and marathon crab is the top bait, but a well

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presented live shrimp can draw bites when the crabs are

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tough to find. Four inshore around the bridges in bay,

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snook and tarpin are still active, especially on the outgoing tide.

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Large live mullet or artificial swim baits fished near current

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brakes can get hit hard at first light and dusk.

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Tailwaters of bridges like Channel five and seven mile have

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been especially productive hotspots for today, Head out to Alligator

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Reef for the snapper bite, or cruise down to Tennessee

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Reef where the kingfish and tuna have been heavy. If

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you want permit, the rex Off Marathon are a safe

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bet right now. Overall fish are active, boats are reporting

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good catches and conditions could not be better. Tight lines

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

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