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Speaker 1: This is your daily fishing Report podcast for Florida Keys Miami,

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and here is what is bending our rods today. Good

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morning from the Florida Keys in Miami. This is Artificial

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Lure with your local angler's fishing report for Wednesday, April sixteenth,

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twenty twenty five. Weather's warming up quick down here and

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it definitely feels like springs in the air. We're seeing

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some classic Keys conditions. Expect early morning tempts in the seventies,

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climbing toward the low eighties by afternoon, with a healthy

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breeze still hanging around from the southeast. The wind's been

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steady at fifteen to twenty knots, so seas are a

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bit bumpy offshore, but it's nothing the locals aren't used to.

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If you're heading out, chase some lea sides or backcountry

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pockets to stay out of the chop. Sunrise this morning

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hit at seven oh seven am, and we'll see sunset

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around seven forty six pm in the Keys, just a

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bit earlier over in Miami at six fifty seven am

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and seven forty four pm. That gives you plenty of

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daylight to fish both the early bite and a prime

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sunset session. Tides are swinging moderate today, with a good

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push early and slack midday. That incoming tide just after

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sunrise is a solid window for feeding tarpon, snook and

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trout around the bridges and channels. If you're fishing the flats,

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that rising water is your ticket for stalking bonefish or

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permit in skinny water. Fishing action has been steady, but

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you've got to put in the time. Tarpinfishing is just

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starting to heat up. Anglers are jumping a few each

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morning in the local channels and along the bridges. A

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couple fish landed yesterday in the forty to fifty pound range,

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mostly caught on live mullet, with some hits on dead

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bait as well. Five snook are biting around the Mangrove

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creeks and some structure in the back country, and there's

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a good showing of big jacks and nurse sharks mixed

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in for some drag screaming fun on the flats. Bonefish

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are making good ghostly appearances, with some landed on cut

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shrimp or small crabs. Permit action has been slower than usual,

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likely because of that late cold snap in March, but

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some encouraging signs as bigger fish starts sliding north. Trout

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biting up around the grassy bays and channels best early

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or late in the day. Offshore and in the Gulf,

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Spanish mackerel, kingfish, kobia, and snapper are active. Big jacks

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and sharks are running heavy, so bring some stout tackle

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if you want a tussle. If you're bait fishing, live mullet, pinfish,

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shrimp and pilchards are top choices for artificials. Locals are

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scoring with doa shrimp paddle, tail jigs, unweighted soft plastics

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and bait busters in the channels and around structure. Out

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on the flats, you can't go wrong with a small

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jig or crab pattern for bones and permit, and flashy

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lures for barracuda and jacks. Hotspots to try today Islamarada

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bridges and nearby channels for early morning tarpan and jack's

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flats around Key Largo and Tavernier for bonefish and permit

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when the tide's flooding. In back country creeks behind Marathon

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and Flamingo for snook, redfish and juvenile tarpin. Wind might

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be up, but with a little local knowledge and the

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right bait. There's action to be had. Get out there

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and tight lines, and that is it for today. Hit

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the subscribe button and never miss out. Keep those tips

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up and lines wet. This has been a quite pleased

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production with the help of AI. Thanks for listening.