11-27-2004, 10:16 PM
For the past two days, there has been a general lack of current along Miami Beach inside of 200'. On Friday we had a few goals to accomplish. The first was for my customer to learn where and how to catch live bait at the various times of year in the Haulover and Government Cut areas. The herring were thick at Government and it didn't take long to fill the live well. Next, it was learning how to rig kite rods. This to went very well. We were able to barely keep the extra light kite up for about an hour before the wind died off to almost nothing. Fishing off Key Biscayne, we found no current and an offshore drift. Same conditions at the sea buoy. Out in 400' we picked up some current, blue water, and still drifted offshore. We didn't even have a bait get nervous the entire morning. Live chumming didn't help and the morning passed by very quickly. The lessons learned about bait were going to be put to good use the next day.
Saturday (11/27) morning, Fabio and Molly Nick from North Miami Beach wanted a relaxing few hours on the water to get away from the business life. We picked up some bait from Mike on the Greenline and headed out Haulover Inlet. We were greeted with NW wind and swells pushing in from the E/SE. This made for some very sloppy sea conditions. It felt like we were in a washing machine. Like yesterday, we had no current and an offshore drift. Today, however, we caught a large spanish mackeral off the downrigger in 118' of water. Moving offshore to 300' got us some blue water, north current and continued sloopy seas. Both Fabio and I spotted the working birds to our north at the same time. A short run to the area that the birds were working and while putting out baits to slow troll, we got into a school of dolphin in 360'. The largest was a 10# cow, with the other 7 fish in the large schoolie size. Once the school left, we got no hits the remainder of the morning. Despite the sloppy seas, Fabio and Molly were able to relax and enjoy some good South Florida fishing.
Captain Dave Kostyo
Knot Nancy Fishing Charters
305 620-5896 Charter
305 732-2628 Beeper
305 965-9454 Cell
www.knotnancy.com
nkostyo@bellsouth.net
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Saturday (11/27) morning, Fabio and Molly Nick from North Miami Beach wanted a relaxing few hours on the water to get away from the business life. We picked up some bait from Mike on the Greenline and headed out Haulover Inlet. We were greeted with NW wind and swells pushing in from the E/SE. This made for some very sloppy sea conditions. It felt like we were in a washing machine. Like yesterday, we had no current and an offshore drift. Today, however, we caught a large spanish mackeral off the downrigger in 118' of water. Moving offshore to 300' got us some blue water, north current and continued sloopy seas. Both Fabio and I spotted the working birds to our north at the same time. A short run to the area that the birds were working and while putting out baits to slow troll, we got into a school of dolphin in 360'. The largest was a 10# cow, with the other 7 fish in the large schoolie size. Once the school left, we got no hits the remainder of the morning. Despite the sloppy seas, Fabio and Molly were able to relax and enjoy some good South Florida fishing.
Captain Dave Kostyo
Knot Nancy Fishing Charters
305 620-5896 Charter
305 732-2628 Beeper
305 965-9454 Cell
www.knotnancy.com
nkostyo@bellsouth.net
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