Islamorada is alive and well!! Both fishing and the weather this week were wonderful, with temps in the 80’s and sea temps around 78 along with light winds out of the ENE.
There has been a steady pick on the Sailfish all week. Some days were a little better than others but the fish were here to be caught. Most of the tactics this week were raising the fish from the deeper water. This is when you need lots of free, chumming bait. Pilchards have been plentiful thank goodness! With several hundred of them in your live-well one can’t go wrong!! The ballyhoo have also been steady moving in, but the cigar minnows have seemed to vanish. There also was a bit of a King Mackerel bite in the first part of the week up to 20lb’s so that’s a pretty good sign for the upcoming weeks. Finally the reef fishing stayed pretty consistent as we had some flow this week so the snappers continued to bite. We also found some nice schoolie Muttons in about 85 feet of water. The Mangroves have pretty much left the Oceanside and are now making a big push to the backside.
Not much for this upcoming Turkey week so tight lines and Happy Turkey Day.
Captain John Oughton
