Islamorada fishing report April 2018

The Islamorada fishing report for April 2018 should prove to be interesting. We are going to the Dry Tortugas on April 4th.  The month started out good with some blackfin tuna on the 2nd. We also got some snappers for dinner.

We did manage to fit in a field trip for the 7th graders at Treasure Village.

4-7

Finished the first day in the Dry Tortugas. Jim Lewis and Julie had a great time, We caught a lot of fish.  The action seemed to be non-stop. We caught Permits, Snappers ,Groupers some Amber Jacks. We released tons of fish. A shame we can’t take more home.

 

They had more then enough action. Permits, Snappers ,Groupers some AJs and lots of bites.

Second day in the Dry Tortugas, we had ok fishing with a large variety. We caught flag yellowtails, Mutton snappers and some permits. We released a lot of nice sized groupers and some red snappers

4-12. Back home in Islamorada, we had a morning trip with some guys from Ohio.  Great action today. We anchored in 85 feet of water and caught some large yellowtail snapper up to 5 lbs. They have a few bagful’s to take home.

4-13

Had a big group at today. A wedding party had great action today. A variety of yellowtails including some large ones.

4-14

Had a group from New Jersey today. We had a good day fishing offshore. We did pretty well with a few small blackfin, some nice sized bull dolphin and a  very nice wahoo.

4-18

Had a couple of fun days fishing the reef. We caught some nice yellowtail snappers and released a few groupers. There seem to be a lot of groupers around. May 1st and the start of the season is coming fast.

4-20

The weather and the water were cooperating so we ran offshore this morning. We got into schools of small dolphin and had a great day.

4-26

The blackfin tuna fishing has been very good the last couple of days. We are starting to catch a good amount of schoolie dolphin

4-27

This morning on a half day charter we caught some tunas and a couple of dolphins. In the afternoon we took the elementary school kids out for a fun afternoon. They had a great time snorkeling.

4-28

Dolphin fishing is really picking up. We had a great day today.