Our fishing is continuing to get better, with blackfin tuna showing up on some of our deeper wrecks off Key West.

Earlier in the week, the reef and tuna fishing was slow. Angler Paul Depoo of Key West had a chance to get out deep dropping with us and managed a 25-pound snowy grouper in 650-feet of water, as well as a large barrel fish. But as the week progessed, fishing got better and better.

On Friday, anglers Ryan Muntin, Rob Neives and Julie Kunke teamed up for 5 blackfin tuna to 23 pounds, as well as a number of yellow jacks to 15 pounds. On a Saturday outing, Kuhnke, along with anglers John Stuempfig, Dale Emily and Noah Crawford, all of Key West, boated five blackfin to 20 pounds. It's a late afternoon/early-evening bite, so it’s a great chance to get out for a half day and get in some exciting fishing.There have been some sailfish around, but we haven't really been targeting them... that will change this week.

This weekend gave us some great fishing. We started off the trip bright and early Friday Morning.  We picked up our bait on the way out and started running north. We finally found some decent blue water about 12 miles up and put the baits out. After a really slow morning we started getting some kingfish bites. Then the sailfish turned on! We had one come up on the kite but he didn't want to eat, so we pitched to him with a spinner and he took the bait. While we were fighting him we hooked another but pulled him off.  We had a few more swing and misses and finally landed another. We ended the day going 2-5 on sailfish and having a bunch of kingfish bites.

Saturday morning we decided to run back to the north where we had luck on Friday. There was no wind and no current. We fished up there for the morning without a bite. We ran back south about 15 miles and stuck it out the rest of the day and right at the end we got some good action. We caught a nice kingfish then landed a sail! It was a great end to a really SLOW DAY! 

Sunday we had two half day trips. I decided to run south about 7 miles and found some really beautiful blue water and put the baits out. Right off the bat we hook a sailfish on the  Kite but he shakes the hook free. We send them back out and get covered up by kingfish. Near the end of the half day we hooked a double header dolphin and sail! We caught and released both to fight another day.

On our second half we ran right back out to the same area. It started off slow then got really good. We hooked a double-header sailfish and landed both! They were Mary's and Mike's first sails! They did an awesome job on the fish! Some time went by and we caught a nice kingfish in the 30lb range. Then we got another double header sailfish hooked. We ended up losing both fish but, hey, can't complain!

Nice Kingfish caught off Lauderdale!

It was another great weekend fishing off of Ft Lauderdale on the PIMA II.

Captain Joe McGivern - Email Captain Joe McGivern

Well, the time has come for us to move down the road a bit. We will be taking both the Low Profile and Justified down to fish for the giant bluefin this year. Capt Keith Burnet will be running Justified while I will be running Low Profile. We will be docked at Portside Marina with fishing just minutes and away. It will be great having two boats this year and having a seasoned Captain such as Keith, working side by side, has me more than excited to start there in the upcoming week. Please feel free to contract me if anyone wants to hop on board. We will be fishing there until the end of January. Stay tuned as next week I will give a little outlook on our trolling tactics and gear we use fishing in Morehead!!!

Captain Joe Trainor - Email Captain Joe