07-15-2002, 12:19 AM
The best news in a while is that there are some dolphin to be caught off the Miami area. Today, those boats that ran beyond 15 miles reported seeing little to nothing and catching nothing as well. We found two schools of schoolie size dolphin 14 and 12 miles out. The first school was around a small piece of bamboo. The second was in open water with no structure around. Lisa, along with her husband Richard, her brother Richard, and her father Richard had a blast catching 13 dolphin. We decided to run in to the reef and try it for a while as we had plenty of dolphin. There were reports of a few sailfish, a few bonito, and a few kingfish being caught. Our mono leader bait got cut off by a toothy critter, the one with the wire leader never got touched, and we missed a hook up on another fish. Everyone on board wanted to catch a few more fish. They didn't care what kind or whether it was edible or not. I ran in to do some barracuda fishing. At the first location, we got invaded by the jet ski crowd. After going out to catch a few larger baits, we tried the second spot and hit pay dirt. After landing and releasing 3 cudas and missing about 4 other strikes, it was time to enjoy the ride and weather as we headed back in.<br><br>Captain Dave Kostyo<br>Knot Nancy Fishing Charters<br>305 620-5896 Charter<br>305 732-2628 Beeper<br>www.rnfl.com/knotnancy<br>nkostyo@bellsouth.net<br><br>