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WOW!!  We couldn’t ask for a much better start to our tournament season!!  We had the pleasure of taking delivery of the new Intrepid 375TE CC Open Liquid Fire.  Complete with a new truck wrap as well (pictures attached), we made the trip south to Pompano Beach and Sarasota, FL, for the first three events of the season. Paul Fleming of Intrepid Powerboats shot this video of the new boat running in less than ideal conditions during its first event.  The boat is absolutely amazing.  Please check it out… http://www.youtube.com/watch The season began with a bang, as we had the following finishes: ·        1st Place – NBOA Big Pig Shootout·        2nd Place...

Offshore This past week it has been extremely windy having few boats weathering the seas. On a charter yesterday Upper Keys Sportfishing caught about a dozen tuna into the 10-15 pound size and released many more smaller than 10 lbs. Also in the mix were dolphin in the 10-20 pound range along with multiple schoolies released. A good size wahoo was lost boatside of nearly 30 pounds. Sailfish and billfish in general were not targeted. Reef  Yellowtail snapper fishing remains excellent if you can withstand the waves. Good numbers of yellowtail mixed with mangrove as well as grouper are regular guests in...

Offshore The mahi bite slowed a bit during the week but good size mahi are still to be had when concentrating on the bigger trophy fish. The tuna bite continues to be good catching nice sized tuna in the 10-15 pound class trolling feathers. The billfish bite so far is the best I have seen this early for several years. We have raised and released several blue marlin and one white marlin yesterday on a combination of live bait and a few Marlin Bost lures. Colors "matching the hatch" are what is working well for us.  ReefsThe yellowtail and mangrove snapper...

Fishing Report May 2 Upper Keys Sportfishing and Capt Jorge Piñera Offshore We have not fished offshore after being out of town most of the week but there are reports of blackfin tuna at the humps as well as dolphin(mahi) offshore. The tunas have been taken on small feathers and the dolphin on several different bait presentations. Several weeks ago we took two nice blue marlin and will be pursuing them in the next few days.   Reefs  We went on a half day charter yesterday with a group from FL and limited on Gag and Red Grouper. The grouper bite is good...

We have had some beautiful weather here in south Florida this past week but the offshore fishing has been a little tough. There have been scattered mahi on weed lines from the edge on out but it has been very hit or miss,along the edge we have been finding scattered sailfish, some big kingfish, cobia & an occasional blackfin tuna all being caught on live baits in 100-200 ft. Also there have been amberjacks, mutton snapper & black and gag grouper on the wrecks in the 200ft range unfortunately the groupers have to be released until may 1st.   Thanks...