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he sailfish is one of the most commonly caught billfish. Due to its proclivity for shallower coastal waters and frequency of ascension to the surface, the odds of catching one of these beauties can be much greater than for other billfish.

There is little scientific certainty about the mysterious behavior of sailfish.

They exhibit a general migratory pattern throughout the year, but they often break their own rules and show up unexpectedly.

Summer sailfish catches are generally more associated with the Gulf of Mexico, yet they do appear on the Atlantic coast this time of year, as well.

Sailfishing in the Florida Keys is usually a late autumn and early spring

bite. It can be an absolute catching frenzy. However, in July, following the passage of tropical storm Elsa, sailfish were seen tailing at the surface, cruising the waves along a strong current line off of Marathon Key. It was a bizarre and welcomed phenomenon.

The conditions that followed the storm created a concise current line, with greener nearshore waters touching the blue water, and a milky powder-blue highway running down the center. Sailfish were spotted swimming east to west at the top of the waves, and seemed to dive deeper to circle back. The locals are no strangers to this phenomenon that occurs in the Keys. Though the time of year may be unpredictable, anglers are always ready to make the most of it.

This type of fishing requires polarized sunglasses and a tower boat. Slowly creeping through the powder blue highway, scan the waves for black torpedo shapes or blobs that resemble black garbage bags. Hunt for the opportunity to sight cast live baits.

Without the visual vantage of a tower, trolling lures or bump trolling live bait may be more productive than trying to spot them from deck level.

Sailfish truly are an incredible and unpredictable species. Very few have been successfully tagged, and few have held a tag long enough to transmit much information. Of those tagged for up to a year, their patterns were generally erratic. They seem to be extremely transient, foraging and spawning in many different coastal regions, predictably unpredictable, like majestic aquatic gypsies.

Commonalities in their behavior are that they primarily stay within a water temperature of approximately 80 degrees; they mostly stay near the surface, rarely diving below 300 feet; and they exhibit extremely curious evening routines. All of the transmissions showed sailfish spending the evening within 30 feet of the surface, descending briefly before sunrise and sunset. They were also observed to be active nightly, seemingly unaffected by lunar phases.

Help uncover the mysteries of sailfish by reporting tagged fish or by visiting billfish.org to purchase a tagging kit. Remember to handle sailfish with care and revive them before release when necessary.

Capt. Quinlyn Haddon fishes with Blue Magic Charters out of Marathon, Fla. Check her out her Instagram @CaptainQuinlyn, her website CaptainQuinlyn.com, or call (504) 920-6342.

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or Matt Metelsky, daddy-daughter time with his 17-year-old is a little more involved than a trip to the ice cream parlor. Matt’s daughter Lily is a rising high school senior. She loves nothing more than waking up at 2 a.m. to run 85 miles off Virginia Beach and troll the edge of the Continental Shelf with her dad.

In late June, the duo fished the Virginia Beach Tuna Tournament, where Lily placed second in the Lady Angler division with a yellowfin that weighed 39.9 pounds. But that’s not her biggest tuna to-date. Her heaviest yellowfin weighed 44 pounds. She caught it last summer, and at 5-foot-4 and 115 pounds, it took her about 15 minutes to haul it in stand-up with a belt.

“I don’t know. We do wood work on the side, so we load wood, and I guess that gives you some back strength,” Lily offered as explanation for feats of fishing strength. “We always stay active. With Dad, it’s work hard, play harder.”

Lily’s strength and stamina are a given considering she qualified and is working as an oceanfront lifeguard at Virginia Beach this summer. Matt, however, has another explanation for his daughter’s skill, as well as her love for this hard-core style of fishing. Lily was 5 years old when Matt purchased his Contender 25 with twin 150s. At a tender age, Lily cut her teeth going toe-to-toe with hard-pulling spadefish in 50 feet of water, 20 miles offshore.

“I’m thinking the technique she picked up with those spades when she was little just kind of morphed over into the tuna,” Matt said. “It really amazes

me she is able to battle those things stand-up.”

Lily began joining Matt for long days offshore when she turned 13. She was 15 the summer of 2019 when she was first physically able to handle a yellowfin—a 26-pounder—by herself.

But pumping and reeling aren’t Lily’s only deck duties. She helps rig and bait and steers the boat while her dad deploys an eight-rod spread on the Gulf Stream.

Last Jan. 11, she manned the helm while Matt battled a 550-pound bluefin. When the handle on the 50w reel broke under the stress, it was Lily’s idea to improvise with a screwdriver and electrical tape to eventually land that fish.

The peak yellowfin season is June and July out of Rudee Inlet. Matt and Lily make five or six trips a summer, often with friends. Normal days consist of two or three tuna, some bonita and mahi, and occasionally a white marlin.

Two or three times a year, January and February bluefin trips are just for the two of them. There aren’t many people interested in waiting on one big bite in brutal mid-winter conditions, anyway.

“She’s just tough as nails,” Matt said of his daughter. “I don’t know how else to describe it. She’s just tough.”

Lily doesn’t seem to perceive any hardship. She considers herself lucky to be able to spend time with her dad on the water.

“When we’re out there on the boat, it’s just so peaceful,” she said. “I pretty much sleep the whole time. When that reel goes off, that’s my alarm.”

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But there’s a quieter side to St. Andrew. With access points spread throughout Bay County, skinny water is where it’s at for redfish anglers.

The water is clear and maintains predictably high salinity thanks to limited freshwater inflow. There are vast prairies of spartina grass, cut through with channels, as well as acres of sand, mud and grass flats. Much of it is accessible only to shallow-draft vessels, and therein is the allure for folks seeking respite 2 FLORIDA

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from party pontoons and jet skis. When you’re in less than 2 feet of water, the only other boats you’ll see are kayaks, paddleboards and flats skiffs.

“I fell in love with inshore fishing and kayaking here because of the ease and lower expense,” said Josh Damon, who hails from Fountain, Fla., about 25 miles north of Panama City. “I enjoy the tranquility and access to areas big boats can’t reach.”

The fishing is good, too. Damon is a passionate angler who enjoys inshore tournaments, so he specializes in redfish on artificials. He said a good day might results in five or six reds from 18 to 24 inches, with a few trout or flounder thrown into a mixed bag.

He fishes from a paddle-powered kayak, which is perfectly at home in the one-and-a-half-foot depths he prefers. Redfish are comfortable and free from predatory threats in extreme shallows, and it’s also where the food is.

St. Andrew reds grow fat on mullet, mud minnows, pinfish and a variety of other little baitfish.

With good visibility, sight fishing is a good tactic. This time of year, there’s usually a good topwater bite in the mornings and evenings, and walking baits are a favorite of many anglers.

Damon, however, fishes soft plastics almost exclusively. With tackle modifications, they can be worked across the top, bounced on the bottom or fished anywhere in between. They’re delicate enough for sight casting and also make great chunk-and-wind search baits.

“Aside from the versatility of a soft-plastic bait, I don’t want a fish flopping around in the kayak with six hooks,” Damon said.

At St. Andrew, Damon’s go-to lure is a 4-inch D.O.A. C.A.L. Shad Tail rigged on a 1/8-ounce 4/0 Screw Lock jig head. He likes the Houdini color and dresses it with Kings Stank Stick, a scent product he said increases hookups. He fishes variations of this set-up, but this basic rig gets the job done.

For safety reasons as well effective fishing, planning is key. Damon studies wind and tide before selecting a put-in on a given day. With the whole bay to choose from, he’s looking for a location that will provide long drifts over productive water.

Follow Josh Damon’s adventures on his Facebook page Josh Damon’s Inshore Fishing. For information on kayaking the Panama City area, check out Sunjammers at www.sunjammers.com.

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ith the dog days upon us, night fishing can be productive and much more comfortable than slogging it out during the heat of the day.

Many fish feed aggressively in the still of the night. They can be

targeted by anglers in multiple ways in different locations. Here are a few options to try. I’ve utilized all three methods and found success with each.

• Perhaps the coolest strategy is wade fishing in the dark. Large trout and redfish move unbelievably shallow under the cover of the night sky, and tossing a topwater plug on the flats can result in exciting explosions.

I typically wade in the dark without lights, other than a headlamp for changing lures or unhooking fish. With vision impaired, your sense of hearing is on high alert. Nighttime is quiet on the water, which makes the commotion of a topwater take startling. It can give the impression that a fish is larger than it really is. That’s part of the excitement of a topwater bite!

For safety reasons, I only wade at night in areas I know well and have fished many times.

• Another way to beat the heat is to focus on dock lights. This can be done from the dock, a kayak or a boat. Many canal homes have lights, both under water and above the surface. Lights attract baitfish, which in-turn attract the gamefish we target.

Trout, reds and snook are all drawn to baitfish around lights at night. I like to target these areas with smaller lures. In this situation, I’ve had a lot of success throwing my Knockin Tail Lures, which are soft-plastic paddletails with a built-in rattle. Small, lipped hard baits can also be very productive around canal lights. I prefer natural colors, with some shade of white or clear and some silver mixed in.

• Fish also feed around rock jetties at night. The setup for this bite requires a little more work, but it can yield terrific results. When jetty fishing, I bring a generator and two 1,500 watt stage lights.

These areas typically have more current, so I fish slightly larger lipped hard lures, but I still go with the smallest lure I can work properly in the current. I stick with the same color pattern as mentioned earlier.

The channel and surf side of the rocks can both be productive depending on the tide, water clarity and bait presence. I recommend pointing one light in each direction until you determine which areas have the best conditions.

Night fishing definitely brings new challenges, but it can offer some of the best catching of the summer. Remember, safety first and don’t fish alone.

Capt. Michael Okruhlik is the inventor of Knockin Tail Lures, Controlled Descent Lures and the owner of www.MyCoastOutdoors.com.

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Capt. Katie Jo Davis, of KD Outdoors Fishing Charters, said scalloping out of Crystal River and Homosassa has been great.

“It’s been fantastic. It’s been a lot better year than the last few to be sure,” she said. “They have also been larger than in recent years. The quantity and quality are very good, and I expect it to continue into August and September.”

Davis said they are finding scallops six and seven at a time in 2 to 6 feet of water. She took her 6-year-old out, and it took them about an hour to get their 2-gallon limit.

Up in Steinhatchee, there are reports of plentiful scallops. Headed north out of the river, scallopers are seeing tons of scallops in 6- to 7-foot depths.

The bottom is loaded with them, but they are on the small side. Headed south, scallops are running larger, but there are not as many. Either way, quick limits are being reported.

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he snook fishing in the backcountry and glades area has been epic lately and the only issue we have is the constant afternoon thunderstorms. Guiding here in the Keys and Capt. Greg Poland 305.393.3327 | gregpoland.com Glades as long as I have, I made sure when I purchased my new Instagram: gregpoland Contender, that I opted for a Sirus XM Satellite radio so that I keep an eye out on the weather, which direction it’s going, and Facebook: Fishing in the Florida Keys with Capt. Greg Poland have had good luck navigating around the afternoon storms.

My new boat has been simply amazing and I want to thank the crew at GTB Boats in Key Largo for getting it all together and keeping me on the water chasing fish whether its deep in the backcountry or out on the refine.

If you find yourself in the backcountry load up your bait gregpolandphotography.com well with pinfish or pilchards and cast them into the gregpolandstudios.com potholes or shorelines and hold on tight, as I will bet there will be a snook in your future! I like a 7ft 15-20lb spin rod loaded with beaded line along with a heavy duty jighead or a sinker with a circle hook, put your live bait of choice on and start prospecting along the shoreline. Another great option is the same tackle with a cork about 6ft away from a live bait. Here are a few photos from my last few trips, if you have time to get away and want to come and check out my new ride and how I have it rigged, give me a call or stop by the Lorelei to say hello.

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ith an unexpected break in our summer season, we finally took to some time on the water for our family. My wife and I set out to cross out two species from her list, tarpon and shark. We headed out through the backcountry waters of the Flamingo Everglades with our target species in mind on what was a beautiful summer day! On our first, and each stop thereafter we found one of our two targets almost immediately, but they, in typical tarpon fashion would not eat, at least not on this day. We kept grinding finding several other tarpon and some goliath grouper to mix up the fun. Not wanting to disappoint my beautiful wife, I took and unplanned route back with the idea of giving the illusive tarpon, one last try before we head back. I chose an area with a dark bottom, knowing this is a preferred stomping ground for our target.

After a slow start at this stop, we ‘jumped’ our first fish. Albeit in the 30

lb. class, and it was the highlight of my day to see my wife smile after the acrobatic display. We hung in there as the bite came in spurts, of course they fed when THEY wanted to. It wasn’t long before we got one tarpon ‘to the hand’, which was followed quickly by a few others! As luck would have it, I noticed a few small black-tip sharks circling the boat, so I strategically placed a second bait in the water, and to my surprise, it too was taken almost immediately by our second target. Albeit in rapid fashion, one decision put a huge smile on my wife’s face and she was able to check off two additional species from her list! Call and join us during what’s left of this summer season.

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ummertime is still in full effect across the Florida Keys, and what comes along with it? Some great fishing. If you’ve ever fished the Florida Keys in the summer months there’s one thing you do know. The variety of fishing here is definitely not lacking.

Here you’ll find everything from flats and backcountry fishing to reef and offshore fishing. In the backcountry, mid March through mid July is peak season for Tarpon, and the snook bite definitely won’t leave you disappointed either.

Often the summer time brings calmer seas along with it which makes for a great day of Mahi fishing offshore. Stay closer in on the reef and you’ll have a great chance of catching a mangrove or mutton snapper.

To me nothing beats a day of Mahi fishing.

The sound of screaming drag and the show you get when you are hooked up is nothing short of a good adrenaline rush. But if time allows, and you are fortunate enough to come across some structured bottom as you are headed inshore, you might just hook up on a mutton snapper leading you to the best of both worlds.

Mutton snapper can be caught all year long here in the Florida Keys, but starting in May they begin to spawn bringing on a hot bite throughout the summer months. Mutton Snapper are excellent to eat. The meat is white and

flaky and offers a sweet to mild taste.

Sure the taste is hard to beat, but the catch is even more exciting.

I normally prefer catching mutton snapper by drift fishing when the currents are slow. This allows me to cover a larger area of ground than when I am anchored. I use braid for my main line attached to 40 pounds of fluorocarbon leader, a 2 oz egg sinker, and a 4/0 circle hook. I personally prefer using live pinfish as bait, as I’ve had the best experience with those, although my last trip I found another type of setup just as effective.

We were heading in from a day of Mahi fishing off Tavernier Key. The Mahi came easy that day. We found a thick weed line and frigate birds at 280 feet. The dolphin were on the smaller side, but plenty around. Heading in the gps showed what looked like structured bottom in 125 feet of water. We were set up for Mahi fishing that day, but happened to have 3 pounds of lead on board. With no live bait we decided to cut the belly out one of the Mahi’s we caught, attach it to a 13/0 circle hook using 100 pounds of fluorocarbon leader. Definitely not the usually setup, but within 5 minutes of drifting along the rocky bottom with the current ripping we caught a decent size mutton snapper.

Between the mahi and the mutton it definitely made for a fabulous fish fry that night.

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world. If you want to bottom fish we offer awesome grouper, snapper, and dozens of different reef species just a few miles off Marathon’s coast on gulf or Atlantic side. If you prefer the flats, back country, bridge fishing tarpon, cobia, permit, bonefish, snook, redfish, pompano, permit, African pompano, and may species of grouper, snapper, and jacks are available between Marathon and East Bahia Honda. If you want to deep drop with electric reels you can expect to catch tilefish, swordfish, black bellied rosies, queen snapper, snowy grouper, barre fish, wreck fish and many other grouper species. All around the Marathon Humps.

Marathon has the best overall variety, quantity and quality gamefish not only in the Florida Keys but, in my opinion, the world. It has a lot to do with currents and winds. The Gulf Stream can be one mile out or 40 miles out off of Marathon. We regularly take groups of anglers who charter us 4 or 5 days to try each type of options. Many of the gamefish mentioned above peak at different times of the year here in Marathon, but during this time of the year you have a legitimate shot at every one of them. Now a days with high tech electronics, you tube videos and social media everybody can become an instant pro, however if really want to learn the how’s, where’s and what’s you should book a charter or five with a well-established charter service and you will learn more in one day than you would trying to learn from those modern ways. Also remember during the heat of the summer keep your baits deep and slow.

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arathon Florida Keys is where we live and fish. In my opinion, the waters around our ten-mile rock are the best overall fishing in the Florida Keys. If you want to catch world class offshore fish like mahi, tuna, wahoo, sailfish, amber jack, marlin, etc., the waters off the shore of Marathon and out 25 miles to the humps are some of the best in the

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That’s when it’s important to remember—don’t cut the line and let the bird fly away with it attached. This will lead to entanglement, resulting in death of that bird and possibly others as well. Instead, follow these simple steps to unhook the bird: Reel. Remove. Release.

How else can you help a seabird or wading bird?

1. Wear safety glasses and enlist a partner for help.

2. Reel the bird in slowly and lift it from the water using a hoop net.

Even a large pelican weighs only 4-8 pounds 3. Grasp the bird by the head just behind the eyes and fold the wings against the body. For pelicans, hold the beak, keeping the mouth slightly open so it can breathe. Cover the bird’s head with a cloth to keep it calm.

4. Never pull the hook out but carefully push the end through the skin, cut off the barb and back the hook out using pliers or clippers. If the bird is entangled, remove all line.

5. Release the bird (if healthy) by placing it on the ground near the water and allowing it to take off.

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1. Don’t feed the birds, which teaches them to approach where they are more likely to be hooked.

2. Dispose of filleted bones where birds can’t get them—in a trash can with lid or at home.

Bones of a filleted fish will become lodged in or tear throats, stomachs and intestines leading to the death of that bird .

3. Cover bait buckets and take unused bait home.

4. Dispose of fishing line in a monofilament recycling bin or cut into small pieces and place in the trash.

5. Don’t leave your line unattended.

6. Cast carefully to avoid hooking a bird in flight or being snared on trees, bridge pilings etc.

7. Help others learn what to do when they accidentally hook a bird.

It’s pretty easy, once you know how.

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There’s no such thing as the dog days of August By: Capt. Bruce Andersen

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hen it comes to offshore fishing in the Florida Keys, late summer is one of my favorite times of the year when heading offshore. I’ve always felt that some of our best fishing was late in the summer, but this has been especially true the last few years and I’m looking forward to fishing in August more than ever this year. We’ve got awesome action on the reef with mangrove, mutton, and yellowtail snapper.

It’s also a great time to get some deep dropping in for deep water species like snowy grouper and tilefish which are both open until the end of the month in the South Atlantic waters. Most of all though our late summer fishing offshore for mahi mahi and blackfin tuna the last several years has been fantastic.

While early summer has traditionally been considered the peak time for great mahi fishing in the keys, late summer can offer some excellent fishing as well and it has gotten very consistent the last several years. Large schools of heavy lifter and gaffer size mahi with an occasional slammer can be a common occurrence. Weed patches, floating pieces of debris and birds are still all great signs of fish, but current edges with tightly formed weed lines are often my favorite thing to fish late in the mahi season. In addition to the mahi fishing, we usually start to see the beginning of some very good blackfin tuna fishing. This great tuna fishing normally starts in August and runs through the early fall months in places like the Islamorada hump and the other seamounts offshore of the Florida Keys.

Heading offshore this time of year is also a great way to beat the heat and the crowds. Although it can still be crowded offshore, especially on weekends it’s usually significantly less crowded than earlier in the summer and even on the hottest of summer days it’s always a little cooler offshore. On those hot slick calm days, you can even make your own breeze while trolling or sometimes just taking a ride to cool off. On my boat I’ll often pull in the lines and run a few miles at a time to cover ground to look for fish and cool everyone off at the same time. I call it turning on the fan. Be sure to head offshore sometime this month and get in on some awesome offshore action. Hopefully I’ll see you out there or better yet give me a call and I’ll take you out and show you myself!

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It’s A Great Time For Snapper Fishing By: Capt. Chris Johnson

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n the reef, where the mangroves and yellowtails respond well until mid-morning. When the sun gets high in the sky, the fish easily see your line, and the bite can slow a bit. This time of year, you’ll need to use abundant quantities of chum, as the snappers on the reef are spawning and react best to copious amounts of food. We supplement our block chum with YellowtailUp and ChumDrop. We concentrate on the hard-hitting mangrove snappers as they are aggressive and easier You will also find wahoo mixed in. more to catch. You’ll find them in Trolling around these weed lines the shallower, 35- to 50-foot, depths. They average two to with lures that resemble flying four pounds, but we’ve seen them as big as ten pounds! fish - typically blue and white Live baits do the trick or blue and black patterns - will most often, including pilchards, small pinfish to provide the best results. about three inches and small ballyhoo. Some days, the mangroves prefer a chunk bait, such as a slice of pinfish or ballyhoo, or even whole dead pilchards. Drift these baits back in your slick the same as yellowtailing, or fish them on jigheads at or near the bottom.

Slightly heavier leaders are required for the mangroves, as their teeth can cut through the lighter leaders rather easily. And, with these bigger baits, we like to use larger Owner SSW hooks in either 1/0 or 2/0 sizes. Jigheads ranging in size from ¼ to ½ ounce will cover all current conditions.

The yellowtails are less aggressive, so it’s best to use light 15-pound leaders, small #4 to #6 hooks and small chunks of cut bait, such as ballyhoo, to mimic the pieces of chum drifting in your slick.

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Our typical setup for mangrove and yellowtail fishing is a 7-foot Star Stellar Lite 12- to 20-pound rod with a Penn Slammer III 5500 reel spooled with 12-pound Berkley Pro Spec and 20- to 25-pound Seaguar fluoro leaders.

While you’re fishing on the Atlantic side, check out the deeper wrecks and artificial reefs for nice size mutton snapper and very large black grouper. The Marathon area sees muttons up to 20 pounds this time of year, although the majority are in the 12- to 14-pound class. Live ballyhoo, pinfish or cigar minnows are the baits of choice.

For the last couple of years, we’ve had a pretty consistent run of dolphin during August and September. This time of year, there are lots of weed lines and giant pads of grass, which is where you’ll find most of the dolphin action.

You will also find wahoo mixed in. Trolling around these weed lines with lures that resemble flying fish - typically blue and white or blue and black patterns - will provide the best results. Also look for birds picking away at the grass, which will help you eliminate a lot of empty water in your search for dolphin.

Those with an electric reel setup can search the bottom, looking for any sort of hill or deep depression to find tile fish, rosefish ad snowy grouper. Squid is the best bait for this.

Lobster season opens August 6 and brings with it an influx of boaters not familiar with the Keys waters. Be mindful of the additional boat traffic and be on the lookout for dive flags indicating the presence of lobster hunters in the water.

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— Capt. Chris Johnson specializes in offshore, reef/wreck, gulf/ bay, sailfish, shark and tarpon fishing with SeaSquared Charters, docked at Faro Blanco Resort and Yacht Club in Marathon. You can reach him at 305743-5305, http:// SeaSquaredCharters.com.

For daily fishing reports with pictures, please click over to http:// Facebook.com/ MarathonFishing.

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A 12-foot female smalltooth sawfish collected by Monroe County Sheriff ’s Office near Marvin Key. Credit: Monroe County Sheriff ’s Office.

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A 16-foot female smalltooth sawfish collected by FWC in the Florida Keys.

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Investigating death – what we can learn from recent sawfish mortalities.

everal institutions conduct research activities on the biology, distribution, and ecology of endangered smalltooth sawfish in the United States. These partners include state and federal governments, universities, nonprofits, museums, and international organizations. Results of these research projects inform management decisions and enhance recovery efforts for this endangered species. In this Sawfish News we are going to focus on the information we gather from necropsies, the thorough examination and dissection of sawfish carcasses.

The purpose of necropsies is to collect samples for gaining insight into the biology of the species and to attempt to determine the cause of death. Necropsies of sawfish which have died in the wild provide the opportunity to collect data necessary for understanding age, growth, maturity, and reproduction. In the case of other, non-endangered species this type of biological data is typically gathered by sacrificing some individuals within the population. But sacrificing any endangered sawfish is not an option given their reduced population size, so carcass recoveries provide scientists with these valuable opportunities.

Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) sawfish biologists recently responded to collect several large smalltooth sawfish which had died in the Florida Keys. Curiously all were large females; one a mature 16-foot female, https://www.facebook.com/FWCResearch/photos/a.611845082164895/4713223488693680 and another an immature female measuring 12 feet, 4 inches long https://www. facebook.com/floridakeyssheriff/posts/10157727440136816. The 16foot sawfish was particularly interesting as it was the longest measured by scientists in the United States since research began on the species.

There were no obvious causes of death for any of the sawfish recovered from the Keys this spring (whether natural or environmental); however, a number of samples were collected from each. At the very least though, valuable life history information will continue be collected from each carcass due to the swift response from Keys-based FWC Fish and Wildlife Research Institute staff and Monroe County Sheriff’s Office personnel to secure the carcasses for study.

Sawfish biologists are working to learn as much as possible from all samples they collect from necropsies. The vertebrae will be used to

determine the age of each sawfish. Reproductive tissues will be used to assess the reproductive status (mature or immature) of each dead sawfish. and used in combination with age and length to fine tune both age and length at maturity for females in the wild population. DNA collected from tissue samples will be sequenced to compare to other sawfish throughout Florida, which is useful in understanding population structure, diversity within the population, and both the size and health of the current population in comparison to the historical one.

Stable isotopic analyses can be run on tissue samples and compared to a variety of potential prey items in the environment to determine the diet and trophic position of smalltooth sawfish within the food web.

Blood samples are collected from sawfish to investigate reproductive status as hormones within the blood can be used to assess reproductive maturity and timing. Samples are preserved for further analysis in the future which may provide insight into environmental conditions at their time of death. Collection of the sawfish and necropsy activities were conducted pursuant to NMFS ESA Permit No. 21043.

If you catch or see a sawfish (living or dead), take a quick photograph of the sawfish, estimate its size, note your location, and please share the details with scientists. The details of your sightings or catches of sawfish help scientists collect valuable information to help monitor the population and track the recovery progress. You can share your information by visiting www.SawfishRecovery.org, calling 1-844-4SAWFISH, emailing sawfish@myfwc.com, or submitting the information through the FWC Reporter app.

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hether you call them Mahi-Mahi, Dolphinfish, Dorado, or any of the dozens of names used to refer to them, most agree that Mahi are an extraordinary fish. Their ability to grow and reproduce at astounding rates, coupled with their tendency to travel in large hungry schools, makes them a favorite among Florida Keys fishing enthusiasts.

Mahi are also a blast to catch, take incredible photos, and taste delicious! If you are headed to the Keys and plan to fish for Mahi, some tips can help your trip succeed.

by the rise and fall of the boat. However, the Mate cannot set the line too long either, as this would allow the fish to tangle with other lines.

At this point, hopefully, an entire school of Mahi has settled in behind the boat, and the anglers are happily all fighting fish. If you found this helpful information, there is a much more in-depth version of this article available on the Main Attraction website here:

Keeping an Eye Out

Captains have an advantage from their tower when it comes to spotting floaters and fish in the water, but Mates and anglers have an essential role to play as well. Standing on the deck gives you the ability to spot a set of birds against the backdrop of the sky better than from a tall tower. Mates should keep their heads on a swivel and constantly be on the lookout for birds while they perform their tasks. Having the anglers watch for birds on the horizon can help spot fish while also being a great way to keep them from getting seasick!

For the Birds

If you see a large set of birds moving at high speed on the open water, they usually follow large schools of Skipjack Tuna or Bonita. Trying to get baits in front of a very fast-moving set like this can often feel like chasing your tail and waste a lot of precious time. Instead, look for smaller sets of birds around a weed line or a floater, as this is where you will most likely find Mahi. If you do not visibly see the fish, try putting out a simple spread of 2-4 baits and troll by to see if any fish are there. A small group of large Frigate birds (1-3) is an exciting find as it often indicates a set of big fish. In this scenario, the Captain should immediately run ahead of the birds, spot the large Mahi, and point to where it will be in about 30 seconds, not where it currently is. This technique greatly increases the odds that the Mate will pitch the bait in front of the fish, triggering a bite.

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We weren’t really roughing it much at all.

Tallent and our other guide, Nick Potts, rolled cartloads of gear up the trail to our campsite near the mouth of Hazel Creek. Three other clients and I sat in camp chairs and got to know each other while the guides set up camp. That set the mood for the weekend. The camping was comfortable, everything was provided for. All we were expected to do was fish hard, enjoy ourselves and return to hot meals around a campfire each evening.

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The creek itself is on the large side of typical for the park. It is cold and clear with a relatively flat gradient that makes for easy streamside hiking.

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