Florida Keys & Miami Fishing Report: Tides, Targets, and Hot Spots for September 21, 2025

Artificial Lure here with your local Sunday fishing report for the Florida Keys and Miami, coming at you on September 21, 2025. If you’re looking for that perfect tide, today’s your day: Key West’s high tide hits at 10:31 am and again at 10:42 pm, with lows at 3:46 am and 4:13 pm. Over in Miami, high tide at Newport Fishing Pier crests at 8:41 am and again at 8:56 pm—both areas are sitting in a strong tidal flow, which cranks up your chances for fast action according to tides4fishing.com and Tide-Forecast.com. Sunrise snagged us at 7:08 am in Miami, sunset’s at 7:17 pm, and you’ll find similar times in the Keys with a little extra light down south.

Weather’s picture-perfect: National Weather Service reports light northeast to east breezes and dry skies as high pressure holds over the region. Seas are calm—perfect for both offshore runs and working the backcountry out of skiffs or kayaks.

Fish seem to know it’s Sunday too—there’s great movement on the flats, and activity’s been strong with snook and tarpon rolling early from Tavernier all the way up through Biscayne Bay. Reports from Key West guides say bonefish are tailing up on the oceanside flats at first light, and permit are patrolling those same edges. Just north, anglers near Miami Beach are boating solid keeper mangrove snapper on structure and working deeper cuts at Government Cut with live pilchards and shrimp—can’t go wrong with those staples this week.

Big news for offshore chasers: dolphin (mahi-mahi) are running just beyond the reef with fast hits on trolled ballyhoo and artificials in bright pinks and chartreuse. Doubles and even triples are coming in, especially near Fowey Light and the 409 hump, so don’t pass up a weed line if you run into one. Reports have a few blackfin tuna mixed in, hitting dark feathers at daybreak.

For bottom dwellers, yellowtail snapper has been steady on small pilchards and cut bait off Marathon and Big Pine. Out at the reefs, mutton snapper have been caught on the change of tide—best shots have been dusk and dawn with a bit of current moving. Remember, red snapper in South Atlantic federal waters will be closed commercially after Sept 24, according to NOAA, so get your catch in now if you’re targeting them.

Best baits this weekend: inshore, nothing beats live shrimp, small pilchards, or Gulp! jerk shads. Offshore, rig a skirted ballyhoo or toss a shiny Yo-Zuri hardbait in any floating sargassum—mahi can’t help themselves. For artificials, try a green or root beer soft paddle tail on the flats for snook or trout; for bonefish, a small crab or shrimp pattern fly is deadly right now.

Local hot spots worth your time:
- **Channel 5 Bridge**: snook and snapper after sunset on outgoing tide.
- **Islamorada Humps**: dorado and blackfin at sunrise.
- **Flamingo Bayside**: steady red and snook bite at daybreak.
- **Haulover Inlet jetties**: mangrove and yellowtail on cut bait as the sun fades.

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Episode Transcript

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Artificial lore. Here with your local Sunday fishing report for
the Florida Keys and Miami coming at you on September
twenty first, twoenty twenty five. If you're looking for that
perfect tide, today's your day. Key West's high tide hits
at ten thirty one am and again at ten forty
two pm, with lows at three forty six am and

(00:21):
four thirteen pm. Over in Miami, high tide at Newport
Fishing Pier crests at eight forty one am and again
at eight fifty six pm. Both areas are sitting in
a strong tidal flow which is at to bites weather.

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Fish seem to know it's Sunday two. There's great movement
on the flats and activity has been strong with snook
and tarp and rulin early from Tabernier all the way
up through Biscayne Bay. Reports from Key West Guy, it'd
say bonefish or tailing up on the ocean side flats
at first light and permit or patrolling those same edges.
Just north. Anglers near Miami Beach are boating solid keeper

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mangrove snapper on structure and working deeper cuts at Government
Cut with live pilchards and shrimp cantell wrong with those staples.
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