Also known as Dolphinfish, Dorado, Dollies. Bait, technique, tide windows, and where the bite is on right now.
Hero spots in our coverage where Mahi Mahi is in season for May. Click through for the live forecast.
Out of season across our covered spots in May. Check back in September.
In Australia, fish FADs (Fish Aggregating Devices — government-deployed offshore in NSW/QLD/WA — find them on coordinates published by state fisheries) by pulling up 20–30 m off, casting plastics or stickbaits, and burley with chopped pilchard. Once one fish is hooked, leave it in the water — the school will follow, and you can sight-cast to the rest. Floating debris, weed lines and current edges hold fish offshore too — a single floating palm frond can hold dozens.
Tide is largely irrelevant for mahi — they're a blue-water pelagic over deep water. What matters is current edges (the colour change between two water masses), water temp 22°C+, and floating structure. The exception: where current pushes through a FAD or buoy, the windward / down-current side is where the fish stack up.
Moon phase has minimal documented effect on mahi. Solunar major and minor windows align with feeding bursts but the bigger driver is water temp and finding the fish. Mahi often feed actively all day in summer once located. Cloudy days arguably fish better than bright high-sun days.
NSW: no minimum size, bag of 10. QLD: no minimum, bag of 10. US (federal Atlantic / Gulf): 20" fork length, 10 per person Atlantic / no FL state limit Gulf — verify NOAA Highly Migratory Species rules. Mahi are short-lived (4 years max) and fast-growing — bag limits are generous for that reason.
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