Fishing Reports by Capt. Bouncer Smith

Fishing Report for Miami, Florida - Bottom Fishing Biggest Red Snapper Fishing stays at rock bottom. Another tough week has ended. We started the week with a tarpon trip that produced one tarpon of about ten pounds and a bunch of jack crevalle from 1 to 12 pounds. That was followed more...
Capt. Bouncer Smith - Miami

Fishing Report for Miami, Florida - Tough Fishing What a week. We had some very tough fishing lately. When we got back from Bimini, we suffered a week of fall slump. We had one trip all week and it was an evening snook trip. We did catch a couple nice fish. We had snook of 12 and 16 more...
Capt. Bouncer Smith - Miami

Fishing Report for Miami, Florida - Bimini Blast We just got back from another week in Bimini. In our last report, we said we had some cubera snapper and swordfish trips coming up. The cubera snapper were gone from the wrecks and the wind was too strong for swordfish. We had a more...
Capt. Bouncer Smith - Miami

Fishing Report for Miami, Florida - Hot Morning Action We went to Bimini , Bahamas this week and it was morning madness. The weather was too good. It was flat calm, clear and HOT. Our goal was bent rods and smiling faces. We started with wreck fishing north of the island at a spot k more...
Capt. Bouncer Smith - Miami

Fishing Report for Miami, Florida - Big Snook are Hot It is hard to imagine, but we have not gone daytime fishing in weeks. For over 20 years we fished 7:30 to 4 every day and some evenings. Now during the hot summer months we are fishing more at night than during the day. This is more...
Capt. Bouncer Smith - Miami

Fishing Report for Miami, Florida - Little Men / Big Fish The last week has been special for a couple of young anglers. Monday night we fished with the Arostegui family. 11 year old Martini is their primary angler although dad, a.k.a. Marty fishes with his fly rod most of the e more...
Capt. Bouncer Smith - Miami

Fishing Report for Miami, Florida - Night Fishing We had the MS worm! Thank goodness we got rid of it. Now we can talk about fishing again. We have done almost all of our fishing at night. For a while it was pretty tough to catch a swordfish. We went several nights with no bites or more...
Capt. Bouncer Smith - Miami

Fishing Report for Miami, Florida - Kid's Catches The last ten days have been a variety of action. We had a six year old out with his grandfather and mother. They wanted the young guy to catch some fish, with no angling rules to worry about. We have some short tough conventional rod more...
Capt. Bouncer Smith - Miami

Fishing Report for Miami, Florida - Jigs or Bait Variety is Fun Inshore and offshore, fishing was good the last few days. We had a group from Atlanta the last couple days, one of which loves to fish artificial lures. We armed him with a 1 ounce “pilchard” jig on 12 pound spinnin more...
Capt. Bouncer Smith - Miami

Fishing Report for Miami, Florida - Dolphin on Fly and Snook Boy did we have a hard day fishing last Wednesday! Rich Sullivan had planned on entertaining some clients, but they could not make it. He ask if he could do some fly fishing instead. We were glad to take him fly fishing fo more...
Capt. Bouncer Smith - Miami