Fishing Reports by Capt. Bouncer Smith

Fishing Report for Miami, Florida - Red Hot Mackerel Red hot mackerel make for fun fishing. The mackerel have been running real well for the last couple of weeks. We have not had the opportunity to fish for them due to the fact that most of our charters are targeting the bigger ga more...
Capt. Bouncer Smith - Miami

Fishing Report for Miami, Florida - Sailfish Have Arrrived It must be November. We have our new Mercury Optimax 225s on the boat and the fish are biting. We were off the water last week while the new engines were installed and we took a little trip to North Carolina. Ron, our mate more...
Capt. Bouncer Smith - Miami

Fishing Report for Miami, Florida - Sailfish and Swordfish Windy would best describe fishing this past weekend. Worse, is supposed to be the word for the next couple days. We fooled the weather men this time. We are at Dusky Sport Center, where they are mounting brand new Mercury more...
Capt. Bouncer Smith - Miami

Fishing Report for Miami, Florida - Miami Swordfish Tournament Winners What a week we are wrapping up. We had some great people out during the week, but the fish treated them and us terribly. Surface action and fishing in general was tough during the day. We fished wrecks, we kite f more...
Capt. Bouncer Smith - Miami

Fishing Report for Miami, Florida - Grouper and Birthday Snook What a beautiful weekend! It was a combination of great weather and good fishing. Sunday we went bottom fishing with a couple of brothers, who have fished with me for years. They have talked of catching snowy groupers fo more...
Capt. Bouncer Smith - Miami

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