Fishing Reports by Capt. Bouncer Smith

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

Fishing Report for Miami, Florida - Great Action in the Evening We actually had some time off this past week, but we are back in action now. Mark and Betty Jo Yorio fished with us the last two evenings. They wanted to try for sailfish and tuna the first evening. We left the dock abo more...
Capt. Bouncer Smith - Miami

Fishing Report for Miami, Florida - Big Fish Little Line Light tackle was the game the last 3 days, and we won. Benji Hiller and his son Gabriel fished Wednesday, Thursday and Friday with us. Their good friend Jack joined them Thursday and Friday. Wednesday Gab caught a sailfish on more...
Capt. Bouncer Smith - Miami

Fishing Report for Miami, Florida - There have been some big challenges in our fishing this week. Last Wednesday we fished all 8 and 12 pound tackle in place of our normal 20 pound. We had some rough luck keeping the fish on the hook that day, but did get 1 of 5 sailfish, a 30 pound bl more...
Capt. Bouncer Smith - Miami

Fishing Report for Miami, Florida - Spring fishing is still great. Last week we spent 3 days in Bimini catching yellowtail snappers, groupers, a big king, assorted jacks and a potential world record shark on fly, which was our primary goal. Friday evening tarpon fishing was good more...
Capt. Bouncer Smith - Miami

Fishing Report for Miami, Florida - Fishing was red hot on Saturday. We got off to a bad start with birthday boy Peter Katz, his son and his son-in-law. It seemed that the fish were biting our live pilchards and herring, but they would not stay on the hook. Things turned around after t more...
Capt. Bouncer Smith - Miami