Biscayne Bay Fishing Report
Capt. Raul Montoro
April 9, 2008
Biscayne Bay - Saltwater Fishing Report
Biscayne Bay bone-fishing has been really consistent this past week. There have been plenty of bonefish tailing early in the morning giving us plenty of opportunities to catch them on fly. For the non fly anglers we've been casting a live shrimp hooked weed less with a small split shot. I've been finding the fish to be very aggressive this time of year, and eating a well placed fly or shrimp without being so spooky. This has to do with the water temperatures warming up and this makes them happy and feeding really well. I've been catching bonefish on almost every bonefish trip this past week, and it's looking like it's just going to keep getting better.
Tarpon are starting to move through the ocean side of Biscayne Bay in decent numbers, but the windy conditions that we've been having, it has made it difficult to fish ocean side. I had a day off yesterday 4-8-08 and fished with a good friend of mine Capt. Randy Stalling from Key Largo and we went on the hunt for SILVER, tarpon that is. We headed towards Islamorada and were only outfitted with fly tackle and a box full of tarpon flies. The radar in the morning was calling for showers all day, but we went for it anyways. The seas were glassed out and after hitting a couple of productive spots we finally found some tarpon rolling and floating on the surface. These fish were spread out and difficult to find a pattern as to what they were doing. I was on the bow and I finally get a tarpon to roll in front of the boat and stay floating high on the water. I casted the fly right on him and he came from below and sucked the fly' in and then it was game on. I had him for a few minutes before he spit the fly right back at me. After about an hour they shut off, so we kept searching with not much success. It was a weird day with not allot of activity in the water and they sky. I like to see baitfish jumping and birds diving, but that wasn't the case yesterday.
Permit fishing is still a little slow with the fish still spawning offshore. We did manage to have some shots at permit on the ocean side flats on Monday, but not as many as I would have like. I will give another couple of weeks, before that start to show up in good numbers.
I am booking trips and filling up tarpon season fast, so if you want your shot at silver give me a call. If bonefish is your game, come on down and lets Rip Some Lips!
Tight loops,
Capt. Raul Montoro
www.biscaynebayfishing.com
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