Flamingo Fishing Reports

Tarpon are here - 050908 Steve is in from England with his trusty fly rod, I decided to fish Whitewater Bay because there had been some fish back there. The winds were blowing around 15 so we stayed tight up against the islands. Steve had some opportunities but int more...
Capt. Jim Hobales - Flamingo

Springing into Summer - We are now officially springing into summer. And it sure feels like it. The snook, redfish, tarpon have been very comfortable with the warm water temperatures. The other big plus is that the howling winds will begin to lie down and make sight fi more...
Capt. Ariel Cabrera - Flamingo

Flamingo in the Spring - I had an interesting day on the water with angler Rodger. We were fishing Florida Bay in a deep channel with flats on both sides and we were casting 1/4 ounce Hook Up lures tipped with four inch Gulp shrimp. Not much ation was taking place along the more...
Capt. Alan Sherman - Flamingo

Flamingo backcountry is redhot - The winds should start to dwindle soon it's been steady at 20 mph for months. When the winds come down the Tarpon will definitely get into the normal spring time pattern instead of being out in the Gulf. The Snook fishing in Florida Bay has been disa more...
Capt. Jim Hobales - Flamingo

Slow bite after full moon - 042508 Today I am involved in a 2 boat trip, early on I have Andrew, Cane and John and they caught plenty of Trout, Jacks and Ladyfish. Andrew and Cane had in important meeting to get to so they cut it short. In the afternoon Rick and Rob took the more...
Capt. Jim Hobales - Flamingo

Flamingo Fishing at it's Best! - It's been one trip after another for the last 10 days or so and finally I can sit down and catch up on my fishing reports. I had a lot of trips in Flamingo this past week and got to fish about every weather condition that you might see in the course more...
Capt. Alan Sherman - Flamingo

Tarpon are here! - 041908 Richard was my first regular customer when I started guiding in 2000 we probably fished 8 times that year. I haven't heard from until this past week, Richard always brought his grandsons and this time it was no different, he brought more...
Capt. Jim Hobales - Flamingo

Fishing report, Everglades backcountry, 5- 20 April - Now for a long overdue fishing report... It covers the period from 5 April to 19 April. The first half of this two week period could be summarized by saying tarpon, tarpon, tarpon.... This time of year the tarpon fishing is either red hot or non more...
Capt. Bob LeMay - Flamingo

Tarpon bite - 041408 Dan said his plane arrives at 1100 am and would like to be on the water for as much of the day as we could, I said no problem. I met Dan on South Beach and headed to Government Cut, I knew we could we could catch some fish in the area. The more...
Capt. Jim Hobales - Flamingo

Plenty of SLAMS - 040908 Kathy and Rick are here from San Diego, Rick turned 50 today and this was his gift, pretty nice. They love to fishing and every time they come in I try to show them a different part of our fishery, but Tarpon has to be on the list. We start more...
Capt. Jim Hobales - Flamingo