Fishing is good
Capt. Jim Hobales
June 13, 2008
Flamingo - Saltwater Fishing Report
060608
Keith and John are good anglers from Georgia, we fished south Biscayne Bay and were looking to catch a little bit of everything. We started Inside the bay because it was breezy after a couple a small Sharks I decided to run out on the ocean side to look for Tarpon. It didn't take long, School after school of Tarpon swam up at us but each one turned there heads with no interest in eating. We ended up back on the inside on Cutter Bank where we had a lot of Sting Rays. One big Ray was coming at us and it had 2 fish on both wing tips, at first it was hard to make them out. John made a perfect cast over the Sting Ray and brought the Crab back over its wings and we were on. The big Bonefish made an incredible run over 100 yards and was being chased by a 8 ft Lemon Shark, I cranked up the motor and chased him off. A short time later he was back but we managed to chase him of again and finally landed the 11 1/2 lb Bonefish. The Shark was still circling the boat so I handed Keith a rod rigged with a Ladyfish, he pitched it out and caught the big Lemon. We caught a hand full more of the Lemons and Black tips and then called it a day.
061108
I am with Bob and his son Brandon today at Flamingo, we started out looking for Tarpon but they did not want to play. I handed them a couple Twitch n Raps and they went to work catching Snook after Snook for an hour as the tide pushed thru the point we were fishing. The next spot only produced a Trout but we watched a couple of Sawfish on the flat and saw a few fish blow out. Bob really wanted a Tarpon so we moved on, as we approached the next spot I heard some bait being crashed by Porpoise. They put on a great show but we were on a school of Redfish. I told Brandon to cast his Gulp Shrimp and he was hooked up with a nice Red, Bob also hooked up on a Twitch n Rap. Brandon now has his Slam consisting of Snook, Redfish, and Trout. We did this for and finally got on the baby Tarpon, they just would not co-operate. We decided to go Shark fishing as the weather was really starting to get bad, and we had a funnel cloud sitting out from us. Brandon rod was doubled over and s Shark was pulling drag, Brandon fought it for a while and the bait just pulled free. We decided it was time to go. There was some commotion at the boat ramp when we got there, a bunch of Cubans had been smuggled into Flamingo.
061208
Bob and Brandon wanted to try south Biscayne Bay today, we had some wind and a lot of cloud cover which made the sight fishing a little tough but they just wanted to bend rods. We started out with a couple Ladyfish for bait then ran across the bay and found some Snook, Jacks and Cudas around Sands cut. We also had some big Bull Sharks on the flats which really excited them. We ran down to Caesars creek where we watched the Snook pop baits but would not eat ours lures, it was still pretty cool. Bob did have one big fish smash his Twitch n rap but didn't stay hooked up. We chased a school of 5 lb Bar Jack that were busting baits but they were moving so fast it was hard to keep up. We ran out on the Bank and looked for Tarpon, we did see one and had some shots at big Bonefish but the day was tough with no visibility at all. We ended the day watching 2 ten foot Nurse Sharks mating.
Flamingo Fishing Forecast:
Fish are where they are supposed to be, this week will be interestin
Target Species:
Tarpon, Snook ,Bonefish
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