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Flamingo Fishing at it's Best!
Capt. Alan Sherman
April 26, 2008
Flamingo - Saltwater Fishing Report
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 of a month.
I fished Ken and Bob on a cold windy morning in Florida Bay and started the morning with a 12 pound just under 33 inch snook that ate a live shrimp under a Cajun Thunder in under two feet of water and on eight pound mono. What a fight! The fish thrashed its head made long runs and tried to jump but just couldn't. Once the fish was put into the release well we looked for another slot size snook. The water was cold and we saw quite a few schools of snook and in all sizes but they just wouldn't eat. The winds were blowing at 20 or more from the north to northeast the rest of the day was spent throwing Hook Up lures tipped with Gulp shrimp. The guys caught over 100 trout, ladyfish, jacks, bluefish, snapper and catfish before the day was done. Back to Flamingo the next day again. Almost identical weather conditions and I am fishing Bruce and his buddy Bill. The snook were there again but not feeding and we spent the day catching over 60 trout, jacks, ladyfish, bluefish and catfish and again on artificials. Today I am fishing Jeff and Scott and they are hoping to catch some large snook on artificial lures. Scott mostly threw the Rapala Twitchin Rap and Scott concentrated on throwing the Hook Up lures with a Gulp shrimp. The water was dirty and a little chilly but the wind had died at least for the moment. We tried a few points but no luck and ended up in a small creek where the guys had some luck on small snook but no big ones. We worked our way back outside on the incoming tide and worked some markers where two cobias gave us a shot but no bites. The next marker produced some nice bluefish action and then we followed a row of crab buoys where we soon were into some real nice tripletail loosing a good 10 pounder but did land a nice pompano that was hanging out behind a trap buoy plus 4 tripletail in the 5 pound range. We ended the day catching some trout, ladyfish and jacks. The next day I'm fishing Alan and his son Bradley in North Biscayne Bay for a ½ day trip. The weather was beautiful but bait was no where to be found. We threw Hook Up lures and Gulp shrimp and the guys ended up with a look down, barracuda and a dozen sea trout. Back in the bay the next day and found some pilchards and threadfin herring. I have Jerry, his son in law Chuck and Chuck's son Thomas on the boat. The weather is incredible so we decide to take the bait offshore. After a call to one of the local charter boat captains to find out what's been hitting offshore we decide to start near the inlet in 100 feet of water. We barely get the baits out and before we know it we have a 12 and 2 eight pound kings plus a bonito in the box. The action was quick with a lot of cut offs and missed strikes and then the fish shut off. We went looking for dolphin but no luck and finished the day with a few more kings before we called it a day. Back to Flamingo with hopes of fishing out on the Gulf but the wind is back and the bay is dirty. I have Jerome on the boat and we head into a small creek to get away from the wind but only find a bunch of real small snook so it's into Whitewater Bay where we work the back sides of some of the islands and find plenty of fish. Casting Hook Up lures tipped with a Gulp shrimp Jerome is into a snook, goliath grouper, redfish, snapper, trout, jack or ladyfish on almost every cast until its time to go home.
Well that's about it for now. More trips to come and more articles to write.
Flamingo Fishing Forecast:
Fishing in Flamingo will only get better as water temperatures start to rise. Sea trout are spawning, redfish are starting to school up and snook will be heading for their spawning holes where they will accumulate in huge numbers. tarpon will be heading to the channels and river mouths and the sharks are already here and in good numbers.
Target Species:
Snook, Tarpon Redfish, Sea Trout, Sharks, Cobia, Tripletail
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