Mullet run time!
Capt. Jim Hobales
September 3, 2009
Flamingo - Saltwater Fishing Report
082709
I am with my good friend Bruce Carlton today fishing Flamingo, we got onto to schools of small Tarpon early and Bruce put on a clinic as he usually does. He is an old bass guy who made the cross over years ago and he can fish! He hood several Tarpon before he landed on and then it was on 1-2-3 in a row and then he even let me catch one. this was 3 hours of none stop fishing rolling a in front of us and we finally said lets go get a Snook. I took him to a spot he never been to before and he caught a 33" 10.lb Snook and shortly after he caught his Redfish and a 3.lb Trout to complete his Grand Slam. We ran around the Gulf and hit the markers, we lucked in to a big Cobia. I grabbed a bait and pitched it out and every time the Cobia tried to eat him it would flip out of the water it was a blast to watch. Eventually the Cobia won out and ate the bait and stripped a bunch of line and then zipped back around the marker and cut us off. We caught plenty of Jacks, Ladyfish, Trout while fishing the beaches. we called it a day at 1 PM.
082809
I am with Richard Felder today he is my first real customer and have been fishing with him for 9 years now. His son Rich was in town with his sons ( Paul and Lucas) and we went out to hook up some fish. We started out on the Tarpon but there were several other boats in there making it difficult . I moved to a less crowded spot and we got several hook ups but the kids hadn't fished in a while and there timing was off. We moved again and got into a ton off Ladyfish which they enjoyed while the 100 .lb plus Tarpon rolled all around us. We got into Trout, Jacks, Ladyfish, and Snappers and they were having plenty of fun now. Richard asked if we could go catch something bigger, maybe a Shark so we went to a spot and live baited with Mullet. I put out a couple baits and we ended up hooking 2 Lemon Sharks which pulled really hard for his son Rich. We had back to back Tarpon that ended the day, Richard fought a 90 lb Tarpon for 45 minutes we got some photos and released it. It was hot and they had enough!
082909
I am fishing out of Everglades City today with a couple friends Capt. Gil Gutierrez and Mitch from Biscayne Rods. I am getting ready for a couple tournaments in the next month which are out of Goodland. We were out before the sun came up and tried to make our way down to Lostmans River early but there is just to many good looking spots and we hit a lot of them. The mullet run is in full effect on the west coast and it don't take much to fill your live wells up. The fish are eating the finger mullet and it don't take long. My first 2 baits caught a 28' Redfish and 26 " Snook. The conditions were really breezy out of the west and it had the baits pushed in to pockets. I eventually made my way down to Lostmans river and that's were the show started! There were acres of finger Mullet and they were getting destroyed by Snook, Jacks, Tarpon and Redfish. We caught about 10 or so Snook as we watched in amazement. We made our way back towards the ramp, I stopped at one last spot. Mitch caught 4 Snook, a Shark and Gil caught a 26' fat Redfish. it was about 430 and it was time to go.
Flamingo Fishing Forecast:
look for mullet schools, net mullet and then use them for everything!
Target Species:
Tarpon, snook, reds
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