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South Florida Report - Flamingo, Biscayne Bay & Miami
Capt. Jim Hobales
February 10, 2007
Flamingo - Saltwater Fishing Report
020607
This morning I woke up to cold, wind and rain; not a great combination for comfort. I arrived at Flamingo with fellow captain Raul Montoro for a 2 boat trip, the parking lots were empty. The only cars and boats were ours, I told Raul we have the place all to ourselves. We both had fished similar weather on Sunday and had good results. The guys arrived and we got going, I had Jeff and Gary. They come from Boston and are Striper anglers. I stopped in a spot protected from the wind, the Redfish were on the edge of the mud/grass flat edge. The Redfish were obvious but not willing to bite luckily the trout responded well.The strong N.E. wind blew the water off the flats before the actual tide time listing so it was dry longer than normal causing a longer than normal period of slack tide with no current. We need current to catch most fish at Flamingo, Jeff ended up with a really big trout which ate a Gulp Shrimp in a pot hole. Gary managed a few keeper Trout as well. All in all it was a very tough day on the water but we managed to have fun and produce some fish in the worst possible conditions.
020807
I'm with Eddy and Felix for the next 2 days, today we fished Flamingo. Both are serious anglers Eddy being a guide in Connecticut, we started out with a very low incoming tide; so I went in search of Redfish. We got up on Snake Bight and immediately started seeing some movement most of it Sharks. I continued poling my HPX in the very shallow water, the key here is once a fish spooks stop and make some long cast. The fish were blowing out of the potholes like torpedo's this normally means Snook, but could be large Trout as well. We finally got a look and they were definitely Snook, but not interested at all. I kept poling and finally we pushed up a very large heard of Redfish. A few hundred fish Eddy and Felix both hooked up and we caught 2 nice Reds of 28 and 26 inches. The school split up into a bunch of smaller schools and really started moving we followed them around and repeated the process a few more times. We stayed shallow all day finding big fish in most of the areas we fished. I spotted a big Snook lying in a pothole, Felix cast his Gulp Shrimp at him; the Snook swam away but Felix was hooked up! The fish was Shaking his head and made a decent run it looked like it could be a Snook, It was a 24 inch Trout, this is a big fish coming out of 10 inches of water. Eddy had the same experience catching a 22 inch Trout and a couple more Reds. We needed to catch a Snook for the Back country Slam, so we moved to a spot which I know had current running thru it.
I staked the boat out and Eddy and Felix cast Gulps at a point, they caught a couple more Redfish and then Felix hooked up. I couldn't see but I heard the splash and I that's a Snook. Felix landed his Snook and had his slam. The tide was about done and so we the guys we'll be back for more tomorrow.
020907
The weather was perfect no wind and clear skies and a little bit on the cool side, we decided we were going to Biscayne Bay for Bonefish. The tide was extremely low and that's what I like, but I was unsure because of the cooler water temperature. I arrived at the flat and it was exposed the way I like it, I explained how the Bonefish would be moving and let's just sit here a minute to see if the bump up. They bumped up alright, right next to the boat, a large Bonefish tailed with in 30 feet. This was unfair the guys were not expecting that and scrambled to make the cast, the Bonefish slowly swam away. I poled after them, but as bonefish do they disappeared into deeper water. We continued on the path they travel, the schools kept coming one after another. Eddy made a great cast at the schools lead fish, the Bonefish swam around it for a while and moved on. This scenario was played out a dozen times with no hook ups. Eddy did catch a really nice Bar Jack which screamed of a bunch of line. It was a short day, Felix wanted Eddy to experience the thrill of Bonefishing. Eddy was thrilled at the amount of fish we saw and understood sometimes the react like that.
The Miami Boat Show is here next weekend I don't have any day trips available, but there are a few evenings available for Tarpon. Give me a call at 305 333 8149 if I can be any help.
Capt. Jimbo
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