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South Florida Report - Flamingo, Biscayne Bay & Miami
Capt. Jim Hobales
February 26, 2007
Flamingo - Saltwater Fishing Report
021607
This morning I am fishing at Flamingo with Stan and Mike from Houston and again the weather is miserable!
The conditions are rainy, windy and cold we have had to much of that lately. We have a second boat with there buddies as well. Both anglers fish the Texas coast for regularly for Reds and Trout so we were looking for Snook and Tarpon. The first thing I needed to do was find a protected area and get out of the wind, once there we did have some really nice Tarpon rolling in the area. It wasn't long after we got there Mike was hooked up with a fish screaming drag, the fish pulled drag and then let go. The Tarpon teased us with out ever hitting a lure but continued to roll letting us think they might play. We moved around from one protected spot to another with little results a few Trout, Jack and plenty of Ladyfish. The conditions were right for finding Redfish on the incoming tide, they were there as expected. The fish were actively feeding and mudding; Mike had another big fish hit and peel off drag but after a few minutes the same results, it came off. We ended up with a nice Redfish and a decent size Jack but the others weren't interested. These were very tough conditions, most guys would have left early but they stuck it out. and had a ok day.
021707
This morning I am fishing with Rich, he is an engineer from Yamaha Marine, I along with Capt. Allen Sherman have Yamaha reps on our boats. A cold front came thru over night, it cold; the air is 40 degree's and winds NW at 25-30 mph. Rich is here for the Miami boat show and we were going to try for Tarpon. The water temps on the beach were around 72 degrees which are really tolerable for Tarpon but I think the pressure may have had moved them, either into the inlet or deeper. We gave it a try for 2 hours without seeing a Tarpon, normally I would move into Government Cut but due to boat show traffic doing test runs it was really busy. We ran south to Key Biscayne Looking for Barracudas, Pompano and whatever would bite in these conditions. Rich caught an assortment of Jacks, Cuda's, Mackerel, and Trout not bad on the conditions we had.
Feb 19-23-07
This week I am pre-fishing for the FLW Redfish series up in Clearwater. I just cant get away from the cold and wind, it's ice cold and really windy still. The weeks weather did get better and we did catch some Redfish. Day 1 we were on them really good but they would not eat, the tide switched and we caught 2 for 6.13 lbs. we had five other fish but this was our weight. Day 1, we were in good shape 65 teams didn't catch fish so our 6.13 has us in 36 place.
Day 2- We decided to got to the same spot, but today they had lock jaw. We stayed there until 11:00 and waited for the tide to come in but it didn't help. We decided to leave and check out a couple docks we found in practice, the one dock had 6 fish and they were perfect. They were not there on day 1 but were there on day 2. I really thought we were going to get lucky, but the wouldn't eat either. We ran to an common area a lot of teams were fishing just trying to get a couple small Redfish for points. The goal is to make the championship as well as win the tournament so catching a fish today would really help us. We found a giant area full of mullet this is were the Redfish travel, we saw a handful and my partner Timmy caught a small one. The fish was a hair short! I kept poling after the mullet school and he kept casting. I saw something move in the school and I cast, I caught a 18 inch fish. I placed him in the live-well and we got back to work we had an hour left. We ran over to a dock where we caught 5 Reds the day before, with 2 being very close to 18 inches, we also spooked out a bunch of better ones. There were 4 or 5 other boats in the area, the docks had been hit hard already. We caught 3 small ones and headed in to the weigh-in. The conditions were tough and we were content with our small fish, we finished 53 rd out of a 125 teams. Last year we got back late on day one and were disqualified and the second day we got skunked. Our results this year will keep us on track for making the championship.This year we are being sponsored by Pelagic, look for the
wrapped boats they are really sharp.
I am back to fishing here this week, I am waiting for the big Tarpon to show up in the back country of Flamingo any day now. The Tarpon on Miami Beach have finally got on track, the evening bite has been consistent.
If your interested in catching Tarpon our just want to enjoy a day on the water catching anything that swims give me a call 305 333 8149.
Capt. Jimbo
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