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South Florida Report - Flamingo, Biscayne Bay & Miami
Capt. Jim Hobales
April 2, 2007
Flamingo - Saltwater Fishing Report
The fishing has been pretty good, the only variable is the wind. I normally can find some where out of the wind on the flats of Flamingo or Biscayne Bay, but I just fished the Miami Billfish Tournament for the last 3 days. The conditions were good for offshore and we had no problems with keeping a kite up in the steady 20-25 mph wind. I don't charter offshore but I do love catching Sailfish and any other fish that pulls line for that fact. I fished for team Perfect Finish, all my flats buddies. We all have offshore in our past but fish inshore. The one thing we have in common is we all make each other laugh even if one get's yelled at briefly, its usually followed with something comical. The reef was alive on Friday, the flying fish were everywhere with plenty of Kingfish, Dolphin and Sails behind them. We had some really small sails come up on our baits, but the baits were to big and they would let go. Friday the catch numbers were outstanding! The weigh in showed there were other fish caught as well; big Dolphin, Kings and lots of Cobia, it was topped off by a 198 lb Yellowfin Tuna. For our team 1 Sail a 25 lb King and a 23 lb Cobia not to bad for a bunch of flats guys.
Day 2, we ran south to pacific and really just missed the bite by a couple miles, we had more Cobia and Dolphin but no Sailfish today. We did pretty good at the reception party at the dock with the food and cold beers, that's what this team seemed to do best anyway!
Day 3 is short, lines out at 1 PM so we stayed close to the inlet. We had pretty cobalt blue water and a decent north current, but the bite was slow , I think it took 30 minutes or so before the first fish was called in.
We had plenty of Kingfish hit our kite baits, but again with the big baits and circle hooks we couldn't stay hooked up. One of our rods rigged for deeper water got hit, I finally got to pick up a rod. This was a big fish ( I know its already sounding like a fish story) it was pulling plenty of drag. We were rigged with wire because big Kingfish paid $5000.00, it was big enough to bite thru the wire after a few minutes. We had a few more Small kingfish hooked up and watch a really nice Cobia swim by and look at all our baits only to keep going south. Here's the way thing go on a day like this; 5 minutes after lines out and we got up on plane we had a white Marlin on the surface. We stopped but it moved on, it was lit up, really purple.
This month I'm hoping the winds lay down and we can finally get to some Tarpon fishing. I don't know if anyone else has kept a track of it, but since the beginning of February "it been windy". The Tarpon, Snook and Redfish should be excellent down at Flamingo. The Bonefish and Permit in Biscayne Bay should be on fire, water temperatures are right and its that time of year where we can find them all day long.
The Tarpon fishing around Government Cut has picked up a little from what I've heard from friends, the crabs will start running this month and that should get them going as well as bring in some Permit.
There are plenty of opportunities this month , if I can be of any help give me a call at 305 333 8149 and lets go catch'em.
Captain Jim Hobales
www.CaughtLookinCharters.com
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