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South Florida Report - Flamingo, Biscayne Bay & Miami
Capt. Jim Hobales
April 28, 2007
Flamingo - Saltwater Fishing Report
041807 Today’s trip was a corporate trip out of South Beach, which started out for Tarpon.
The Tarpon where there but the wind and current made it very tough on my anglers who had minimal experience.
We tried for 2 hours dropping live Shrimp and Gulp 4 inch Shrimp, we ended up with a really nice Red Grouper.
I asked the guys if they would like to catch Trout, Jacks and Cuda’s in the Bay, I thought that would be much easier for them.
In the next hour we caught 30- 40 Trout up to 24 inches and a few small Cuda’s. They had to be back by 11:00a.m., so it was a short morning .
041907
Tim Robinson and his brothers Keith and Jamie wanted to catch fish,” that’s all”! Tim fishes regularly on his own boat but wanted to show his brothers a good time at Flamingo. The wind was blowing in the 20 mph range this morning, and out of the west at that, this isn’t the most productive situation I could ask for. I netted some Mullet small medium and a couple large ones, this had me thinking “big fish”. We fished around and the fish were not eating. I hit every spot and finally ended up in a little creek in Lake Ingram, we put out a 5 inch mullet and it didn’t take long it got hit! Keith missed it so we put out anther one. The next mullet got hit to and we got a scaled mullet back. It was tough enough today but this is killing me! We ended up 0-4 on that spot, we ended up with some Cuda’s and big Mangrove Snapper but this was a very difficult day.
042007
Jeff and Betty from N.Y. they have fished down here before but have never caught a Tarpon or Snook after yesterday I wasn’t sure but the winds are back to the east today which will help the bite. I gave Jeff a twitch n Rap to cast at the Tarpon, it didn’t take long and Jeff had a nice 20lb Tarpon running and jumping all around the boat, Jeff actually site casted to it which makes it even more challenging. Jeff brought the fish boat side but one of the hooks had snagged his eye.
I didn’t was to take him out of the water so I removed the hook and set him free. Jeff’s first Tarpon he was ecstatic! Jeff went back to work and hooked a second one which fought a little and then threw the hook. I asked Jeff if he minded if we left because I had a tournament the following day and I didn’t was to abuse the Tarpon. We moved on and continued to catch fish, we ended up the day with Jeff catching 3 Snook, Betty caught a 32 incher that was a great fight on a Gulp jerk bait. Between them they caught over 50 Trout up to 25 inches, and everything else that swims. I was hoping I could have this same day again tomorrow during the tournament.
042107-Day 1 Herman Lucerne Memorial I am fishing with customer/friend Sergio and his brother Ariel; this is Sergio’s second year fishing the Herman Lucerne Tournament with me. I was confident after yesterday, lines in today right around 6:30 am, Sergio caught our first Snook at 6:45am a good start at 27-1/2 inches. I had them throwing Twitch n Raps and they were catching fish. By 8:30 we had 3 nice Snook up to 28 inches and 2 Redfish caught both just under 18 inches. We had 2 other Reds come off at the boat and that would be the kiss of death for us, we just couldn’t manage to catch another one. The wind was really blowing hard today and the grass was thick on the surface, it makes it tough to pole and site fish but we did it. Day one tally was A 28’ Snook and a 19-inch Trout not what I wanted, but the guys were happy they had caught more Snook today than they ever imagine they would.
Day 2 started out just like day one, the Tarpon didn’t eat and the Snook did. The water was extremely low and the Tarpon really didn’t get back into the area they like. We blind cast the area, but again the Snook ate our lures. I ran around to every spot I knew trying to get all the species we ended up with some decent Snappers and some more Snook. The brothers aren’t really tournament anglers just guys who like to fish, they weren’t bothered not winning, but were happy about catching the numbers of Snappers and Snook that they had today. Ariel had never caught a Redfish before and he caught 3 on Saturday plus another 28-inch Snook.
This week I will be fishing the FLW Redfish Series in Port Charlotte, I’ll keep you posted!
Catch’em up
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