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South Florida Report - Flamingo, Biscayne Bay & Miami
Capt. Jim Hobales
May 22, 2007
Flamingo - Saltwater Fishing Report
051907 Today could of been one of my best days ever at Flamingo, I'm fishing with Randy and Melissa Morton from Dallas. We started out fishing some flats that were loaded with Finger mullet, for the most part they just moved into the area in big numbers. The predators weren't far behind the mullet, they were lying in ambush in the potholes as the tide fell of the flats. Randy caught his first Snook, then Melissa caught a 24 inch Redfish. This was one of those days that every cast produced a fish. Randy had a nice hit and it flopped around a little different than anything we had been catching. The fish finally showed itself and it was a nice Tripletail around 5 lbs. the Trout were big and we caught plenty of them, but the interesting thing was we caught 6 Trout between 4 and 5 1/2 lbs. This is not a normal trout bite but the big ones were in the finger mullet schools like every thing else. The Tarpon would roll in the area once in a while and we would cast but no takers.
I looked at my clock and it said 1230 pm man time flew by! Randy already a slam Trout, Redfish and Snook. I said lets go find a Tarpon! I ran to an area that's a good summer time Spot for Snook and Tarpon. When we arrived the water was really clear and I almost left until we saw a big Snook smash a bait school. Randy eventually caught that Snook. I kept poling down the edge and the water turned a little bit dirtier. There was a stretch where the Snook, Redfish, Trout and Tarpon where stacked up. This is no B.S. between 2 pm and 430 pm a fish was hooked or caught on every cast. Melissa made 7 cast in a row where she caught fish, a 5-Snook a 24-inch Trout and a 27 inch Redfish which is a slam. To top it off she caught 4 more Snook after that, she missed one her next cast then had 5 more fish in 5 cast. That's phenomenal! Randy is Busy catching his Tarpon at this point and accomplishing his "Grand Slam". There weren't to many cast in the 2 1/2 hrs that we didn't get hit, I think we had 40 Snook a few Redfish and couple monster Trout. Here's the way we decided to leave, I suggested the first time all 3 of us cast and don't get hit we would leave. The amazing thing today was; they only cast Twitch and raps, 10 species on 1 lure. We finally had to leave otherwise we might still be there! This was a special day with great people.
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Sometimes having great day fishing leaves you with high expectations for the next trip, I was really hoping for half the day I had on Saturday. Today I’m with Tommy and his buddy was a no show so he had the boat to himself. I started out fishing a bank with some really nice potholes that were loaded with finger Mullet working up to the shoreline .We were casting the famous Twitch n rap that I’m so very big on. Tommy likes to change his lures a lot and he went to a top water plug, which got hammered by a big Snook some how it missed the hooks. I convinced him to go back to the Twitch and rap and the catching wasn’t far behind. A nice 30 lb Tarpon ate it, Tommy fought the fish around the boat and as I was getting ready to net it threw the plug. It didn’t take long and Tommy had another Tarpon on the end of his line peeling drag, jumping Tarpon do like to throw the plug. Tommy wasn’t done he had another Tarpon hook up with the fish finally next to the boat and again the plug came loose; for the third time. The wind had picked up pretty good and the tide dropped making the fish move farther of the bank where we could target the potholes a little better. Tommy finally had some luck; he caught 5 Snook a Redfish and a Trout. I said let’s go back and work the area again, he caught a small Snook and then had the hit of the day. We never saw the fish but between the hit and the run we knew it was very big and again the plug came loose. The wind really got bad and the bite slowed although we did see some really big Snook lying in the potholes as we poled over them. It was late and we called it a day.
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