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South Florida Report - Flamingo, Biscayne Bay & Miami
Capt. Jim Hobales
September 21, 2007
Flamingo - Saltwater Fishing Report
091407
Today I am pre-fishing with my partners Paul and Alex for this weekends Romp in the Swamp Tournament out of Calusa marina in Goodland. We started out Quick today catching 10 Snook within the first 20 minutes and a real nice Redfish, this was while we were sitting 400 yards a way from a big school of Redfish we found last week. We could see the Reds chasing mullet schools and moving around on top of an oyster bar. We sat around for an hour watched them and went looking for big Snook. Paul and Alex like fishing further south so we ran down to a couple spots we we found more Redfish, these Reds were riding on the back of Nurse Sharks on the oyster edges. After finding plenty of Reds we went looking for Snook again, this time we found them in the rivers. The most important thing in that area right now is look for the finger mullet, it wont be long before something pops them. I had a monster Trout eat my Gulp Pogy while casting at a school of Reds in a depression at the mouth of the Huston river. We worked the river back with the tide and had 20 Snook or so with Paul landing a 30 lb. Tarpon, Alex had the hot hand catching most of those Snook.. we were confident we could really do well in the tournament. We have to get to the captains meeting so its time to go.
091507
Its always nice to have your boat in the water on tournament day, its just one less thing to do. The cool thing about this area is there a lots of lit up docks loaded with Tarpon, and anyone that knows me knows I am stopping! We watched them feed on tiny little minnows and made a few cast but we had no takers. On to the check out boat! It was just about safe light and we were on our way. The pathfinder was running smooth at 57 mph, just got new 4 blade prop. The boat felt sluggish and we noticed water in the boat as the rpm's dropped. I had just changed live well pumps so I guessed one had come off. We ran in beached the boat and found another problem had occurred and we would not be able to run the boat. Paul and I were checking it out and I told Alex get on the trolling motor and get fishing as the tide was starting to drop, the bite would' last long. The area we fished wasn't very far from the take off and we managed to fish all day catching a lot of great fish but not many Snook or Reds. We finally decided let's catch some of those finger mullet because there are eating the artificial's. It didn't take long the first bait I pitched got hit but I missed it, the thump felt like a Redfish. I got another bait as it hit the water I was on with a good tournament size Snook. We landed the Snook, it measured in at 31.5 inches. We all agreed we need a Redfish and we tried to find the pattern we had been on but the water was getting to high now. We must of caught 30 keeper Mangrove Snappers and a dozen Goliath Groupers while looking for a Redfish. Time was up we had to get back while we were still taking on water. We got back safe and finished 15th overall out of 80 boats. That's wasn't so bad!
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