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South Florida Report - Flamingo, Biscayne Bay & Miami
Capt. Jim Hobales
January 28, 2008
Flamingo - Saltwater Fishing Report
011908
I have belonged to the Miami Sport fishing Club for over 20 years and the one thing that has always been constant is we show up strong when competing as a club. Today we competed the Miami Beach Rod and Reel club Sailfish challenge which we were defending as champions. I am fishing with my Buddies Capt. Gil Gutierrez on his new 32 Sea Vee and Wayne Burns. We have 2 other boats in the tournament since only top 3 boats from each club count so we piled onto 3 boats. It didn't take long we caught a quick sail and released then another we had 2 by 9 am and then the bite stopped, luckily some Dolphin moved in and kept us busy for a while. We ended up with one more Sailfish and 2 missed big bites, one possibly a Tuna. Lines were out at 3 PM so we made it back to a great party and beerfest. The club ended up with 12 Sailfish out of a total of 26 caught in conditions not consider great for Sail fishing. The Miami Sport fishing Club took first, Capt Gabby's Sea Vee took top boat honors and Peter Brandle was top angler with 6 releases. I guess we will be defending again next year.
012508
The weather this past week has been terrible but there finally was a break on Wednesday and the tarpon responded. Today I am fishing with Duane and Waldo and Tarpon is what they want! We headed out at first light hoping the Tarpon would respond after feeding on the full moon over night, there was enough cloud cover that sometimes allows us to get that early morning bite. The other thing we were dealing with was a cold front passed thru as well and the winds were straight down the coast. We went out and drifted the south side of Government Cut with no results I told Duane the there side might be better but he thought the strong winds and rough water was to much for Waldo to handle. We stayed in the inlet and fought the 20 plus wind and strong currents. We didn't get any Tarpon but we did manages some nice Mangrove Snappers. We only had a few hours as they had to hop on a plane to get home.
012708
Today, I am fishing with Joe, his wife Orla and son little Joe, Joe said he son is a 10 year old "die hard" and he wanted him to catch fish. This was their first Flamingo expereince and I wanted to make it a good one, mother nature had something different in store. This morning we had a cold front passing thru and the winds are up and out of the west, some say it's the toughest winds to fish; but we are here and we have to make the best of it. On our first stop little Joe caught a nice Redfish in an area I have a lot of faith in but fishing was slow. The next spot produced a Snook for little Joe, it's slow but he pecking away at a "Slam". Orla caught a small Ladyfish and then hooked another small Snook which jumped off. It was little Joe's turn again and his drag is getting pulled of pretty good eventually he landed a Goliath Grouper. The rain was moving in so we made a run away from it and back towards Flamingo and did some Trout fishing. The Ladyfish were mixed in and there were some big ones mixed in which all 3 anglers were loving, big Joe asked why we didn't come here right away. They caught some Trout,Jacks and Catfish as well and watched in amazement as the Porpoises rounded up bait on the flats. Big Joe needed to leave by 1 PM and so we headed in but little Joe would of stayed forever.
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