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Everglades National Park & Biscayne Bay
Capt. Jim Hale
December 5, 2005
Flamingo - Saltwater Fishing Report
Capt. Jim Hale with Cane Polin’ October 5th through December 4th fishing Report
Well, it’s been a while since my last report, no thanks to Hurricane Katrina and Wilma. Everglades National Park is still closed as of today. You can still fish the waters during day light hours but the runs are long to get there from Key Largo and not as long from Islamorada. The fishing is still good on the flats around the Flamingo area with good size Reds, some big snook and trout. We have been finding these fish on the last part of the outgoing tide, 3 reds were caught in the 10 lb class last week. The creeks and river mouths are holding a lot of bait and also a lot of different varieties of fish, with some good catches, Tom Harder from Deerborn Michigan fished with me last week and had a little slam action with a real nice snook of 33 inches, a couple of other smaller snook and 16 reds, most where in the slot size. Messes of trout were caught and in the end he jumped a small tarpon. His brother Rick caught a lot of reds with a couple of big ones mixed in; the bait of choice has been live pilchards. Black drum are here as well, most fish averaging 5 lbs in the creeks, we haven’t been able to find any big ones yet, but the live shrimp was working well. Those of you fishing the area be careful running through some of the shallower channels and creeks as there are a lot of trees and stumps in the water some buried underwater where you can’t see!
Biscayne Bay bone fishing is very good right now. The average fish is 7 to 9 lbs. There are schools of bigger fish taken on live shrimp, which are running now, and the shrimp size is pretty good. A lot of these bones are taken on fly, in the last 2 weeks the fish have been schooling more and tailing less. Any small pink jigs with a tiny rubber tail will work when these fish are schooled up as well.
Outside of Biscayne Bay we’ve catching mutton snapper averaging 5 to 6 lbs, some up to 10 lbs off the patches out in deeper water. Smaller grouper, some legal some not, are plentiful with a mixed bag of mackerel, mangrove snapper and small cobia showing up from time to time, I am looking forward to getting some bigger cobia here soon.
I still have some availability open, so if you are interested in some flats or backcountry fishing just email or give me a call.
Tight lines and gin clear waters!
Capt. Jim Hale
Cane Polin’ Charters
800-950-FINS, Ext. 1
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