Tarpon, are in Inlets, beaches, back country!
Capt. Jim Hobales
February 18, 2011
Flamingo - Saltwater Fishing Report
021111
I am in Government Cut filming Sportman's Adventures today with Rick Murphy. The day started with a nice Red Grouper, big Mangroves and a decent Mutton Snapper. We ended the morning with a Permit, Jacks, Mackerel and Rick hooked up on a mid size Tarpon on a new Rapala Gliding Rap. The Tarpon were stacked but just not interested as we dropped Live Shrimp and Trigger X Shrimp on their heads for 4 hours. That is the great part of fishing Government Cut ,you can always catch dinner! The show will be out this spring, awesome day for me!
021711
I am down at Flamingo with my golfing buddies Bruce and Bernie today. I have been telling them about some of my catches recently and they wanted in on it. The conditions weren't great when we got back into Whitewater Bay, it was overcast and the water temp was 66 degrees. The Tarpon don't respond back there until it hits 70 so I ran north looking for action. The sun never really came out and it took all afternoon to reach 70. We went back and hit the shorelines pretty hard with "Twitch n Rap" and Gulp Jerk baits and had some success. On Bernie's first cast he hooked up, it fought like a Redfish but we will never know! The bite was slow probably had to do with this weekends full moon. I have done really well on the full moon in February for the big Tarpon in the back country. I could of easily took these guys out at night off of Miami Beach instead where the Shrimp have been running this week and the tarpon are eating pretty good. Fishing is about taking risk and making the right decision and sometimes we get rewarded. We caught 3 Redfish and 10 Snook to 40 inches. We really had a field day on Bernie's casting but he takes it well! It was around 1:30 PM, the water temp was 70 degrees and we started looking for the big Tarpon. We found them but they were not actively feeding, yet! We kept catching Ladyfish while casting at them after a while we all agreed we were done and headed in.
Flamingo Fishing Forecast:
This weekends full moon shrimp run will produce a lot of Tarpon bites on the beaches and Government Cut.
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