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Fishing Report for Miami, Florida
Capt. Bouncer Smith
June 30, 2002
Miami - Saltwater Fishing Report
It’s summer! That means dolphin one day, but not the next. The dolphin
fishing is fair at best, but this can change in hours.
The inlet fishing was good all week. We had tarpon to over 100 pounds
nearly every day. They were eating crabs south of the inlet and pilchards
or herring along the jetties. When fishing this live bait we also had action
from 8 to 15 pound jacks, barracuda and some snook. You will want to
use circle hooks for this fishing as snook season is closed for the summer
and the rest of your catch aren’t very popular food fish.
We had a good trip to the Bahamas this week. We ran over on Friday
and my guest did a little sight seeing before we checked into our hotel
and went fishing. We ran south to some wrecks up on the bank where the
fish were varied and hungry. We had sharks to 80 pounds. They were
blacktip, reef and nurse. We had barracuda to 30 pounds, king mackerel
to 35 pounds, cero mackerel to 7 lb., gray snapper to 5lb, yellowtail, blue
runners to 6lb, bunches of black and nassau groupers, houndfish, remora
and cobia. That was 14 kinds of fish in about 5 hours. I knew we were in
the Bahamas when my anglers said they could no longer hold a fishing
rod, even without a fish. We returned to the hotel with the setting sun
and had some of our fish fried and sautéed along with some cracked
conch for a super supper. Saturday it was the hunt for big grouper and
snapper. We caught a 10 pound red grouper in the first ten minutes and
then all that struck were strawberry groupers and triggers. We changed
targets to yellowtails to take back home for a fish fry. We ran 15 miles
south, and anchored in 80 feet of water over some coral heads. With
frozen chum in the chum bag and oats chum ladled over the side we had
solid yellowtails behind the boat in a few minutes. We caught a dozen
before the predators moved in. 4 sharks latter we decided we had plenty
of fish for some great dinners and headed back to Miami Beach.
On Bouncer’s Dusky 33 that was a comfortable 2 hour run. Be sure
you get a bean bag chair for napping during those long runs.
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