Capt. Bouncer Smith
September 9, 2005
Miami - Saltwater Fishing Report
Good September Fishing
It has been a nice week after a rough weekend. We went looking for dolphin before setting up for swordfish on Tuesday night. We found numerous boards and lobster floats, but no mahi mahi. We scored big with a nice cobia under a board about 15 miles off. Our first bait out for swords was eaten by a beautiful 80 pound tiger shark, which we released.
We had 3 swordfish bites fought one a while and briefly fought another, but it was 3 outs for the night.
Mike Shapiro and his son had a good time with bonitos, kings and cudas on Wednesday morning. Wednesday afternoon and evening found Brooke and Joe catching snook to 25 pounds and a tarpon.
Thursday Brooke and Joe caught a bunch of cudas, bonito and hook a nice sailfish. For the first time in my 39 years of full time fishing, a huge mako shark came up and ate the sailfish about 50 feet from the boat. What a huge dorsal fin cut through the water when that beast rose to the surface. Later in the day, Joe caught and released his first whole sailfish.
Friday morning I got together with some class mates from my elementary school days at Norland. We had a lot of laughs and caught some bonito, a king and a super 50+ pound wahoo.
Friday afternoon the George Bubrick family caught 1 of 2 sailfish, a couple bonito, a couple barracuda and a couple nice snook.
We are sold out for September, so let’s start planning the months ahead. E-mail me at capt.bouncer@att.net
A 33 foot center console charter skiff operated by Bouncer. Bouncer has over 40 years full time experince guide fishing off south Florida. He is a master at the pursuit of sailfish, tarpon, swordfish and many other popular gamefish. The boat sails from Miami Beach Marina, which is located on South Beach at the mouth of Government Cut. We are only a couple minutes from the fishing grounds.
Bouncer enjoys fishing with beginners and is popular among the most knowledgable expert anglers.
