Fishing Reports by Capt. Jim Hobales

South Florida Report - Flamingo, Biscayne Bay & Miami - Miami Beach The seasons are starting to change the waters is cooler and we are in the middle of our second week of northeasterly breeze. We are not really getting our N.E. pattern from cold fronts but from lows coming in from the Atlantic ocean, ei more...
Capt. Jim Hobales - Flamingo

South Florida Report - Flamingo, Biscayne Bay & Miami - 092807 Today, I am fishing with Peter, Paul and John down at Flamingo, its part of a 2 boat deal and there is a lot of smack talk between the two groups. The pressure is really on to catch some fish! The morning started out with a couple of missed more...
Capt. Jim Hobales - Flamingo

South Florida Report - Flamingo, Biscayne Bay & Miami - 091407 Today I am pre-fishing with my partners Paul and Alex for this weekends Romp in the Swamp Tournament out of Calusa marina in Goodland. We started out Quick today catching 10 Snook within the first 20 minutes and a real nice Redfish, this wa more...
Capt. Jim Hobales - Flamingo

South Florida Report - Flamingo, Biscayne Bay & Miami - 090607 I am fishing with my buddy Paul today in the Chockoloskee area, we are fishing the Romp in the Swamp tournament together next week. The Tarpon were thick but would not really eat my Twitch n Rap the way I was working it. I slowed it down and more...
Capt. Jim Hobales - Flamingo

South Florida Report - Flamingo, Biscayne Bay & Miami - 090107 The Snook fishing continues to be incredible! My clients are throwing the Twitch n Raps most who have read my reports or have fished with me before know that they will produce, some even bringing there own lures. The falling tide on this pas more...
Capt. Jim Hobales - Flamingo

South Florida Report - Flamingo, Biscayne Bay & Miami - 082408 Today I fished Whitewater Bay with Capt. Bruce Carlton, I like to fish with him to scout out areas plus we are good friends. We started out in Buttonwood Canal catching small Snook and jumped a bunch of Tarpon. We hit 3 other areas in Coot B more...
Capt. Jim Hobales - Flamingo

South Florida Report - Flamingo, Biscayne Bay & Miami - Great action 081707 Greg and Phil are from far away, originally from South africa now living in Alberta Canada, have been on a fishing vacation. They just returned from Eluethra in the Bahamas and want Tarpon and Snook to finish up their trip. more...
Capt. Jim Hobales - Flamingo

South Florida Report - Flamingo, Biscayne Bay & Miami - really hot fishing August 2007 The fishing remains good in the areas I cover, Miami Beach, Biscayne Bay, (north and south) and Flamingo have all been productive for numerous species. I usually concentrate on the main species of Tarpon, Snook, Bo more...
Capt. Jim Hobales - Flamingo

South Florida Report - Flamingo, Biscayne Bay & Miami - August 2007 The fishing remains good in the areas I cover, Miami Beach, Biscayne Bay, (north and south) and Flamingo have all been productive for numerous species. I usually concentrate on the main species of Tarpon, Snook, Bonefish or Permit but s more...
Capt. Jim Hobales - Flamingo

South Florida Report - Flamingo, Biscayne Bay & Miami - 072207 Today, I fished with Dan, Roger and Pat at Flamingo. We started out on some Tarpon but they would not bite this morning. There were some serious squalls coming across Cape Sable today, which changed where I was headed for Tarpon. Dan was inte more...
Capt. Jim Hobales - Flamingo