Fishing Reports by Capt. Jim Hobales

June report - This is the time of year everything can come together early in the morning. The Tarpon,Snook and Redfishing can be as good as it ever gets at first light. This is the time of year where backcountry slams Tarpon,Snook,Redfish,Trout are very comm more...
Capt. Jim Hobales - Flamingo

Tarpon are here - 050908 Steve is in from England with his trusty fly rod, I decided to fish Whitewater Bay because there had been some fish back there. The winds were blowing around 15 so we stayed tight up against the islands. Steve had some opportunities but int more...
Capt. Jim Hobales - Flamingo

Flamingo backcountry is redhot - The winds should start to dwindle soon it's been steady at 20 mph for months. When the winds come down the Tarpon will definitely get into the normal spring time pattern instead of being out in the Gulf. The Snook fishing in Florida Bay has been disa more...
Capt. Jim Hobales - Flamingo

Slow bite after full moon - 042508 Today I am involved in a 2 boat trip, early on I have Andrew, Cane and John and they caught plenty of Trout, Jacks and Ladyfish. Andrew and Cane had in important meeting to get to so they cut it short. In the afternoon Rick and Rob took the more...
Capt. Jim Hobales - Flamingo

Tarpon are here! - 041908 Richard was my first regular customer when I started guiding in 2000 we probably fished 8 times that year. I haven't heard from until this past week, Richard always brought his grandsons and this time it was no different, he brought more...
Capt. Jim Hobales - Flamingo

Tarpon bite - 041408 Dan said his plane arrives at 1100 am and would like to be on the water for as much of the day as we could, I said no problem. I met Dan on South Beach and headed to Government Cut, I knew we could we could catch some fish in the area. The more...
Capt. Jim Hobales - Flamingo

Plenty of SLAMS - 040908 Kathy and Rick are here from San Diego, Rick turned 50 today and this was his gift, pretty nice. They love to fishing and every time they come in I try to show them a different part of our fishery, but Tarpon has to be on the list. We start more...
Capt. Jim Hobales - Flamingo

Beginning of April - The fishing has been good thru March, the one constant we have had is the wind which normally dies @ the 2 week of April. On the days the winds are down and and we can fish around the beaches and Government Cut there have been Tarpon, Permit, Snook more...
Capt. Jim Hobales - Flamingo

Plenty of Snook/Tarpon - 032208 Greg, Mike ad their 2 boys met me at the dock at Flamingo for a catch filled day. I kept the boys busy with Ladyfish, Trout and Jacks while keeping an eye on the storms the were developing just south of us. I had netted some pilchard and i more...
Capt. Jim Hobales - Flamingo

Still breezy but catching fish! - 031208 I am fishing with Ed and Brian in Whitewater Bay today and this was an interesting day. Ed is a pro bass angler and did some things just a little different than I normally do. He started out by throwing this big swim bait like they use out more...
Capt. Jim Hobales - Flamingo