Flamingo Fishing Reports

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

Flamingo Fishing at it's Best! - It's been one trip after another for the last 10 days or so and finally I can sit down and catch up on my fishing reports. I had a lot of trips in Flamingo this past week and got to fish about every weather condition that you might see in the course more...
Capt. Alan Sherman - 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

Fishing report, Everglades backcountry, 5- 20 April - Now for a long overdue fishing report... It covers the period from 5 April to 19 April. The first half of this two week period could be summarized by saying tarpon, tarpon, tarpon.... This time of year the tarpon fishing is either red hot or non more...
Capt. Bob LeMay - 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

Fishing report, Everglades backcountry - This past week's fishing started off with red-hot giant tarpon action that got broken off by a late season cold front, leaving us scratching for fish when the winds died down enough to get back on the water.... Just before the front I fished the Lop more...
Capt. Bob LeMay - 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

Father & Son catch their first Backcountry Slams. - Fished with father and son yesterday in Flamingo. The anglers were Steve and his 10 year old son Zach. Zach had never fished in Flamingo before but has fished in North Biscayne Bay many times in the past with me. Weather was beautiful. No rain and li more...
Capt. Alan Sherman - Flamingo