Big N.E. winds means Mullet run!
Capt. Jim Hobales
October 10, 2011
Flamingo - Saltwater Fishing Report
Miami Beach and Biscayne Bay
The fishing is going to turn on this week, cooling temp's and the N.E. blow last week will start driving the baits down the coast. This is what I wait for all summer, its just allot of fun to watch the Tarpon and Snook blow up these mullet schools. There are other species like big Jacks, Pompano, Sharks and Barracudas.
I just got back from the Backwater Series Championships out of Goodland this past weekend. We pre-fished on Friday just checking out all our spots. The conditions weren't the best, winds were around 25 and forecast to increase on Saturday plus an 80 % chance of heavy showers. We usually make the long run to Flamingo but it was going to be out of the question on Saturday. We agreed to stay closer and have more fishing time!
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On Friday morning it was @ 65 degrees when we launched the boat, much better than the muggy 85 of August mornings. It didn't take long and we were on a non stop Snook bite just off of Caxambass Pass, nothing giant but good numbers. We ran down south and hit all our Redfish holes and felt we could probably turn in a good weight with having to run 100 miles round trip in 2 to 3 foot chop.
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Its Sat. morning and today is the Backwater Championship day, I'm with partners Mitch and Paul. We had a good year and we really wanted to cap it off with good weight today. We were checked out at 6:45 AM and at our first spot at 7 AM it was still dark. We had a few fish popping up on the banks with an incoming tide, I got hit hard but the fish missed it. We cast an assortment of lures and bait at these fish but they were chasing tiny minnow s and short striking our lures, so we moved.
On the next spot Mitch put our first fish in the boat and I missed a good one which I heard about all day, by the end of the day that Redfish was 10 lbs. We have a good time and don't take it as serious as years past, but were still very competitive. If one of us makes a mistake the other 2 will give it to him!
We worked hard and caught allot of fish but they were all the same size right around 3 lbs., we hit every spot we had and caught fish. If this is a everyday charter im in good shape, but it's not. The winds blowing every bit of 25 mph and its 1230 PM. Paul has an idea and it pays of with more fish and we upgraded but not by much. We left the fish biting to get back to Caloosa Marina. We only had a total weight of 7.15 lb but which got us into the top 10 I think. We kept telling ourselves but we caught fish all day to justify the weight.
Congratulations to Ron and Chris Hueston for an outstanding performance this season winning just about everything in this series.
The Mullet run is actually going on right now on both coast and Flamingo, I can take you there.
If you would like to fish the Mullet run and experience the fun give me a call at 305 333 8149.
Capt jimbo
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