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South Florida Report - Flamingo, Biscayne Bay & Miami
Capt. Jim Hobales
May 20, 2007
Flamingo - Saltwater Fishing Report
051907
Today could of been one of my best days ever at Flamingo, I'm fishing with Randy and Melissa Morton from Dallas. We started out fishing some flats that were loaded with Finger mullet, for the most part they just moved into the area in big numbers. The predators weren't far behind the mullet, they were lying in ambush in the potholes as the tide fell of the flats. Randy caught his first Snook, then Melissa caught a 24 inch Redfish. This was one of those days that every cast produced a fish. Randy had a nice hit and it flopped around a little different than anything we had been catching. The fish finally showed itself and it was a nice Tripletail around 5 lbs.. the Trout were big, we caught plenty of Trout,but the interesting thing was we caught 6 Trout between 4 and 5 1/2 lbs.. This is not a normal trout bite but the big ones were in the finger mullet schools like every thing else. The Tarpon would roll in the area once in a while and we would cast but no takers.
I looked at my clock and it said 1230 pm man time flew by! Randy already a slam Trout,Redfish and Snook. I said we need to find a Tarpon lets go! I ran to an area that's a good summer time Spot for Snook and Tarpon. When we arrived the water was really clear and I almost left until we saw a big Snook smash a bait school. Randy eventually caught that Snook. I kept poling down the edge and the water turned a little bit dirtier. There was a stretch where the Snook, Redfish, Trout and Tarpon where stacked up. This is no B.S. between 2 pm and 430 pm a fish was hooked or caught on every cast. Melissa made 7 cast in a row where she caught fish, a 5-Snook a 24-inch Trout and a 27 inch Redfish which is a slam. To top it off she caught 4 more Snook after that, she missed one her next cast then had 5 more fish in 5 cast. That's phenomenal! Randy is Busy catching his Tarpon at this point and accomplishing his "Grand Slam". There weren't to many cast in the 2 1/2 hrs that we didn't get hit, I think we had 40 Snook a few Redfish and couple monster Trout. Here's the way we decided to leave, I suggested the first time all 3 of us cast and don't get hit we would leave. We finally had to leave otherwise we might still be there! This was a speacial day with great people.
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