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Flamingo - Everglades National Park
Capt. Ariel Cabrera
March 27, 2005
Flamingo - Saltwater Fishing Report
South Florida and Flamingo Spring Report
Spring fishing is in full effect in south Florida, Everglades, and Biscayne Bay. Down at Flamingo there has been a solid seatrout bite. In fact, it has been spectacular. With some awkward winds we are making some slight adjustments and catching plenty of fish. The fish around have been quite varied making for some very interesting days on the water.
Dr. Mann fly fished a day with me and caught close to two dozen trout along with ladyfish and jack. Later that week I had Cheryl Gold and friend from Israel for another me moral trip. DOA shrimps have been the hot lure on calm days. The intention was to catch fish and we did just that. We boated around 40 trout plus many more species. Harvey and father had their birthday fishing trip and also did some fly fishing even in twenty knot winds. Harvey landed close to a dozen trout-his father did the same. We later found some shelter in a remote creek where we caught jack, snapper, sheepshead, and lost a snook on a fly. Special thanks to Capt. Matt Urich for his kind referral.
Nicole Dennison and sister Karen came for two days and we scored snapper, flounder, trout on the first day. The second day took us into the deep backcountry where we slammed five nice redfish and more sheepshead and snapper.
Somewhere in between I had an opportunity to fish the no-motor zones in my canoe with Andreas Sokolloeks and did some fly fishing. Andreas boated a jack in the twelve pound range. We then sighted some black drum on the flats but no takes on fly. We hooked was we thought was a snook but the hook did not set therefore the fish got off. And finally after 50 minutes of an ensued battle with a “gynormous” crevalle that went over twenty pounds was taken. It was Andreas largest fish ever ! E-mail me if you want to see photos.
Long-time client Tom Domack and son fished Whitewater Bay with me to catch lots of trout, snapper on lures. Then Gary Whitacre and Larry Lynch teamed up with me for four days of excitement. Day one was trout, goliath, snapper, and sheepshead. This sheepy caught by Larry was the largest of the season at 5 pounds. Day two took us deep into the canepatch area and we caught bass, snook, redfish, snapper, and a grouper. We had some tarpon sightings but no bites. Day 3 was trout, pompano, drum, and snapper. Day 4 we went to Everglades water management are where they caught around 25 largemouth on plastic worms and senkos.
The week topped off with Jerry Stone who picked up the flyrod and caught five fish during the midday. Jerry and I will be fishing again soon for tarpon later this spring. Special thanks to Jerry for allowing my son to come along on this trip.
Other hot fish are peacock and nighttime snook. This is prime time for bonefish don’t miss out because water temps. are ideal. Call me for the latest report. Now booking for tarpon.
Capt. Ariel will conduct a fishing seminar at West Marine in Cutler Ridge at 7:00 pm on April 12th. The store is located on US 1 and 195th street the tel (305)232-0811
Capt. Ariel (305)552-9788
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