Back to Fishin'
Capt. Gil Gutierrez
September 20, 2011
Miami - Saltwater Fishing Report
After a small hiatus consisting of family trips, anniversary celebrations and boat repairs I'm back to fishing. For starters I took
The "Lucky Vee" in for some refreshing for the upcoming season and we are ready to roll. Since returning I have had a couple of trips.
The water is still on the warm side but the fish are biting pretty well. What we have been catching has been a very assorted group of fish. The bottom fishing has been good. We have been catching mutton snapper to 11 pounds, horse eye jacks, amberjacks and a couple of other bottom fish. In addition to the bottom fish we have also caught sailfish on every one of our trips, granted it is not like winter sail fishing where we will have several shots at sailfish, but we are still catching them.
The mahi have finally shown up. These fish have been on the decent size with some gaffers and fish you don't have to measure as we often do in the summer. The runs offshore to the mahi have been short about 8-12 miles.
In addition to previously mentioned fish we have the obligatory bonitos to keep the time in between fish busy. Kingfish have also shown up on the reef. The kingfish have not been on the large size but rather consisting of smaller fish but in larger numbers than normal.
Often times you will hear me talk of opportunity fishing or
" fishing for what is biting". Here is an example of what I am talking about. On Saturday's trip we caught a sailfish, 2 african pompano, a large horse eye jack, mutton snapper, 2 bonitos and a kingfish. We were able to put together a nice day because we fished to what the day was offering us rather than what it is we had in mind that we wanted to catch.
Well that is all for now. I do have several trips planned so the reports will appear on a more regular basis.
And as always.
Best of Luck…
Capt. Gil Gutierrez, Lucky Fishing Charters
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