Lots of Storms plus lots of Fish
Capt. Alan Sherman
September 3, 2008
Miami - Saltwater Fishing Report
It's always tough to write a fishing report when the weather has been as disturbed as recently. Not being on the water with charters due to a lack of customers or canceled charters due to the weather makes a fishing guide have to make dozens of calls to find a fellow guide or fishermen who has been driven by the need to wet a line to get a fishing report. Due to high costs of fuel the days when a fishing guide could just take the boat out for a day of scouting or pleasure fishing are gone. To launch your boat or untie it from the marina costs on the average $100 so few fishing businesses have that luxury of finding out what's biting on their own unless you have a charter. Recently I have had to rely on others for fishing reports and what I have found only makes me wish the waters were a bit calmer and the clients were a little braver. Up and down the coast schools of migrating baitfish have been moving along the coast and into the bays. Most of this action is taking place further up the coast and if you check local fishing web site forums you will see that anglers that have been able to get to the water are making a wide variety of great catches. Snook, redfish, large jacks, mangrove and mutton snapper, Spanish mackerel and bluefish have been feeding in and around the ocean inlets on the calmer days in between the storms. Just today I got a report from a fellow offshore captain and he told me of non stop bottom fish action in three to four foot seas off of Miami. His clients were catching mutton and yellowtail snappers plus legal sized red groupers practically on every drop. My brother in law fishing at the Sebastian Inlet during this past Holiday weekend and said loads of redfish, black drum, snook, huge jacks, ladyfish, mackerel, bluefish, snappers, goliath groupers and a few permit were being caught by shore bound anglers. He told me it was literally elbow to elbow fishermen and shoreline to shoreline baitfish. In Flamingo a friend told me of few fishermen but lots of mangrove snappers biting in Florida Bay.
Miami Fishing Forecast:
Unfortunately it looks like storms Hanna, Ike, Josephine and who knows which one will be next will be keeping most fishing guides on land and anglers wishing the weather would calm down. This is the peak of the Hurricane season and more then a month is till left. In between each storm expect the fishing to have the potential to explode in all of the areas of South Florida. Can you wait that long before your next fishing trip? I know I can't!
Call me now or call me later. Now may be better! I will have my boat ready to go so if you get the urge you just might be able to get me to take you with little or no notice.
Captain Alan Sherman
"Get Em" Spotfishing Charters
786-436-2064
[email protected]
www.getemsportfishing.com
Target Species:
Snook, tarpon, Redfish, Cobia, Sharks, Snapper
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