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North Biscayne Bay Fishing Report
Capt. Alan Sherman
November 3, 2004
Miami - Saltwater Fishing Report
Fishing North Biscayne Bay
with Capt. Alan Sherman
North Biscayne fishing has turned to the better in the last week or so with a good variety of fish feeding on pilchards, Spanish sardines, threadfin herring and mullet. Speckled sea trout season closed on Oct. 31’st and will remain closed until Dec. 31st. I really think someone needs to take a closer look at this law seeing the reason the season is closed now is to allow the trout a chance to spawn unmolested but the problem in the north part of the bay as in other parts of Biscayne Bay and south Florida is sea trout spawn more then once and it seems to me in my opinion that they spawn more in the spring and that would be a better time to protect them. The other part of this is that snook season closes Dec. 15th thru Jan 31st. and that allows the sea trout closed season to overlap the closed snook season shutting down 2 of the most popular fish in the bay at the same time. Possibly a better time to close the spotted sea trout season would be March & April or May when most of the bigger sea trout in the bay become more abundant. Spanish mackerel are showing up sporadically in the bay and in real good size with fish as big as 6 lbs. The mackerel have been a hit and miss thing but have been most consistent around the schools of baitfish on both stages of the tide. What I have been looking for are terns and gulls that are working tight areas. Look for the birds to dip quickly to the surface and you might actually see the mackerel, jacks & blue runners attacking the bait on the surface. Schools of small jack reviles and blue runners have been roaming the bay and at times going into a tremendous feeding frenzy’s on the baitfish schools. Tarpon have been thick up in the Dumfounding Bay area but as always mostly rolling and not feeding. Working these fish at night has been the best deal. Snook fishing has been hit and miss and for me mostly during the day with small fish undersize. We have been casting live baits to them. Nighttime shook fishing has been tough with most of the fish near bridge lights. These fish have been very spooky mostly because these are the only fish that are being targeted at night solely because most homeowners on the water have not turned their dock lights back on since the storms.
A few tripletail have been spotted floating around floating debris in the bay and as the year wears on I expect to see many more as I did last year. As of yet I have not seen any pompano in the bay but it should only be a matter of time.
On Nov. 10th from 12PM to 2Pm there will be a meeting at the Miami City Hall, 3500 Pan American Drive on the possible reopening of the food shrimp wing netters during the Nov. – May 31st. harvest season. For the last few seasons the wing netters were not allowed to drag or push nets for shrimp on Sat. nights allowing recreational dip netters a better shot at catching a few plus allowing the adult shrimp an opportunity to reach the ocean to spawn. The wing netters are pushing for a 7-day a week fishery.
Until next time,
“Tight Lines And Good Fishing”
Capt. Alan Sherman
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