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North Biscayne Bay Fishing Report
Capt. Alan Sherman
October 2, 2005
Miami - Saltwater Fishing Report
FISHING NORTH BISCAYNE BAY
with Capt. Alan Sherman
It never fails to amaze me that when the fishing is at it’s best, business is at it’s slowest. Always happens in the early summer and then again right now. Fishing everywhere in South Florida is as good as it gets. Water temperatures today were around 84 and the air temperature is a pleasant low 80. The low 80’s are the magic water temperature for about every fish species that swims in South Florida. And the nicest thing especially with the rising fuel costs is that you don’t have to travel far to find fish. If there is a negative to the fishing then it’s trying to decide what you want to fish for first.
Just to give you a little idea of what I’m talking about we will use the last four trips of mine this past week to use as an example.
On Monday we caught as many Spanish sardines, pilchards and threadfin herring as we wanted in just a couple casts of my net. On our way out to the ocean, which was a bearable 2 to 3’, we passed jack crevalles crashing schools of baitfish over the grass flats. Once out on the ocean we decide to fish close to the beach because I had had reports of a good Spanish mackerel bite. Sure enough along the beach pelicans could be seen diving into the finger mullet schools and pilchards. Terns were diving down and picking off the wounded baits that were being fed on by not just Spanish mackerel but jack crevalles, king mackerel, large tarpon, blue runners, bar jacks and large ladyfish. We anchored near by and soon were catching all of what I just mentioned except the tarpon until we decided to call it a day.
On Tuesday after filling our wells once again with baitfish we by passed the ocean and headed up to Dumfoundling Bay where we released 1 tarpon and jumped 2 others plus had another 5 hits that we never got a hook into before heading out into the ocean where we got into 2 schools of dolphin of which one school had fish in the 6 to 10 lb. class. We landed a half dozen keeping the 4 biggest plus a few jacks then went looking for the mackerel on the beach but they had left the area probably following a school of bait. We headed back offshore to about 100 feet where we caught cero mackerel and bonita’s until it was time to go in.
On Friday we caught our bait in the bay after getting out late. 10 AM. We headed out into the ocean to take advantage of the last calm day before this weekends tropical wave moved in and went looking for dolphin but found none. Came in on a wreck and tried our luck at some bottom fishing. WE put a few nice bottom baits out plus a few live baits on long shank hooks in hopes of getting a nice king mackerel while we bottom fished. For the next 3 hours we had a bite on litterly every bait that hit the water. Bonita’s, mutton snapper to 6 lbs. red grouper to 19”s, amberjacks to 8 lbs. blue runners to 4 lbs., Spanish mackerel, juvenile king mackerel and a 13 lb. king mackerel. While we were bottom fishing we watched a sailfish free jump three times. We were just getting ready to head in when 2 charter fishing vessels that were trolling past us reported dolphin just outside of us. We ran out to where they were and watched them land a few but we had no action so headed on in. Today Sunday, fishing in North Biscayne Bay my three clients, Val, Carlos and George caught close to 70 Spanish mackerel, juvenile king mackerel, ladyfish to 4 lbs., jack crevalles, barracuda, mangrove snapper and sea trout in 4 hours with winds reaching 20 to 25 miles per hour at times. Can it get better then that? Yes on an 8-hour trip we might have had a chance at some tarpon and snook too. .
So What Are You Waiting For! Give me a call and lets take advantage of some of the best fishing of the year!.
Capt. Alan Sherman
786-436-2064
www.getemsportfishing.com
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