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North Biscayne Bay Fishing Report
Capt. Alan Sherman
January 2, 2008
Miami - Saltwater Fishing Report
Happy New Year to all of my friends, clients and family members! Hope everyone had a safe New Year and hopefully ended the year with a fantastic fishing story to boot.
The past month or so has been as busy as it gets for me and my family and I’m sure your December was much the same. I was fortunate to have my college aged kids in town and my wife and I took them on a short winter vacation but once we returned it was back to fishing everyday. The past few Decembers have been pretty much an extended fall and I for one was happy to see that. Snook and redfish plus some large tarpon in Flamingo definitely enjoyed the warmer weather conditions. December has passed and along with it went the mild conditions and that is OK. Locally in North and South Biscayne Bay and Offshore fishing has been so so and that was due to the mild conditions. We saw a good push of bait and mackerel in the bay in November but a tropical system pushed those fish south of us and the warm conditions kept the next group of fish to the north of us. 2008 has brought one of the strongest cold fronts in the last five years and schools of baitfish and predators should already be heading south for warmer waters. That means Spanish and king mackerel, bluefish, pompano, large jack crevalles and schools of baitfish. Snapper and grouper will be stacking up in the finger channels and fishing the Gulf waters of Flamingo and Florida Bay will see increased numbers of mackerel, bluefish, pompano, cobia, tripletail, ladyfish, sharsks, jacks and along the coast snapper, grouper, trout, black drum, redfish and sheepshead will be available.
If you haven’t had the time or a chance to get out on the water then now is the time. The weather conditions will be as pleasant as it gets for the next four months and the fishing will be at its best. So give me a call at 786-436-2064 or send an e-mail at [email protected].
Recent Catches
Jim Weber and his daughter Allie and son Robert fishing a ˝ day in North Biscayne Bay caught small kingfish, bluerunners and bluefish.
Norman Brooks and friends Bobby and Teddy Shull fished Flamingo and caught redfish, jacks, bluerunners, ladyfish, and lots of Spanish mackerel.
Erick Gaston and his wife Allison fished North Biscayne Bay during a ˝ day trip and caught small kingfish, bluerunners and sea trout.
Daniel Falmlen and Zachary fished North Biscayne Bay and caught over 30 mackerel, 2 gag and 1 black groupers to 8 pounds, mangrove snappers and 4 snook.
Alexander Marikos, Daniel Falmlen and Zachary Sherman fished Flamingo and caught 9 snook to 30 inches, 6 redfish to 25 inches, sea trout and a 100 pound tarpon.
Gene Clasby and Bill Errio fished Flamingo and caught snook, redfish, lost a big tarpon plus over a three dozen mackerel, bluefish snapper and sharks.
Don and sandy Blake fished North Biscayne Bay and caught Spanish mackerel, ladyfish, bluefish, snapper, trout and snook.
Scott Libby and his buddy Bob fished Flamingo and caught 10 snook to 28 inches, 10 redfish to 22 inches, sea trout, jacks, mackerel, mutton snappers and ladyfish.
Phillip Kucera and a couple of buddies fished South Biscayne Bay and caught 7 mutton snappers, jacks, mangrove and yellowtail snappers, red groupers, porgies and cero mackerel.
Henry and Maria Succop fished South Biscayne Bay and caught mutton, yellowjacks, yellowtail and mangrove snapper, jacks, cero mackerel and red groupers.
Steve and Bill Fill fished South Biscayne Bay and caught mutton and mangrove snappers plus lots of jack crevalles and bluerunners.
David Lange and his young boys Alan and Ryan fished Flamingo and caught 7 snook, 5 redfish, 6 sea trout and jacks and ladyfish.
Jerry Chaves and his grandsons Jake and Spencer fished South Biscayne Bay and caught lots of mutton snappers to 15 inches, 2 hog fish, porgies, cero mackerel, jacks and bluerunners.
Mark Feldman and his buddy Bob fished Flamingo and caught redfish to 26 inches, snook, black drum, jacks, ladyfish and lots of sea trout.
Joel Dockson and Steve Magellan and Steve Parr fished South Biscayne Bay and caught small mutton snappers, a 20 inch gag groupers, 2 black groupers, grunts, jacks and small mangrove snappers.
Jack Dressner and his son fished Flamingo and caught redfish, snook, sea trout, jacks, ladyfish and 2 goliath groupers.
Check out my report in the Miami Herald’s Sports section under Fishing Updates each Thursday, or tune into the Florida Sportsman Magazines Live Radio Show on WMCU 1080 on the AM dial every Saturday morning from 7 to 8 AM. Check out my new web site and see the monthly catches! Check out my weekly South Florida Fishing Report at www.floridasportsman.com and my monthly South Florida Fishing Report in The Florida Sportsman Magazine each month. We continue to broadcast the Florida Sportsman Magazine Live on WMCU 1080 AM every Sat. morning from 7 to 8 AM where we get up to the minute fishing forecasts from some of the top Capt.’s in South Florida like Capt. Jimbo Thomas on the Thomas Flyer, Capt. Bouncer Smith on Bouncers Dusky, Capt Skip Bradeen on the Blue Chips Too out of Whale Harbor Marina, Capt. Mark Schmidt on the Sundancer out of Murray’s Marina in Key West and Capt. Wayne Conn on The Reward Fleet, Captain jay Cohen on the Spellbound out of Haulover Marina and more.
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