Whopper Mackerel in Biscayne Bay
Capt. Alan Sherman
October 27, 2009
Miami - Saltwater Fishing Report
October is nearly over and the great fishing that I have been talking about for the past three weeks hasn't really materialized as I had described it. This is due to the unusually hot conditions that we are experiencing this Fall. Because of the very hot conditions it looks good that we will see a Fall fishing pattern that could reach way into December. Finally this past week signs of the Fall Migration getting under way in South Florida have been apparent. My last five charters took place in North Biscayne Bay, South Biscayne Bay and Flamingo in Everglades National Park and provided all of my clients with a lot of action from a wide variety of marine species. These last clients are the fortunate ones, the ones that have benefitted by the extra action that a migration of baitfish and predators can provide this time of year.
Fishing in North Biscayne Bay has provided my anglers with action from tarpon, large jack crevalles, sea trout of all sizes, large mangrove snappers for the bay, barracudas, sharks, bluerunners and Spanish mackerel. Large schools of pilchards and Spanish sardines have been holding in the Bay attracting these gamefish.
South Biscayne Bay has been active with Spanish mackerel to six and a half pounds, bluerunners, jacks and some nice gag groupers. The snappers, groupers, bluefish, ladyfish and pompano have yet to move into the Finger Channels but that will change as soon as water temperatures get below 80 degrees.
Flamingo has had great action from tarpon, snook, redfish, sea trout, pompano, snapper, jacks, ladyfish, sharks, tripletail, Spanish mackerel, pompano and permit in Florida Bay and the Gulf and in the back country of Whitewater Bay snook, redfish, sea trout that are golden in color, ladyfish, jacks, snapper and goliath groupers have been eating our Gulp baits hooked to a Hook Up lure along with Rapala Twitchin Raps and X Raps.
Offshore fishing off of Miami is producing Spanish mackerel and bluefish, jacks and ladyfish along the beaches and kingfish, dolphins, skip jack tuna, sailfish and snappers outside the reef.
Here's the nice thing as of this writing we have had just one significant cold front come through South Florida and water temperatures are still holding in the 80's. It will take at least three or four strong fronts to get the baitfish schools that are holding north of us to make the run south. Looks like that will start to happen real soon.
There is still plenty of time to take advantage of what looks like a great season of Fall and early Winter here off of Miami in South Florida.
On a sad note I must take a moment and let all of my loyal readers and listeners of the Florida Sportsman Magazine Live Radio Show in South Florida know that my last radio show was last week and Florida Sportsman magazine Radio Live will air its last radio show here in Miami on October 31st. I have been involved with the radio show for the last eight years, the show was on the air for 12 years and only because of a lack of advertising is this show and three others being discontinued as of Oct. 31st. I want to thank all of our listeners for being there for us each and every Saturday morning at first when we were on WAXY at 8 to 9 AM and then from 6 to 7 AM and then when we left WAXY to go to WKAT at 7 to 8 AM and finally to WMCU from 7 to 8 AM. I want to thank all of our Action Spotters and Advertisers that helped make the radio show number one when were on WAXY 790. I for one am not happy about the show being canceled but the truth of the matter is if there is no income being generated by the show then the show cannot go on. If anyone out there is interested in being a featured advertiser at the cost of $250 a show each week then we can bring the show back on the air. I have been offered a spot at a very good sports minded radio station that is willing to give us an hour on Saturday mornings and for that $250 ad that person would get there name or company's name mentioned as the feature advertiser at the beginning of the show, after each break and at the end of the show. They would also have their name or company's name mentioned on at least one of this radio stations sister station plus the one we were aired on and possibly on a third one as well during week day and weekend programming.
That catches us up for now!
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Miami Fishing Forecast:
Here's the nice thing as of this writing we have had just one significant cold front come through South Florida and water temperatures are still holding in the 80's. It will take at least three or four strong fronts to get the baitfish schools that are holding north of us to make the run south. Looks like that will start to happen real soon.
There is still plenty of time to take advantage of what looks like a great season of Fall and early Winter here off of Miami in South Florida.
Target Species:
Tarpon, Snook, Redfish, Sharks, Cobia, Trout, Spanish mackerel
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