Fishing Reports by Capt. Jim Hobales

Hot Bite in July! - The fishing is very dependable right now. I'm finding small Tarpon and lots of Snook to start my mornings. There's an active Tarpon bite for the first couple hours and then we have to work them once the sun comes up. The Snook bite is all day for the more...
Capt. Jim Hobales - Flamingo

Killing it with # NLBN - This is the 3rd week of June 2024. The rain we had for the last 2 weeks has the Snook bite on fire. This happens every June, we get tons of water pushing out to Fl. Bay and the Snook love it. They are also in the backcountry, when it is blowing 15-20 more...
Capt. Jim Hobales - Flamingo

Very active Back country! - June 12, 2024 There are a few things going on going on that's sends me into the back country. The first one is the pea green water in Fl. Bay the second is there has been a great bite in Whitewater Bay. and then a S.W. wind. Pea green water out more...
Capt. Jim Hobales - Flamingo

Spring Break 2024 -Good bite going on! - Spring Break 2024! Flamingo Report! 3/ 12-14/ 24 Last week was pretty good, Mike Drippe and his son Quinton had some great Fishing over 3 days in Everglades National Park. Tarpon, Snook, Redfish, Trout, Goliath Groupers, Sharks, Tripletails more...
Capt. Jim Hobales - Flamingo

Slammin the Backcountry! - 1-27-24 It's been kind of slow, but I still need and want to be on water. I can always call my buddy Mike to help me stay on the fish, Mike keeps my boat running and I appreciate. He' also catches allot of fish. I asked him if he wanted to go Targ more...
Capt. Jim Hobales - Flamingo

Winter in S Florida! - When you think of winter you think of cold and snow up north, but in South Florida it's not that way. Most of the cold fronts this year affect us with a little cold and plenty of wind. It's been a really consistent pattern with a day or 2 of decent more...
Capt. Jim Hobales - Flamingo

Happy New Year,2024! - January 2, 2024 Happy New Year, 2024! The last couple months were strange at best. We had a few Lows come out of the Carribean and cross the Keys and South Florida. The storms reached winds in the Tropical storm range twice but because the storm more...
Capt. Jim Hobales - Flamingo

Late Tropical season should be over! - The last couple months have been slow business wise. The fishing was pretty good until we started getting Low pressures systems late in the season. 3 separate storms flooded and had gale force winds in south Florida and the Keys. We had no hurrican more...
Capt. Jim Hobales - Flamingo

A little work, a little fun and some nice fish! - I fished the patch reefs in Key Largo the last 2 weekends and had a couple good days of Yellowtail and Mutton Snapper. I fished Flamingo a couple a few days but I was down with a bad back last week. 11-25-23 I was a part of a 5-boat tri more...
Capt. Jim Hobales - Flamingo

Change of Seasons! - The past week or so the weather has changed. We have had hard NE winds which pushed the mullet through Biscayne Bay. I got out with my son James on a cool morning and had for the fish to wake up. We found some Snook on a sea wall chasing mullet, luck more...
Capt. Jim Hobales - Flamingo