I know it's been a few weeks or more since my last Fishing Update Report and I apologize for not getting a report or sooner. Since my last fishing report I have been fishing North Biscayne Bay, Offshore of Miami, in Flamingo, Marathon and Islamorada in the Florida Keys. I have fished many clients during that period plus some old friends, my family and with fellow editors of many different publications. I have some great fishing reports to report and hope you can find the time to read this report plus I had the great opportunity to spend a few days rubbing shoulders with some important people in the fishing industry like George Poveromo of Saltwater Sportsman, Bob Sterns, Rodney Smith of Coastal Angler, Sam Hudson of Florida Sportsman Magazine, Sue Cocking of the Miami Herald and a few others. I also had the opportunity to stay at the Coral Lagoon Resort and Marina in Marathon and the Cheeca Lodge in Islamorada. I will report more on my excursions in Islamorada and Marathon at another time but at this time let's talk fishing.
Let's start with North Biscayne Bay! Summer like conditions have brought water temperatures into the mid 80's and many of the Bay fish have started to feed more during the 7 to 11 AM and 4 to 8 PM hours and then shutting down during the hottest part of the day. Due to these conditions I highly recommend booking a half day charter. The late afternoon charters have been hampered by strong late afternoon thunderstorms and I expect these conditions to hold for awhile. Once these storms subside the winds have dropped off and the Bay has been flat calm. These late afternoon storms have been forming over the Everglades and then rushing east and then falling apart as they head offshore. These storms have not been a problem at Flamingo. North Biscayne Bay has produced lots of sea trout from 12 inchers to over 20 inch fish and the trout are eating live baits and artificial lures like the Hookup lures tipped with a Gulp shrimp and Rapala X Raps and Twitchin Raps. A few snook are being caught in the Bay along with tarpon, jacks, barracudas, quite a few mangrove snappers and some sharks.
Offshore when the weather has allowed and baitfishes are available has produced jack crevalles to 17 pounds. Almoco jacks, amberjacks, gag groupers, mutton snappers, kingfish, blackfin tuna, sailfish, bonitos and dolphins.
Flamingo in Everglades National Park has produced great early morning and late afternoon tarpon action, lots of hungry sea trout, cobias to over 30 pounds, redfish, small Spanish mackerel, a few permit, lots of sharks, an occasional snook, and lots of tripletail.
While in the Florida Keys dolphins to 18 pounds are being caught along with a lot of small blackfin tuna, mangrove and yellowtail snappers and an assortment of jacks.
Check my web page at www.getemsportfishing.net to see some of the great recent catches that my anglers, friends and family have made recently.
RECENT CATCHES:
Almost all of the catches reported below where made on Key Largo Fishing Rods, Daiwa Advantage 3000, 35000 and 4000 spinning reels, Mustad hooks, Hookup lures, Gulp scented baits, Rapala plugs, Cajun Thunder floats, Fins and Berkley braided lines.
Terry and Ralph fished North Biscayne Bay and caught Tarpon, Barracudas, Sea Trout, Snappers and Jacks on live pilchards fished on a Mustad long shank hook and on Rapala plugs and Hookup lures tipped with a Gulp shrimp.
Fishing in Marathon out of the Coral Lagoon Resort and Marina with my family during a day and half of stormy weather we managed to catch dolphins to 11 pounds, over 100 yellowtail snappers keeping 14 of the biggest, mangrove snappers to 5 pounds plus sharks and almoco jacks.
Fishing in Flamingo with Dr Ken and buddies Alan and Tom the trio had plenty of action from sea trout, jacks, ladyfish and lost two tarpon on light tackle when one threw the hook on the second jump and the other stripped the reel after catching the line on a downed tree root.
Fishing with Jeff and Scott along the Gulf Coast of Flamingo the guys released snook, jacks, sea trout, tripletail, ladyfish and a 60 to 70 pound tarpon that ate a live pilchard. Jeff landed a nice redfish that ate a Rapala X Rap. Jeff had a Backcountry Grand Slam!
Fishing with my daughter Courtney and son Zach offshore of Miami after filling our live wells with cast netted live pilchards we released jack crevalles to 17 pounds, bonitos, almoco jacks to 15 pounds, amberjacks to 30 pounds and landed a small yellowfin tuna and two snowy groupers.
Fishing with Manny his son Manny and Joey the guys fished all over offshore and lost three kingfish that cut our lines before heading inshore where we released three barracudas and a trout and fought a nice tarpon of about 60 pounds for 15 minutes before the fish broke the line on a dock piling.
Fishing with Joel and Steve in Flamingo Steve released a large tarpon and Joel jumped another before we moved on and caught a ton of small sharks and lots of sea trout before hooking up on two big cobias that were landed. The fish ate live pinfish hooked to a Mustad 4/0 short shank Ultra Point hook and weighed 28 pounds and over 30 pounds. The guys also kept and released tripletail.
Fishing with Dr Karody and his wife and nephew the trio released a small cobia and kept three limits of sea trout, a redfish and released a lot of sharks and tripletail.
Fishing in North Biscayne Bay Mike and his son Dan and Dan's daughter Mya 10 years old the guys got out fished by Mya two to one. The trio caught and released over 20 sea trout to 19 inches plus a few snappers casting Hookup lures tipped with a Gulp shrimp.
Fishing with Andrea of Columbia Sportswear, Randy W., Jonh K, and Rodney S on the Hunters Charters with captain Chris Barth out of Islamorada we all caught dolphins to 18 pounds plus a handful of small blackfin tunas.
Fishing on a group charter out of North Biscayne Bay, Bo and his wife Nancy caught 10 sea trout, mangrove snappers and jack crevalles trolling Rapala X raps and casting Hookup lures tipped with a Gulp shrimp under a Cajun thunder float.
YOUR UP NEXT! Just give me call and let's see what we can catch!
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Check out my report in the Miami Herald's Sports section under Fishing Updates each Thursday, the Florida Sportsman Magazines South Florida Internet Fishing Report
www.floridaspotsman.com), my monthly Action Spotter Fishing Report for the South Region in the Florida Sportsman Magazine each month.
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I expect the fishing to be pretty consistent for the next three or four months with lots of SEA TROUT, JACK CREVALLES, LADYFISH, GROUPER, BARRACUDAS, SNOOK and TARPON in NORTH BISCAYNE BAY and OFFSHORE of MIAMI KINGFISH, SAILFISH and DOLPHINS available on the calmer days and in FLAMINGO in EVERGLADES NATIONAL PARK will have a huge amount of wildlife like the WHITE PELICANS, ROSEATTE SPOONBILLS, SKIMMER BIRDS,GULLS, OSPREYS, EAGLES, TERNS, EGRETS, HERONS, ALLIGATORS, CROCODILES, BOTTLE NOSED DOLPHINS, MANATTEES, SHARKS and TURTLES and of course the wide variety of fish that migrate into FLORIDA BAY and the GULF waters during the cooler months of the year. SNOOK, TARPON, REDFISH, SEA TROUT, SHEEPSHEAD, TRIIPLETAIL, BLACK DRUM, SNAPPER, GOLIATH AND GAG GROUPER, POMOPANO, COBIA, MACKEREL, BLUEFISH and I'm sure I am leaving a few other fish species out will be available to all anglers at one time or another through the Summer Fishing Season.
