February 28, 2014 Report

After too many days at a conference in South Beach, Chris was looking forward to the day on the water we had booked weeks before. We had a late start as we waited for the rain and storms to pass through and it turned out to be the right move. We started by fishing for sea trout with soft plastics and landed dozens of them with several of them in the 20"-24" range, BIG trout by Miami standards. We then went off the beach in search of tarpon and while they were there, the conditions proved to be not to their liking and had lockjaw. Off to fish for snapper and grouper and we had a blast with hard pulling fish that barely gave us enough time to rebait hooks. Chris hooked three groupers, losing two to the bottom but finding redemption by finally getting one, a nice black grouper. Capt. Mo Estevez www.MiamiBoneFishing.com

February 27, 2014 AM and PM Report

The morning started ominous with dark clouds, high water and a stiff wind, not good conditions for hunting bonefish and permit on the flats. In spite of this, Tom and Cal hung tough and in good spirits. Tom had a couple of shots on fly at a cruising permit but to takes. Later Cal had a couple of shots at a fun baby tarpon but no hook ups. A few shots at a couple of bones resulted in zero. Fourth quarter and two minutes left in the game and we decided to change tactics. A few minutes before we had to head in one of the rods doubles over and the reel starts to scream. Several long bonefish runs later, Cal holds his first ever bonefish, a big 10 pounder. Yep, he's spoiled now. Congrats Cal! My afternoon trip was with Greg and Tracy from Pennsylvania and we had a nice laid back trip. Anchoring in a creek we caught a number of snappers and got rocked up by a few mystery fish. A big 5' baracuda settled under the boat and ate our offering three times, each time missing the hook intended for him. We ended the day with the winds laying down, the bay becoming glass calm and tarpon rolling all around us. In spite of our best efforts, no hook ups materialized but we had one big fish chase down Greg's lure right to the boat. Capt. Mo Estevez www.MiamiBoneFishing.com

February 26, 2014 Everglades Report

On a guides day off I got to fish a little bit with good friend Grant. In the mirror calm morning we caught trout on soft plastics, had shots a big redfish and tarpon and saw tons of big sharks. In the afternoon we ended up catching redfish. What a gorgeous place Flamingo in the Everglades is and an incredible productive fishery! Capt. Mo Estevez www.MiamiBoneFishing.com

February 23, 2014

Chad and Lori from Nevada occupied the bow this morning in search of bonefish. Boy did we see them! We must have seen over 150 b0nefish today with tons of shots at them. We got into tailing fish, mudding fish, cruising fish and flashing fish. Although we had a number of good shots they were being pickier than usual. Capt. Mo Estevez www.MiamiBoneFishing.com

February 20, 2014

One of my regular clients Steve was armed with flyrod in hand and 20 MPH winds. We played hide and seek, hide from the wind and seek bonefish and permit. Fishing was definitely tough today but we did have some shots at bonefish and big permit. Capt. Mo Estevez www.MiamiBoneFishing.com

February 18, 2014

Joe and Medford from Alabama were on board for some bonefishing and bending rods. We started looking for bones and finding one but no shot at him. With thickening cloud cover we switched gears and fished for snapper and grouper but that was hampered by a big 5' baracuda sitting under the boat eating everything we hooked. Moving on to trout, it proved to be slow but after missing a few bites we finally connected and landed trout. Capt. Mo Estevez www.MiamiBoneFishing.com

February 16, 2014 Report

Taking a break from working the Miami International Boat Show, I had Lisa and six year old Abbey on board this morning for a half day of shark fishing the flats. It was a gorgeous cool morning in the low 50's and clear skies. On flat number one we chummed for sharks and had over a dozen on the flat but the larger 6 footers wouldn't come close and others would swim past our baits. Weird! We changed flats and once the tide so did the shark behavior and the action began. We had four eat and one hook up which we landed. Lisa did a great job fighting the strong, fast lemon shark and we released it after the obligatory photo op. Cool morning, lots of shark action and great people on board. Off to the boat show!

Capt. Mo Estevez www.MiamiBoneFishing.com