October 13, 2014 Report

A lot was at stake today, Kent was celebrating his 40th birthday with his wife Stacey and two brothers all the way from Texas and I wanted to make sure they had a great day. There were two boats today and the second boat had his brothers. Loser buys dinner and you don't want to be the boat that loses on a brotherly wager like that! The day started slow with not much going on in spite of my best efforts and a 25MPH east wind. Kent wanted to try the flats and the flats were surprisingly clean so we staked out and looked for sharks. Kent got one on quickly and released a nice 4' lemon. The day ended with a bang as we released a solid 6 footer close to 200lb shark that took an hour to bring to the boat after peeling over 100 yards of line on the initial run! Happy Birthday Kent! Oh, he wasn't buying dinner that night!

Capt. Mo Estevez www.MiamiBoneFishing.com

October 12, 2014 Report

Local angler Alec had fished with me before and wanted to take advantage of some down time so we headed out early. The snook action was unbelievable! Snook, jacks, barracuda and snappers were busting bait at an incredible pace! You could see snook jumping out of the water as they fed on the bait schools. There were thousands of pilchards also where you could here them hitting the bottom of the boat in the 14" water we were in. Cast netting pilchards and mullet, we tossed both to the snook and hooked two but lost them both, including one well over 30". We also had several bites but no hook ups. As the sun grew brighter the bite stopped and we headed to the finger channels where Alec caught mutton snappers, BIG yellow tail snappers and grouper. It was a blast the the early morning action still has is both reminiscing!

Capt. Mo Estevez www.MiamiBoneFishing.com

October 11, 2014 Report

Regular client David was back aboard for a half day around Key Biscayne. The goal was to get into fish while avoiding the 20MPH winds that was chopping up the bay ans well as getting in before the Columbus Day craziness started. Staying close to the marina the action was fast courtesy of jacks, bluefish, and a couple of snook that took swipes at his lures. No tarpon were around today but mackerel and bluefish are starting to move and that is great news! Capt. Mo Estevez www.MiamiBoneFishing.com

October 9, 2014 Report

Mike and his friend were in town for some meetings and decided to take advantage of a free day. The morning started with tarpon but the action was slow. Switching gears we fished for sea trout and had good action, including some in the 20" range. The day ended shark fishing the flats ahead of a rainstorm that was fast approaching. Before we could get sharks to move in, a large stingray hooks up and is off to the races. We broke it off and moved to a bonefish flat to wait out the storm. As we waited, a school of bonefish moves in and starts feeding just out of casting range. Urgh! A few other bones moved in but stayed the same distance away and it was tough casting to them against a 20MPH wind. After a brief period of shark fishing we called it a day.

Capt. Mo Estevez www.MiamiBoneFishing.com

October 8, 2014 Report

Dustin was back but this time very focused on one species, tarpon. The two main places where tarpon had been holding continued to hold tarpon but the bite was tough. Cast netting finger mullet we moved into position in the middle of rolling tarpon and deployed the live baits. We waited, and waited and waited. One bite is the most attention we received from them in spite of a few tricks that had been working for me. We ended the day in more tarpon but this new group of fish proved to be as reluctant to feed as the others. Capt. Mo Estevez www.MiamiBoneFishing.com

October 7, 2014 Report

Wow, what a difference a day makes! Today Greg jumped aboard with Mike and we had to wait an hour at the boat ramp to wait out the rain. Once on the water, we got rained on for 3 1/2 of the 4 hour trip. These guys were troopers and stuck it out. Fishing was slow as we tried to dodge storm after storm but we picked up a few trout along the way. A break in the weather allowed us to hit the beach in search of tarpon busting mullet schools but no one home. We did run into a school of tarpon but jacks got to our lures before we could get a tarpon bite. We ended the day tarpon fishing in an area that has been producing for me and right before we had to call it a day a tarpon hits and Greg is on! Finally! After a nice fight, the spunky 40-50lb tarpon comes next to the boat for Greg's first tarpon. Awesome!

Capt. Mo Estevez www.MiamiBoneFishing.com

October 6, 2014 Report

Taking a break from a business conference, Greg and Bob jumped aboard and we headed out for a mixed bag of fishing opportunities. Staring at a trout flat, they caught numerous sea trout and lost quite a few more. Switching gears, we went in search of tarpon and while we found some, they were reluctant to bite. Bob did catch a nice spanish mackerel on artificial and that means they are getting here, awesome! Moving to another tarpon spot, Bob hooks a tarpon on artificial but it quickly comes off. Greg on the other hand hooks a nice fish and after taking some drag, it turned out to be a nice jack. We had a nice day with steady action and lots of jokes!

Capt. Mo Estevez www.MiamiBoneFishing.com