The girls tore it up! January 16, 2021

 Elisa and Maria were aboard again ready to give it a shot out of Homestead this time.  They are great to fish with and they wanted dinner.  I had about 150 baits in the live well and thought that would be enough.  Well, we fished one spot and one spot only, a shallow wreck in 8 feet of water.  IT WAS ON FIRE!  The ladies caught fish or at least had a bite on every cast for three hours!  In the process they kept enough fish to last them a few weeks.  Maria kept talking about the snook shae caught last time we fished so when we ran out of bait we hit the creeks for snook.  They were there, we saw them, they swam passed us, they said hi but refused to eat.  Urgh, that's snook for you! 

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This was a surprise January 12, 2021

Jerry was back in the boat after 5 years.  He is always a blast to fish with and used to catch tarpon with me during tarpon season.  Being January, that's a little harder to do but we gave it a shot and found a few tarpon but we mixed it up throughout the day.  The fish of the day was a huge sheeps head he caught.  That was very cool!  Jerry also caught yellow jacks, snappers, horse eye jacks and more.  I tried to get him his first snook but they were MIA. 

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College Football Championship Charter January 11, 2021

 I had the pleasure of fishing with Scott and his two boys, Elliott and Ames today for a half day in the morning who were in town from Alabama to attend the championship game.  I launched out of Homestead and ran to Key Biscayne to pick them up and on the way my heart sank.  We have 7 houses left in the famous area of Stiltsville and one of them was on fire.  As soon as I got out of the channel in Homestead 20 plus miles south I could see the smoke billowing and hoped for the best.  As I got closer and ran past the house it was confirmed, we lost another one.  

But, on to a more upbeat report.  Scott and the boys were great, smoked through 10 dozen baits and Elliott got his first snook.  They also caught jack crevalles, mangrove snapper, mutton snapper, hors eye jacks and of course the snook.  Way to go guys and good tluck tonight! 

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It was cold today! January 10, 2021

 Boy was it cold today, 45 degrees when I left the house to meet Austin at the marina.  But, more importantly was the water temperature.  The water temps were in the 64-65 degree range, cold by our standards.  Under the same conditions I had fished on December 26 with David and Brian for snook and tore it up so I did the same with Austin.  The difference today?  The snook were MIA.  I decided to look for bonefish but on the oceanside flats that would have the warmest water in the bay and even here it only inched up 1 degree.  Even still we had a few bonefish eat but missed the take each time.  With Austin having to be back right at 11am we had to wrap it up and fly back to the marina.  Oh, I want another shot at this!  

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Oh it was on today! January 8, 2021

It's Alec's birthday tomorrow and what a better way to spend the day than fishing with him.  Every time we fish we have a blast and the laugh are in steady supply.  We had a west wind and that caused the west side of the bay outside of the marina in Homestead to be super calm.  As we fished for snook, the first spot was slow.  I took him to another spot down the shoreline and it was on with tailing tarpon and big bonefish.  After numerous shot at a tarpon and not hooking up we turned our attention bonefish and quickly got a nice 9 lber to the boat.  The snook fishing was slow and we wrapped it up breaking in his new plug rod but there were no big fish around, probably due to the approaching cold front.  Happy birthday Alec! 

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Rod Bending Day January 6, 2021

 I had Andy this morning as a last minute charter.  He called me at night and asked about fishing the following morning, so of course I said yes and here we were looking for snook.  The snook spots were desolate so we moved on but that second spot was slow, in large part due to the slack tide.  I stuck it out and when the tide turned and we got some current it was on!  There were tons of jacks, black tip sharks and snappers keeping Andy busy.  So busy in fact we had a system going where I would bait a rod, take his rod that had landed fish on it hand him the baited rod and by the time the fish was off the hook, he was on again.  It was a blast and it was on fire! 

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It was an honor today January 5, 2020

 There are times when you meet someone that is a little different than most and that can be good or bad, HAHA.  But, today I met Jan and spent 6 hours fishing with him and can tell you it was an honor fishing with him.  See, Jan is a retired breast cancer surgeon who I suspect has saved the lives of many women through his gift and passion for his craft.  Also, he is an IGFA representative who has travelled the world fishing and promoting conservation for the betterment of fish stocks and the local populace.  And there is more as he is the holder of 90 current IGFA world records!  Of course he is as humble as they come and I didn't know about this until more than half way through our trip.  But he had one goal and that was to bonefish but it wouldn't be easy since we had a strong cold front pass through the night before dropping the air temperatures.  Well, long story short, Jan caught a nice fat bonefish in the 9 lb range and had shots at many more on spin and fly as we did our best to hide from the wind and look for the warmest water possible.  And there is one more thing to this trip but I won't ruin the surprise until we get confirmation in about 3 months.  Be sure to stick around.....

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