Time for a 12 year old to retire November 20, 2021

Just imagine being in your 40's or 50's and talking to someone about how you've been bonefishing a bunch of times but never caught any bonefish and how's it's been a bucket list fish for years.  Now imagine while you're having this conversation a 12 year old overhears your conversation and innocently chimes in with "Oh, I've caught bonefish before, two big ones two while it was windy and rainy.  It was fun."  Now meet 12 year old Ford from GA and his dad Matt, two great people who were here to watch the Miami Hurricanes play Virginia Tech and the weather was not in their favor.  Yes, it was blowing 20-25 MPH and it was rainy and we got rained on several times.  But, they both caught bonefish including Matt's first and a solid 12 pound bonefish at that.  Wow, these guys really killed it.  We had to head back to the marina to wait out a nasty cell that was moving through and afterwards we hit another spot for other species but we didn't produce anything in the last 20 minutes we had in the trip.  

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Never saw this coming November 15, 2021

Fishing has been on fire regardless of weather conditions, moon phase, air temperatures, whatever, it hasn't mattered so I was excited to get back to work today with Vic and Billy from Boca Raton, FL.  We had great weather although a bit breezy causing us to meet up at Key Biscayne instead of Homestead.  With plenty of big live shrimp I was ready for some snook and bonefish but wow that was not what we got.  I fished these guys all over creation and not a snook or bonefish came to the boat.  I switched off to other species and negative.  Then I finally got them on nice jacks but that was not their cup of tea.  Hmm, a few more spots that were dead before we headed in but Vic got a nice flounder before the trip ended.  This was quite a surprise since we don't have many flounder in Biscayne Bay.  Time to lick my wounds on the way home.  

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Father and son killed it November 14, 2021

 Greg and Mitch joined me today after having to cancel last year due to Covid.  Finally back in the boat we headed off to look for bait and while they were MIA again we did have some shots at the rare Biscayne Bay redfish and Mitch caught a few jacks on lures while Greg was throwing a fly.  On to spot number two and this one was on fire at the beginning of the outgoing tide.  Here the guys caught nice jacks, snappers and snook on fly and lures.  After killing it with almost nonstop action we hit the flats where we wrapped it up with Mitch catching a nice lemon shark on light tackle.  This was a cool trip with Mitch catching his first snook and his first shark.  Way to go Mitch!

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Fall continues it's winning Streak November 13, 2021

I fish with Paul every year and so he was back again today.  Boy did I look high and low for bait but there was no bait.  Thankfully I had a back up but after checking the lsat bait spot I noticed they were holding deep in the bay, too deep for my cast net to reach them down at the bottom but I tried and caught enough to give us a shot at some nice mutton snappers and other hard fighting species.  Setting up on one of my hotspots I started to live chum a bit and the muttons showed up in full force crushing the live baits I was tossing them.  Just as things were getting good two boats set up right not to me to enjoy my hard earned action, zero courtesy.  No sir, I took off and we fish a few other spots finally getting Paul a mutton and some other species that kept the rods bend and the drags worked.  

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He is on fire! November 12, 2021

Day three with Mike and the man is on fire!  We were back in Homestead with perfect conditions (which included over cast skies and zero wind) and off we went to fish for bonefish.  The bonefishing on the outgoing tide was surprisingly slow with only a few schools showing up for our sight seeing pleasure.  With that slow I took Mike to a creek I like for snook and as soon as we got there we see a tarpon roll.  Nice!  I set up Mike with a good angle to cast to the tarpon and he made a few pinpoint casts until the fish saw his fly.  Then, a silver flash, the line comes tight and there's tarpon 3' in the air.  Yes!  After a bunch of jumps and some give and take Mike had his first tarpon in the boat.  Not long after another tarpon rolls and the process repeats itself except this time the tarpon won after the 4th jump.  Once the incoming tide started the bonefish and tarpon started to move but it was tough getting a fly to them as they were either just out of casting distance or staying deep and they would blow out as we moved over them.  But, Mike did get some shots at another tarpon that ate twice but missed getting hooked twice.  That's tarpon for you! 

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The Golden Slob November 11, 2021

 Mike was back at it again but this time we had less than ideal conditions so I decided to fish out of Key Biscayne where we would have some cover from the unusually high winds.  Sticking to fly fishing we were limited in where we could fish and the first spot didn't produce any snook, jacks or snappers.  We were fishing a floating line and I decided to switch reels and use a sinking line.  Well, that didn't last long.  Just a few casts in with the expensive sinking line a black tip shark exploded on a school of mullet and ate Mike's fly.  Cool right? No, not cool because in seconds the shark turned around and bit off the fly line taking with him the crucial sinking tip part of the fly line.  Dang, there went $75.00!  Back to using a floating line but now with a heavier fly.  We bounced around to different spots where Mike caught his first mackerel (several of them) and then jacks, blue runners and then it happened.  At our last stop I had this nagging feeling something was going to happen and after putting a few jacks in the boat, something devoured his fly and make a long run.  Mike tells me "yeah, I'm over my head with this one", hilarious!  Mike did a great job of fighting what would end of being his first snook and a slob at that.  Wow Mike!  

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This didn't take long November 10, 2021

Mike fishes with me several times a year for three days each time and Mike is a really laid back and cool guy and today we got a hot start.  We began by taking advantage of the calm conditions and looked for bonefish on fly.  Not long after Mike gets a bite but missed it.  Then a few minutes later he sweet talked a bonefish into eating and got his first of the day.  Nice!  From there we moved to to snook which were MIA, on fly anyway, and finished the morning loading the livewell with live pilchards.  The plan was to fish structure and live chum so Mike could get a mutton on fly but the wrecks were slow.  However, the last wreck we fished paid off and as I lived chummed Mike kept tossing the fly and caught snapper, yellow jacks, trigger fish (yes trigger fish on fly!) small amberjack, bluefish and blue runners.  In the process he had a huge barracuda try to eat one of his hooked fish and then a big black tip shark also tried the same thing a while later.  We wrapped it up and headed back.  What a fun day with a great guy!   

Capt. Mo Estevez

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