He just catches studs! December 20, 2021

Can you believe we are only 5 days away from Christmas?  Anyway, Eric has fished with me plenty of times before and on his first trip last year he wanted to try bonefishing.  So, he proceeds to land a 12 pounder and his father in law a 10 pounder, dang!  Well today he brought his friend Cosmo who doesn't fish so I kept it simple with snappers and blue runners and they had a blast.  I then took them to shark fish on the edge of a flat and after a while Cosmo hooks up to a nice lemon shark and proceeds to break him off deep into the long blistering run.  As I set up again I look back and there's a school of mudding bonefish a decent cast off our stern!!!!  I rigged a shrimp but when I cast they were moving away.  Hmm, there should be another school.  Yes, there was indeed another school and this time Eric scored!  The initial run had the water was rooster tailing off the line and I could tell this was a big fish.  Well, several solid runs later Eric had a slob bonefish at the side of the boat.  Dang, Eric just catches stub bonefish!  

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Making the Kids Happy December 18, 2021

 Some trips are just fun and today I had John with his boys, 7 year old Arvand and 9 year old Daksie (Dakota).  The trip was cool as the boys just wanted to catch fish and have fun and that they did with an assortment of snappers, jacks, barracudas and more.  The total tally was Arvand 15 fish Daksie 8 fish (boy they lost plenty more!).    

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Redemption! December 13, 2021

 After a slow week last week that I could hardly stomach I had the weekend off and patiently waited for my Monday trip with Jim in order to see if fishing had improved and find some kind of redemption.  So, Jim jumps in the boat and off we go.  Jim wanted to fly fish but with steady 20 MPH winds that would be difficult so Jim was smart enough to decide to pick up a spinning rod at the beginning of the trip and we targeted bonefish.  Well, it didn't take long for Jim to tie in to a nice bonefish and enjoy the blazing fast runs.  After a release he was at it again and not 10 minutes later he was on again!  Another release and he was ready for something else.  I took him to a tarpon spot that was void of tarpon so off to a snook spot that had no snook but had tarpon, go figure.  He tossed flies at the 3-40lb rolling tarpon but after a period of no bites we wrapped up the trip catching jacks on fly and he had a blast.  It's tough not enjoying jacks on fly.  Whew, I can sleep better tonight! 

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Not this time Mike December 13-17, 2021

 Wow, what a rough week for Mike and I as we fly fished this week.  I had started to notice a downward trend on my trip with Gabby and Bella as the fishing started to slow but wow this was humbling.  We fished most of the days out of Homestead and one day out of Key Biscayne.  All in all Mike caught fish but they were all small.  The highlight was us snook fishing at the end of one of the days and he mentions how he would like to catch a snook off the mangroves.  Ha, 30 minutes later a snook eats his fly tossed into the mangroves and he was once again spoiled.  In my search for action for Mike I took him offshore on a calm morning to fly fish for big mackerel but there were 6-8 other boats at the spot in 80' of water live baiting and no one caught anything except for Mike who got his first bonita on fly.  Go figure!  Tough week for sure.  

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The girls December 4, 2021

 I think it's so cool when a woman loves to fish and is willing to do it on her own as was the case with Bella who invited her friend Gabby along for some fishing.  Initially they wanted to bonefish but when they said they just wanted to catch fish then we changed it up.  I took them to a ship wreck where Gabby caught her first fish and more and then we hit the flats for sharks where it took longer than usual but Bella had two bites and lost the second shark close to the boat after about a 15 minute fight.  These ladies rock! 

Capt. Mo Estevez

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"Laughing all the way" December 3, 2021

 Man these guys were funny.  I had Max and his childhood friend aboard and these guys were hilarious, generally "fish bagging" all trip long.  We were bonefishing and we stuck to the plan but with high water it was tough to find them in time to throw a fly to them as the king tides gave us about 2 feet of extra water.  Anyway, we had some shots, blew out some fish and the struck out on snook but along the way they caught some jacks and missed a few snook bites on lures.  

Capt. Mo Estevez

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Just doing our thing December 2, 2021

 Berry was onboard today with for a morning of generally chasing bonefish.  We've had beautiful weather so far and today was one of those days.  We chased some bones around but couldn't hook up so we finished off the trip bending rods on an assortment of species to keep the rods bent.  

Capt. Mo Estevez

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