4 Days with Mike May 16-20, 2022

The last few days have been tough and therefore I haven't even posted reports about them but a few days of slow fishing and then being left at the dock by a no show client was not good.  But, here's Mike.  I love fishing with Mike and we spent four days this week fishing Biscayne Bay and the Everglades, all on fly.  The days in the bay consisted of losing a bonefish on fly, taking innumerable shots at permit and then looking for snook and keeping the fly rod bent on jacks, snapper, runners and more.  The highlight was the Everglades where Mike tore it up on both days catching snook at every spot we fished, the first day being the best with crazy snook on fly fishing.  At one point Mike landed 4 snoom on 5 casts!  Wow!  We were using black baitfish patterns but the redfishing was slow so I couldn't get him his slam. Wait, I'm not sure why I just turned a very positive report into a negative one.  Oh well, the 'Glades were on fire and Mike is not hooked! 

 Everglades snook on fly Video

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4th Quarter, 2 minutes left May 12, 2022

 John jumps in the boat and tells me he has tried to catch bonefish for years but caught tarpon and bonefish instead.  Ha, poor guy!  Anyway, off to go bonefishing we went.  Spot one produced one bite that didn't get hooked and it slowed down.  Spot two produced another bite but it was a swing and a miss.  Then......it died off.  No fish anywhere as I sweat the prospect of John not getting any bonefish with me.  That was until the tide turned.  With just a few minutes left in the trip the tide, which was running late, finally turned and man it was on!  In just a few minutes John got his first bonefish, lost another and got his second.  Whew that was close! 

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Sometimes I myself wonder May 10, 2022

After a day off, a cancellation and a couple of rod bending trips I had John on board for a full day of fly fishing.  The day definitely did not have the typical calm wind May conditions.  From the moment we boarded the skiff it was already blowing 10-12 MPH.  Spot one was slow so off to spot two.  Spot two produced yesterday when I had a cancellation and a buddy of mine and I fun fished for a few hours but the bones were picky yesterday.  I needed to figure this out.  With the wind increasing I set John up with a good angle to take shots at passing schools and they came, from all different directions!  Dang man they don't cooperate sometimes.  Anyway, John got a number of bonefish to turn on his fly but not eat at the last minute, had one eat his fly but missed the strip set and got two on spin gear and shrimp before it all slowed down and the wind increased to about 20MPH.  Last stop was the lee of an island where he had some shots at big snook and even had a bonefish try to eat his baitfish pattern a few feet from the boat.  So cool! 

Capt. Mo Estevez

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The deadly Duo May 4,5 &6, 2022

I could not have two better guys on board for three days.  Matt and Mo are from Martha's Vineyard and they can fish and throw a fly.  We had three perfect May days as May should be and the fishing was red hot.  We focused on bonefish, tarpon and permit and all three days the guys had tons of shots and hooked bonefish all three days but Murphy's Law was hanging over us.  On day One Mo hooked a bonefish on fly on his second cast and spit the fly next to the boat right before release.  Matt followed up with a hook up not long after but the fish broke him off.  The shots kept coming and the schools kept getting bigger.  At the end of three days we finally got one to the boat after dozens of shots, numerous hook ups and plenty of laughs and general teasing.  What a great three days! 

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Oh so close so many times! May 2, 2022

I had Nick on board today with fly rod in hand for some general fly catching so we started off for snook where he had a couple of hits but swings and miss.  WIth the wind increasing I took him to a few wrecks where he caught a bunch of snappers and jacks on fly.  As the wind increased we fished the lee of a key next to a channel and waited for the bonefish to move out of the channel and onto the flat. It took longer than I would like but eventually they started to move through and Nick had plenty of shots at bonefish, turning a few with the fly but not getting a commit.  

Capt. Mo Estevez

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Family Fun May 1, 2022

I had Dan and his two boys today with the goal of keeping the boys busy.  We started early in order to beat the weekend crowd and got on fish right away with the boys catching small mutton snappers, mangrove snappers, small grouper, trigger fish, blue runners and small amberjacks on a shallow ship wreck.  We finished off the trip on the flats for small to medium sharks where the boys landed one shark and hooked a couple more that came off.  

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It worked backwards April 30, 2022

Alex was back on board today with his buddy Brandon and the weather worked backwards today.  It started off nasty with us having to constantly change spots to avoid the lighting and strong rain but thankfully Alex is a tough guy and we stuck it out.  We made a long run to almost north Key Largo where there was a clear spot with no storms and we bonefished getting Alex a nice bonefish.  As the weather started to clear and Brandon really wanting a shark we moved back north as the weather slowly improved.  We couldn't make it to the shark flats but I found a small mullet mud, probably the last mullet mud of the year and worked it lures.  It was on fire with the guys catching bluefish or lady fish on almost every cast as long as we were on a certain spot of the mud.  Man, it was a cool day today with great guys and a strong finish to a super busy month for me.

Capt. Mo Estevez

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