It's finally back on track!!!! January 3, 2023

Fishing was on fire until the big cold front we had on 12/24 and ever since it's been relatively slow.  Oh but today!  Today was different, with seemingly identical conditions to yesterday and the day before it finally popped and the fish were everywhere!  Ira and his son in law David booked me for bonefishing and I have to tell you, I was holding my breath, especially after there was no activity for the first hour.  Ira let me know his freshwater guide a few miles north of us told him just the day before they were struggling to catch fish as well.  Hmmm.  Well, after a while Ira's rod doubles over and he is on to the first bonefish of the day, a solid 8lb fish.  Later David landed his fish at about 9 lbs and then three more come to the boat for a total of 6 fish hooked and 5 landed.  Wow, that felt great.  They're back!!!!

Capt. Mo Estevez

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Happy New Year's Report January 2, 2023

Happy New Year everyone!  After taking the 1st off I was back to work with long time client Bob and Anna.  We met up at the dock and headed on looking for bonefish where once again they proved to be elusive on fly and spin but we did miss to hook ups on fly.  Dang it!  We moved off to look for live bait (pilchards) but no success.  Well, we hit a few spots to bend the rod and all the fish were small but at least we got something in the boat.  Towards the end of the trip and the outgoing tide we fished for bonefish one more time and boy did we work.  Bob later confessed he said to himself "O.K. last cast." when his shrimp got whacked, the rod got a deep bend and the drag smoked.  Finally, a bonefish!  It was solid 9lber to end the day.  Whew, that was close!

Capt. Mo Estevez

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New Year's Eve Report December 31, 2022

I had a full day with great long time and local client Chris with his grand daughter Nicole and her boyfriend Carlos.  These are such great people and I was looking forward to fishing with them.  We started off with zero wind and lots of shots at permit on the surface.  It was a crazy start to the morning seeing so many permit and getting so many shots at them.  Since the forecast called for 15-20 MPH winds I didn't buy live crabs but we threw big live shrimp at them only to have them reject Chris' pin point casts.  How frustrating, we should have hooked a few fish even with big live shrimp but it wasn't to be.  After that cooled off we looked for bonefish but it was slow so we moved on to look for live bait and live chum for muttons and groupers.  Well, no live bait to be found, no pilchards and no pelicans diving on schools of pilchards.  Wow!  Off to the wrecks where ti was also pretty slow but we did land a bunch of blue runners and Carlos caught a big trigger fish that was the highlight of his day.  We ended the day bonefishing where it proved to be just as slow.  This was a shock since we had perfect conditions otherwise.  

Capt. Mo Estevez

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Bomb Cyclone Winter Report December 26-30, 2022

Wow, not like the rest of the country but we got hammered by this winter storm in Miami, by Miami standards.  One day the fishing was on fire with water temps in the mid 70's and bonefish everywhere and then we got hit on 12/24.  The air temps were in the low to mid 40's for about 3 days and barely reaching 55 the next few days with constant cloud cover, drizzling rain and high winds.  What this did is drop the water temps to a freezing 59 degrees and not much likes to be in 59 degree water.  I have to admit, my anglers toughed it out and it all worked out.  I had one trip on 12/26 and then 2 trips per day 12/27-12/29 and a half day on 12/30.  The pattern was find deeper water fish deep and take a brake from bonefishing.  And the other pattern was better fishing during the outgoing tide which was always on the second trip of the day.  This was odd as the water temps were the same but hey, they're fish, I'm not and they always keep me guessing.  Anyway, the highlights were snook on live bait, lots of jacks and muttons snappers in the 10-16" range, a bonefish caught in a channel fishing deep (where I expected them to be trying to stay warm) and an assortment of others species including a warmer day on the 30th that had some small tarpon show up but refuse to eat.  It's been a tough weather week but with great clients and enough action to keep them happy.  

Capt. Mo Estevez

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The Swedes are here! December 21, 2022

Carl and his brother Gus are hard core fishermen from Sweden.  Gus' name really isn't Gus but in spite of my numerous attempts to pronounce his name properly I just couldn't make it happen so they mercifully asked me to call him Gus.  Thank you guys!  Anyway, they wanted to try fishing for bonefish so we gave it a shot.  The morning started with zero wind and a big tide, so much water we couldn't see the bonefish around us except for an a school here and there.  We swung and missed way too many times but the high water was making it tough.  Then we got the slack tide and the action died off.  I told them to wait for the tide to change and as soon as it did the bonefish started moving again.  Thanks for making me look good mister bonefish!  Not long after Carl hooked up and landed his first bonefish, a solid 7 pounder.  A few casts later Gus misses a bite and then Carl hooks up again.  There was a steady flow of bonefish schools moving through and we ended the morning hooking 9 and landing 6.  Most of the fish were in the 7 to 9lb range.  Welcome to Miami Bonefishing guys! 

Capt. Mo Estevez

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More Dad/Son Fun December 19, 2022

Matt and Ryan fished with me for the first time about 8 years ago under terrible conditions and Ryan caught a shark.  Since then, Matt and I have fished a few time which included him sight casting a solid permit some years ago.  Today they were both back in the skiff for bonefish then a fresh fish dinner.  The bonefishing was a little off today but Ryan caught his first bonefish early on.  After that, we took off in search of bait, pilchards to be exact, but they were MIA, no pelicans diving on bait, not large schools, nothing.  We searched high and low and still nothing.  I let the guys know that without pilchards we were just going to catch small fish so we decided to bonefish some more.  That was the ticket!  We missed a few bites towards the end of the trip until Matt hooked up to a solid fish and after a number of big runs, the big bone was at the side of the boat.  Ryan on the other hand never did get his bonefish on fly.  We'll hit it again Ryan! 

Capt. Mo Estevez

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Dad Son Team December 16, 2022

A local client of mine referred Long and his dad Carl to me when they came into town so today was the day we would fish and what a blast we had.  They really could care less what they caught and weren't interested in taking fish to eat so I suggested we give bonefish a shot.  We gave it a shot and the bonefish responded being very nice and giving the guys a great show.  The guys caught 5 bonefish hooked 7 and were impressed with the speed and power of these incredible fish.  The weather has been perfect and the water temps are in the mid 70's, it doesn't get better than that plus now Long and Carl view their local fish in N.Y. with different eyes.  :)

Capt. Mo Estevez

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