New Year in High Gear January 1-17, 2025

Happy New Year everyone!  2025 has started off red hot and it's been a ton of fun.  This is the time of year when I fish the natural channels that cut between the flats known locally as the "finger channels" but iI haven't done that much this month as clients have been booking me mostly for bonefish and other hard to catch species.  The bonefishing has been red hot with some trips yielding half a dozen bonefish on a half day trip.  For those that don't know, catching one bonefish in Biscayne Bay is quite an accomplishment but that has been the bare minimum for us, it's been outstanding!  Resident tarpon have also been around for the first hour or two of the early morning with the se tarpon being in the 20-80lb range feeding mainly on live shrimp or soft plastics.  The "potluck" fishing in the aforementioned finger channels has been good but I haven't done it as much lately.  This type of fishing will yield snappers, porgies, a variety of jacks plus some pompano and mackerel.  We've had consistent cold fronts but the water temps have been a perfect mid to low 70's and I expect more of the same for the balance of the month.  Stay tuned for the second half of my January report, it should be good!

Capt.  Mo Estevez 

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Wow, what a new year wrap up! December 21-31, 2024

Wow, wow wow what a way to wrap up 2024! As I mentioned in my previous report beginning of December fishing was a bit slow, but it got shifted into high gear and it's been absolutely a blast. Fishing in Biscayne Bay went from good to incredible the second half of this month and fishing in the Everglades has been a ton of fun and very productive. In the Everglades we've been catching tons of trout, some redfish but snook fishing has been a bit slow. But as we turn our attention to Biscayne Bay we've been catching bonefish almost every trip we have targeted them and the last two trips of 2024 have been absolutely magical. On the 30th I fished with regular client Kevin and we had an insane day, hooking four Tarpon and landing two of them, hooking eight permit and landing five, losing a snook and hooking four bonefish and landing one to complete our grand slam. The following day wrapping up 2024 I fished with visiting clients David and Lia and the fishing continued to be on fire. We started the morning with David catching his first snook and Lia jumping her first Tarpon then we moved off where they got a doubleheader of bonefish then David hooked and landed his first tarpon and we wrapped up the trip and 2024 with them releasing 12 bonefish. What an insane couple of days what a great December and an amazing 2024. Happy new year everyone!

Capt.  Mo Estevez 

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It's Finally Back open Track December 1-20, 2024 Report

 I have to admit, it's been a tough December so far, well until this week.  The first week or so of December I was busy with charters and it was a grind.  The weather was good, the moon phase was great and the water temps were perfect and yet fishing was a grind.  During this time we didn't catch and bonefish or snook and most of the trips were working hard for the fish we did land.  As is typical this tome of year I had a bout a week off while travelers settled in from their Thanksgiving travels and work slowed down.  During this time the wind cranked up and it was windy over 20 MPH every day I was off.  Then this week I started to get busy again and thankfully the fishing turned back on.  Yes!  I had a double on my return back to work with Jared catching snook in the morning trip and Evan and Sam landing bonefish, pompano, snappers and jacks in the afternoon trip.  The last two days I was out of the Everglades and Alec loaded up on Thursday catching redfish, trout, shark, ladyfish, jacks and more and some shots at a bunch of tarpon.  We ended the trip and 2024 on a perfect note with Alec landing a double of nice redfish literally on the last cast.  Wow!  The following day I was back in the Everglades with Anders fly fishing for snook, redfish, tarpon and anything else.  We started the morning throwing flies at tarpon that refused to eat and landing a bunch of jacks and ladyfish.  As we moved around the 'Glades we sight casted at triple tail and tarpon but no eats.  With the windy increasing ahead of the cold front, the water getting really muddy and the tide extremely low we had few options.  However, I took him to the end of a creek and there he caught ladyfish on almost every cast and on the last cast of the day he landed his first redfish.  Wow, what a way to end the trip and a two day stretch in the Everglades.  

Capt.  Mo Estevez 

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November 21-30, 2024 Report

Welcome back everyone to my monthly report. It's been a crazy busy month as I've been on the water almost every day and the last half of the month we've had absolutely perfect weather. However, the fishing has been up and down. In spite of some struggles we've been able to make it happen on most of the trips  beginning with my trip with Barry during a cold front. The snook fishing was pretty slow, but we were able to capitalize on some bonefish. Then I fished with Chris for bonefish on fly and once again it was pretty slow, but we were able to score on spin towards the end of the trip. The balance of my trips were with different clients using fly or spin.  On some trips we focused on just catching a lot of different fun species while others we focused on either snook or bonefish. We've had to work for the fish we have caught so far this month and for some strange reason most of November the weather was pretty crummy and the fishing was good, but once the weather got perfect as it typically is in November the fishing started to become inconsistent. We just had a cold front move through so I expect the water temperatures to drop and more fun species to move in during the month of December. It's been a solid month and I expect December to be pretty fun with bonefish, snook, tarpon, mutton snappers, yellow jacks, and grouper as the grouper start to move in shallow off the reef.

Capt.  Mo Estevez 

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November 12-20, 2024 Report

Well folks, I have to admit November weather has been highly disappointing. As I've mentioned before November weather is usually absolutely perfect but so far this month it's been pretty tough with high winds, cloud cover and all around difficult conditions. In spite of the tough conditions fishing remains pretty solid and most of my fishing has consisted of bonefish and snook. We've mixed it up a little bit with sharks, but most of my clients have wanted bonefish or snook and I have gladly obliged. All my snook fishing has been on top water lures but we have been able to get some on fly. However, it seems like the king tides have returned because this past week the tides have been 3 feet above normal. The challenge here is with big tides the snook will sneak deep into the mangoes making it almost impossible to reach them. However, we've been able to start as early as possible and fish some of the shallower creeks and shorelines trying to mitigate some of the high water. Once the tide has reached a level too high to snook fish, we have switched over to bonefish and generally done pretty well. The best day so far was a two trip day where we hooked a total of 19 bonefish in the morning and afternoon trips and both clients landing 6 bonefish. That was a pretty amazing day and I can only wish each day was like that. Here are some pictures of this past week and stay tuned for more recent reports to come!

Capt.  Mo Estevez 

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November 1-11 Report 2024

Wow, November has not been like it typically is. Usually November we have absolutely perfect weather conditions but this November we have been beat up by some high winds. There were a few days where I was fishing in 25 to almost 30 mile an hour winds. However, as of today the wind dropped and we started off with really calm conditions, which was such a welcomed change of pace. Over the last 10 days I have been able to fish with a number of different clients. The wind didn't start to get really bad until right around election day, no surprise, but I started off the month with Peter and he was able to land a few bonefish, the following day I fished with Jordan and we caught a bunch of different species including very cool look downs. The next couple of days was with Dan and Jim in 25 to almost 30 mile an hour winds and the bonefish would not cooperate, although I've had some fantastic bonefish days under these brutal conditions. Then I fished with Glenn for a couple of days where we caught trout on top water, missed quite a few snook on top water and tried bonefishing, but that was slow. The next trip was with Paul and Bill, and these guys were a blast to fish with. We fished a six hour charter and here we caught snook and bonefish so the fishing has started to write itself. I wrapped up this week with Chad and then Bob on the following day. The goal here was just a catch different species. Chad and Nathan had some opportunities to hook snook, but the snook were playing tough to get as they would blow up on the plug and miss but eventually we caught lady fish and jacks which were always a blast on top water. I end this report with Bob and we were flyfishing. There were no bonefish for the first half hour of our abbreviated half day charter so being pressed for time we fished another area for jacks and ladyfish but these wise guys seem to stay just far enough out of casting range where we couldn't present a fly to them. Thankfully, the wind has laid down, the weather has improved and my hope is that it will be smooth sailing from now on with perfect weather conditions and great fishing.

Capt.  Mo Estevez 

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End of October Report, 10/17-31, 2024

It's been a good month with excellent fishing and then a nice long vacation before my season gets cranking and I have no time off.  So far this second half of the month there have been small tarpon willing to eat flies, bonefishing has been pretty good and snook have been around but thought o entice out of the mangroves.  This month we've had big king tides which are tides much higher than normal.  This has caused the snook to push up into the mangroves much deeper than normal where we can't reach them.  Even the low tides haven't been that low making snook fishing tough therefore I've been bypassing snook for now.  However, there has been tons of bait out in the bay making for some really cool live chumming fishing that is hard to pass up.  Here are some pics of the last couple of weeks.  November is one of my favorite months so expect some great reports and pics this coming month.  Happy Halloween!

Capt.  Mo Estevez 

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