January 19, 2014 AM and PM Report

AM Report Ryan and Danny from Canada were aboard this morning for a full day of fishing armed with flyrods and we faced a second straight day of brutally cold 43 degree air temperatures. As we idled out of the marina there was steam rising off the water. Water temperatures in the bay were a freezing 59 degrees at 7:30AM so the plan was to find warmer water. We fished finger channels and creeks and caught snappers on bait and fly and saw one school of bones on the oceanside but they saw us and were on heightened alert. Moving in to a creek I've been finding snook and tarpon, barracuda were the dominant species and we caught barracuda on fly. PM Report In the afternoon Corey, Debbie, Evelyn and their dog Riley joined me to share with Evelyn the flats fishing experience and conditions could not have been better. The winds we had all day on my earlier trip laid down and it became slick calm. With the end of the outgoing tide and slick calm conditions we headed oceanside for some bonefishing. The slow fishing that plagued the bay the last few days reveresed for us. As I started to pole we found a half dozen schools of waking and tailing bonefish including two schools that came right at us but ignored perfectly placed casts! Geeze! As the sun began to set we moved to the now crystal clear finger channels. We could see BIG mangroves and huge schools of snapper right under the boat that refused to bite. We did manage landing some of them but they certainly were there. Capt. Mo Estevez www.MiamiBoneFishing.com