February 11, 2014 AM & PM Reports

Local resident and client Rob played hookie today and sat in my skiff instead of his office chair. With calm winds we went tarpon fishing off South Beach. Once again we found hundreds of tarpon getting an estimated 120lber to eat. After a 15 minute fight he broke the hook. Yes, a 4x, thick gauge circle hook! We then moved to the finger channels and caught grouper and missed a few others. Trout was next on the agenda and we caught quite a few including this monster and lost another of equal size that jumped and spit the hook plus lady fish and had three 80lb tarpon laid up next to the boat.

In the afternoon I had Mike and Brian for a relaxed afternoon of fishing and we caught trout, bluefish and jacks. Mike thought it was cool that we were catching fish while looKing at his waterfront condo. I thought that was pretty cool too. We ended the trip with a fast run back to the boat ramp in the dark.

Capt. Mo Estevez www.MiamiBoneFishing.com