March 31, 2014 Report

Today I had Dave and Nick from South Africa. Dave is one of the members of very cool electronic band Goldfish www.GoldfishLive.com and was down in Miami playing at Ultra. This is the second year we fish together and it is always a lot of fun. We started looking for tarpon and finally found some cruising and rolling fish. Nick and Dave took a bunch of shots at these fish and we got two to eat Unfortunately, we missed the hook set on both. Since it was windy and overcast, we had to forgo Dave's desire to look for bonefish and instead wanted to pursue seatrout as we did last year. Nick and Dave caught trout, some on fly but the highlight was the tarpon we hooked. I had mentioned to them there had been tarpon holding on this flat and sure enough Dave hooks a 90lber and gets one amazing jump out of him. After that, it was a tug of war for 15 minutes until the fish beat us to some barnacle encrusted stakes and cut us off. Wow, that hurts! Capt. Mo Estevez www.MiamiBoneFishing.com