January 16, 2015 AM & PM Report

AM Report Bryan and his girlfriend Amy boarded today for a half day of fly fishing. The last time we fished Bryan hooked a big tarpon on fly and caught a big shark on the flats. Today conditions were a bit different as we had a old front moving through with close to 20MPH winds and higher gusts. Tarpon spot 1 held a few tarpon but no big numbers and they wouldn't eat a fly. A couple of other tarpon spots later didn't produce any so we changed gears. At our next spot two big 300lb bull sharks were swimming close to the boat hunting for what they could find just a few few from my skiff! Nothing in the area was eating so we had to move off. I don't blame those fish. Sea trout is always a nice fish to target on fly and so we did. However, they were eating lures but not flies. Go figure! The day ended with hiding from the wind behind a key and Bryan sight casting flies to barracudas and sharks.

PM Report Steve and his dad Jim were aboard to celebrate Jim's 71st birthday. I sure wish I'll look like Jim at 71! We went back to the same spot where the bull sharks were in the morning and they were gone but everything else there was still MIA. Still hiding from the increasing wind we went fishing for sea trout and landed one, lost a few next to the boat to pulled hooks and missed a number of bites. There was one trout that ate something off the surface and it was huge! Moving off to the shark flats, we set up but no bites after 45 minutes so we moved closer to the marina as the skies were darkening. At our last spot Jim and Steve caught numerous snapper, lost a grouper and we ended the trip on a high note. Capt. Mo Estevez www.MiamiBoneFishing.com 786-853-1409