August 22, 2015 Report

Ken is a regular client of mine from VA and is in town on vacation for a week so we headed out today with his friend Steve. Today was one of those days. Starting at first light my intent was to target permit in slick calm water and we did. Ken and Steve had over a dozen and a half shots within the span of 2 hours, it was insane! The permit were cruising on the surface, floating and tailing. If a permit does it, they were doing it! Shot after shot and no hook ups. They even had shots at a school of tailing permit, laid the cast out perfectly and waited. The school moves over the live crab and they spook when 99% of the times that scenario results in a hook up. When the permit fishing slowed we got into several schools of tailing redfish and still perfect casts were ignored. Moving on and licking our wounds we shifted to bonefish and small sharks moved in instead. Finally we targeted big mutton snapper and Steve hooks up to a nice 8-10 lb mutton that I saw eat on the surface. After a nice fight and several screaming runs later the fish is close to the boat and spits the hook! Really? Sometimes you just have to shake your head. Capt. Mo Estevez www.MiamiBoneFishing.com 786-853-1409 Follow me on Instagram @MiamiBoneFishing