September 17, 2015 Report

Chris is a local angler and last year we had fished together with his grand daughter Nicole who fought a bog tarpon for over 30 minutes. Today Nicole was on board with Chris and her sister Blue. We took advantage of the calm conditions and got into a few schools of bonefish and redfish but we didn't hook any. Switching gears I tied on some top water lures and hit the creeks for snook. Both Blue and Nicole got the hang of throwing these lures right along the mangrove shoreline and each had snook blow up on their top water lures but didn't get hooked. Yikes! As we were making our way into one of the creeks I hear a loud splash and when I look bak there was a 30 plus pound permit tailing! I poled them over, got into position and Chris made a cast but the permit had disappeared. Staying patient we stuck around and the permit popped up again but now he was about 60' away and moving towards deeper water. With the storms starting to surround us we fished a few other spots where they caught sharks, mutton snapper, yellow tail snapper, porgy, white grunts, runners and a small grouper. When the storms finally cleared we hit the flats for bones but didn't find any. I started the motor and got on plane just a few hundred feet before a significant line of showers were to hit us. The weather down here has been terrible the last week and today we were surrounded by storms and showers but never got a heavy rain on us. Capt. Mo Estevez www.MiamiBoneFishing.com 786-853-1409 Follow me on Instagram @MiamiBoneFishing