March 17, 2016 Report

Dave is an avocado farmer from California and a great day. On our half day trip today we searched for tarpon and finding quite a few threw flies, shrimp, crabs and lures at them to no avail. Not wanting to waste time on picky fish we fished deeper with jigs and Dave caught an aquariums worth of species including grouper, snapper, trigger fish, big hog fish, big jack crevalle and a grunt. Using the live grunt as bait for spinner sharks we had one come up twice to it but not eat it. What? A few drifts and marking them on the machine I decided to use the 7lb jack Dave caught as live bait and in no time he was on! Unfortunately we got back the now headless jack but no shark. We kept using the dead jack for bait and it kept getting smaller with eat bite but the sharks would spit the bait before the hook could sink it. On one occasion we got back the chunk of jack after a bite and noticed the bite was 1/4 inch short of the hook. URGH! One of the sharks Dave hooked was about 100lbs and jumped 6 feet in the air 30' from the boat! Dave ended up hooking 7 sharks and landing zero. Lots of action with no releases. See you next year Dave!

Capt. Mo Estevez www.MiamiBoneFishing.com 786-853-1409 Follow me on Instagram @MiamiBoneFishing