May 13, 2016 Report

Doug and his wife Rochelle had booked me almost a year ago and today was the big day. The trip started with tarpon fishing and while we found a few we couldn’t get them to eat. Changing gears we used jigs and aught a number of species and gave Rochelle a workout. Moving on to the flats Doug was sight casting big barracuda but we had the rubber hook syndrome today with ‘cudas smashing his lure but not getting hooked. Finally one did get hooked, made a run, jumped 4’ in the air and came off. Oh no! Along the way Doug had a couple of shots at bonefish but we didn’t get a hook up. Having a live bait in the well I rigged it up on some wire and tossed it to a group of 6 ‘cudas. They rushed the bait, encircled it and watched it. What the heck is up? A nice lemon shark saw the bait, elbowed the ‘cudas out of the way and gobbled it up. Once it felt the sting of the hook it made a 75 yard blazing run and after a nice fight Doug got his shark. Very cool!

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