January 27, 2017 Report

On-board today was Chris, a local angler and a regular client of mine. Last time we fished about a month ago we jumped on his big Grady-White but faced 30 mile an hour winds and the fishing was absolutely brutal. Today however was a different day as he brought along his granddaughter Nicole and her friend Nick. Also we had absolutely perfect weather with light Southwest winds clear skies and the air temperature in the high sixties, absolutely gorgeous! We invested the first couple of hours of the trip looking for Tarpon and while we found some those fish refused to eat and instead of investing more time we decided to change gears and do something else. Using jigs we caught big Sheepshead, mutton Snappers, bar Jacks and a few other species and then turned our attention to Snook. The snook fishing was shut down however and there were none to be had so we drifted over a grass flat using artificial lures and caught big blue fish, barracuda, snappers and then we decided to head south. With a live well full of pilchards we fished two wrecks and that was really all we needed to do as they were solid. Using the live pilchards we caught about a dozen grouper including two really nice fish, mutton snappers, triggerfish, bar Jacks and Mangrove snappers. It was a great day with great people and I was glad Chris and I were able to redeem ourselves from the last trip! And before I forget Chris that's something very cool on the 2nd wreck. We anchored up with the wreck in sight in eight feet of water and Chris saw two nice groupers sitting on the bottom staring at us. So what did he do? He grabbed small blue Runner out of the live well put it on the hook dropped it right next to the boat and one of the groupers and inhaled it instantly and after a tough fight the grouper came aboard for a picture. So cool!

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