Drag burners kept us BUSY! October 13, 2020

What awesome conditions this morning and we took advantage of every second.  First time fly fishing for bonefish, Adam was armed with my 8wt and his wife Meagan was cheering him on.  We had a decent number of shots in the morning and then decided to get Meagan busy bending some rods.  I located a school of pilchards, threw the cast net a few times and with the live well blacked out we hit a few spots I had a good feeling about.  Well, with a live well full of pilchards, most spots give me a good feeling.  Live chumming we had the grouper and mutton snapper going crazy with Meagan and Adam staying busy landing groupers and an assortment of species.  Twice Meagan hooked monster grouper that burned up the drag and broke her off on structure.  Then the schools of big mutton snappers would move in changing the color of the water and sky rocketing out of the water crushing the live chum.  A few well placed casts had Adam hooked up and hearing the drag sizzle.  What an awesome morning!  

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Epic Snook Fishing in the Everglades! October 11, 2020 (Video)

 I had a day off today but got a call from my friend Mike asking if I wanted to fish Flamingo this morning.  I was on the fence since I wanted a couple of days off but I couldn't say no.  Meeting at 7am and driving down together we launched by 8am and we were off to the races.  What a difference from Friday, no high winds and no dirty water but we still had a huge incoming tide and tons of water on the flats.  Well, we fished one spot and that is all we needed.  We fished less than three hours and in that time caught redfish, lost a nice tarpon and released over 25 snook!  Once the tide slackened, things cooled off and we headed home.  What a morning!  There were times our lures would get hit multiple times without a hookup and the next cast yielded a solid hook up, and at one point I made three casts and caught two snook while missing the bite on the third cast.  Yes, it was epic, yes it was awesome and yes, I want to do it again!  

Capt. Mo Estevez 

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Keith strikes again!!! October 9, 2020 (Video)

 Some guys just have that "thing" where everything seems to work out for them and Keith is one of those guys.  Day two of fishing with Chris and Keith took place in Flamingo and once again we had less than ideal conditions with high winds, dirty water and high water.  Oh, and Chris tells me he really wanted Keith to catch tarpon, snook and redfish.  Hmmm, well if you're not into being constantly challenged then guiding isn't for you.  Spot one was slow but spot two held small tarpon and we went 0-2 on tarpon.  Hitting different spots trying to find low clean water was tough but I was able to find the right combination and the guys caught redfish with Keith catching the biggest of the day.  He needs to go play the lotto! 

Capt. Mo Estevez 

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Newbie tears it up and needs to find a new hobby! October 6, 2020 Report (Video)

 Regular client Chris brought his grandson Keith along today and although Keith fishes back home for river trout, he hasn't fished in salt water before.  After a few pointers with the spinning rod and some practice casts it was all over.  He started off by catching mutton snapper on the flats and his first bonefish, dang!  Changing it up I located schools of bait and blacked out the live well with live pilchards.  We fished a few wrecks, finger channels and seawalls and the total tally for Keith was:

Bonefish

Cobia

Mutton snapper

Mangrove snapper

Bull sharks

Barracudas and

Yellow jacks 

Wow!  He's now ready to take up a new sport, this one is done with!

Capt. Mo Estevez 

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The boys are back! September 27, 2020 Report

George and his boys Evan and Patrick were back on board today and the conditions were perfect.  I caught bait before they jumped aboard and when we met up it was off to get the kids fired up.  Hitting a few spots the boys tore it up catching jacks, snappers, barracudas, african pompano and more.  After having their fill we hit the flats and they landed a few lemon sharks before calling it day.  

 Capt. Mo Estevez 

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