Four Incredible Days October 24-27, 2022

Look, I'm a fishing guide and we are know to stretch the truth at times, or a lot but this report is no exaggeration.  Chris fished with me last year and he brought his son Brian this year for four days of fishing.  The goal was for them to catch barracudas on lures and mix in some other stuff.  Well, we had high water the whole week thanks to a combination of spring tides and king tides so that made the snook fishing slow and limited us on some barracuda spots.  BUT, no problem.  Over the four days we fished we spent most of our time looking for barracuda and caught plenty with a few really nice ones mixed in which were the size we were looking for.  Again, BUT we would sneak off and do something else for a couple of hours each day and it paid off.  Most of the time we bonefished and it was incredible.  We spent approximately 4-5 hours bonefishing over the course of four days and landed 27 bonefish.  We got 1 on the first day, 15 on the second day and 11 on the third day.  WOW!  We also mixed in fishing mullet muds where we hooked and lost two tarpon and landed jacks through the four days.  As for me, highlight number one was spending time with these guys and a very closed second, or 1b was 27 bonefish.  Nice!  

Capt. Mo Estevez

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WHAT????? October 16, 2022

Bonefishing in general this year has been off the charts and this fall has been breath takingly good but today, oh today!  Local angler Lucas booked for a bonefish trip and that is what we did, pretty much.  The first spot was slow but the second was on fire.  Dealing a stiff 18 MPH wind we did what we could and it was fish after fish for Lucas as he caught his first bonefish and then 11 others after that!  12 for 14 on bonefish!  We ended the trip trying to catch snook but Lucas had a blast catching jacks and barracudas that were in the creeks instead of the snook.  Wow, what a day! 

Capt. Mo Estevez

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Spectacular Day! October 14, 2022

I had Alec on board today and he is a long time client and friend who told me "You decide what we are fishing for."  Great!  First stop was snook, drew a blank but loaded up on live pilchards.  Then we hit a channel and live chummed the daylights with the live pilchards and had huge mutton snappers going crazy destroying the baits.  I told Alec to wait to see them exploding, then cast his live bait into them.  When he would he was on within seconds landing 2 solid muttons in the 15-12lb range, losing another solid fish and landing a few other small ones.  Once that was over with we hit a creek for snook and lost two snook.  Ouch.  We wrapped up the day by hooking 6 bonefish and landing 5.  Dang this was a good day!!!!

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Meet the Robertson's October 12/13, 2022

This family was great!  

Day one was Jason and his 11 year old son Jensen.  We started off fishing for snook and taking advantage of great fall conditions and tons of bait.  Throwing top water lures Jensen got his first two snook, what a start!  We moved off to a ship wreck so he can have more fun and then wrapped it up bonefishing where Jason and Jensen hooked four and landed three.  Dang!

Day two was Jason with his two other sons, 8 year old Ryder and 14 year old Royce.  The snook fishing was terrible today with few schools of bait moving through and being largely ignored by predators.  Bonefising was also slow so with the boys about to mutiny we hot the wrecks.  It didn't take long for them to catching 25 fish in order to "beat Jensen".  With the boys satisfied it was time to please dad.  We set up for bonefish and quickly went 1-3 before it was time to call it a day and being run off by a storm.  

Great work guys!  

Capt. Mo Estevez

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Birthday Bonefish October 10, 2022

Jim and his son in law Arturo were scheduled to fish with me yesterday but we had some nasty weather all day yesterday so we rescheduled for today.  That was a smart move as the day was gorgeous today.  The fishing, well that was a different story.  We started off fishing for snook, a slight detour from the intended target of bonefish, since it was tough to pass up snook crushing schools of mullet all around us.  We threw lures and live mullet and couldn't buy a bite.  Many times with so much bait around it's tough to have locate your one offering in the middle of thousands of other baits.  Ok, no worries we move on to bonefish where it was also pretty slow but eventually we found some fish and Jim hooked up only to lose the bonefish at the boat.  A while later Arturo also hooks up and the fish also comes off near the boat.  This is getting frustrating!  Ok, new spot and we draw a zero.  Last spot and Arturo quickly hooks two fish and they both come off next to the boat plus he got a couple of bites that never got hooked.  Dang it!  Well, with minutes left before we head in Jim hooks up and lands his first bonefish for his birthday.  Whew!  A bit later we called it a day going 1 for 5 on bonefish.  It was a tough day but I'm not complaining! 

Capt. Mo Estevez

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Two Firsts October 8, 2022

I was off today until Lucas called me up and wanted to book Saturday morning with his dad.  Ok, cool.  Jason and Lucas met me at the ramp at 7am and we were off to look for snook and bonefish.  We're still dealing with a king tide that is pushing tides about 2' above normal so I wasn't going to give snook a bunch of time since with the high water they were probably way deep into the mangroves.  Well, what do I know.  There was a ton of mullet and pilchards swimming through the creek we fished courtesy of the mullet run and therefore the snook were staying just a bit further out.  We could see them crushing bait and cartwheeling out of the water but with so much bait it was tough to get them to eat a lure.  We finally got and missed a couple of hits and on our way out to a bonefish spot Jason hooked and landed his first snook.  Once at the bonefish spot it was slower than it has been, although it has been stupid good, but eventually we got a couple of hit and Jason lost one two feet from the boat before I could land it.  Then Lucas hooked and landed his first bonefish and the mission was accomplished since Jason had never caught a snook and Lucas had never caught a bonefish.  This is Biscayne Bay silver and gold!  

Capt. Mo Estevez

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Crushed Redemption October 2, 2022

Remember my last trip yesterday?  Well, this one was similar.  See, today I had Mark from D.C. and the last time we fished we targeted bonefish, tarpon, permit and we drew a blank.  I kind of had forgotten about that until Mark reminded me.  Ouch! :)  Anyway, we headed off to hunt permit and bonefish.  It was glass calm, nice and cool but with storms all around us so we got to work.  I only saw two schools of permit after about an hour so we changed it up and went bonefishing.  This is when everything changed.  On the first cast Mark hooks and lands a 6lb bonefish.  Whew!!!  Pressure is off!  But then we loose four consecutive bonefish and it's so frustrating.  Ha, but then the we righted the ship and Mark ended up going 6 for 10 on bonefish!  Dang Mark!  We wrapped it up throwing lures at snook without success.  Ok, I fell better now.  

Capt. Mo Estevez

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Finally got it done October 1, 2022

I can't start this report without mentioning how close we came in Miami to be clobbered by hurricane Ian and how I've been praying for the poor people in Florida's gulf coast, northeast Florida and the folks in S.C.  At this time there are still clients and friends that live in Naples that I have not been able to reach and I'm becoming worried.  Lord help them.  

On to the report.  I had Fax back on the boat today.  Last and first time we fished we found a bunch of finicky bonefish and didn't land any.  Today we had slightly less than ideal conditions that seemed to both improve and worsen, if that makes any sense.  Anyway, fishing started slow with plenty of spots on the west side of the bay too fresh to fish but a few bonefish popped up along the way.  I ran oceanside and there Fax was able to land his first bonefish and we missed a few more bites.  Moving back to the west side we were able to upgrade his bonefish from a 6lber to a 9lber.  Nice job Fax.  There were no shrimp in the bait shops due to the storm but I had live blue crabs and the nickel sized blue crabs saved the day.  

  

Capt. Mo Estevez

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