What's up everyone? It's been a busy month so far so here is a catch up report of what's been going on in Miami/Biscayne Bay. The first week of May started the way the April ended, on fire! Joel and Paul were with me for the last day of our trip and we got into some super shallow, super calm big tailing bonefish action that had us going 3 for 4 on these big fish and had plenty more shots. This was after fishing the finger channels and having a blast catching a variety of snappers and jacks in order to mix things up. The following day I had Mark on board and we did well on bonefish again, in really calm conditions which is typical of May in Miami. After a few days off and a mini well needed vacation I was back on the water with Brett and Kris out of the Ocean Reef Club in Key Largo. these guys were great and a ton of fun to fish with. They caught a bunch of jacks, sight fished a few lemon sharks and we wrapped it up hooking 7 bonefish and landing 6. What a day! The following day I fleshed with Wes and he wanted to focus on snook since they don't have snook in Texas. We got an early 6AM start and tossed top water lures for snook. They were there and he caught a few nice fish before the trip ended at 10AM.
The next day I fished with local client Barry and we focused on snook (who were MIA...go figure!) so we turned out attention to bonefish. The flats were dead but at a certain point in the tide the bonefish went crazy and a school of about 100 fish were mudding. It was an easy shot and Barry capitalized by landing a bonefish out of the school and ending what would have been a skunk trip.
With a slow down in fishing I was concerned taking Neil and his wife out in the morning for bonefish but it worked out and there were plenty of smaller fish around and Neil was able to land his first bonefish. The afternoon trip was with long time client Austin and it was a dud, the fishing was dead and only a few blow ups from snook on top water.
Saturday found me fishing with Abe armed with a fly rod for bonefish. Once again the fishing was a bit slow for bonefish so we turned out attention to permit and found one mudding and then several singles and doubles. Abe had some shots but permit are permit. At the right time in the tide I took him where I took Barry a few days prior and the bones were there like clock work. A nice long accurate cast into a school of 100 bonefish and it took seconds for Abe to hook up and landing his first Biscayne Bay bonefish. It turned out to be a nice day.
The balance of my trips through the 14 were mainly trips to just catch anything and we did just that but the yellow jacks weren't around in the big numbers they have been but snappers filled the void.
The last four trips consisted of three with Chris and his friend Brian as we chased bonefish on fly and the last trip of this report was with Josh, Arman and Aria, all regular clients of mine. Josh and the crew took home some fresh fish dinner and Chris and Brian did well on bonefish. For three days we chased bonefish on spin and fly and we caught bones on every trip. Day one Brian landed one on spin, day two Chris landed two on fly and two on spin and the lat day was a half day which was epic is the calm conditions with tailing bonefish everywhere and we went 1 for three in the first hour. Man was that fun!
Capt. Mo Estevez
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