Capt. Mo's Fishing Clinic Event 11/16/13

Today I conducted a family fishing clinic with the express purpose of providing families with the tools and techniques needed to go fishing with the best chance of immediate success. Some of the topics I spoke about were: -tying fail proof knots -casting like a pro -10 things a successful angler needs to know -fishing rules and regulations And more. After our clinic we hit the canal and the rods were bent often by peacock bass that ate our lures and live shiners. I had a great time and my hope is that a better and deeper relationship is formed amongst families. Capt. Mo Estevez www.MiamiBonefishing.com

November 12, 2013

Days like these make you work harder than usual. We had nice conditions today, nice current/tide, good visibility with some occasional cloud cover and lots of live pilchards and shrimp along with chum. It's November in Miami and the fishing has been great. Today however, it came to a crawl. Hitting a few of my favorite spots for mutton snappers and grouper drew blanks. Finally, towards the end of our trip I employed a trip and true method to dredge up over sized muttons and it didn't fail. However, we had three hits and one hook up, a solid hook up that had the reel screaming and the rod with a deep bend. Unfortunately, the hook pulled and our hearts were broken. We did catch fish but not the over sized trophies we were looking for. Capt. Mo Estevez www.MiamiBoneFishing.com

November 8, 2013 Report

Twenty mile an hour north east winds, dark skies and rain awaited us this morning as I did my best to ensure John, Adam and Mark caught plenty of fish. We were chased around a bit by a few rain storms eventually ending up anchored under a bridge in order to keep dry. Along the way we caught trout but our hook up to bite ratio needed to improve due largely to short striking fish. Once the rain cleared and the tide began to flow in full force things began to change for us. We hooked a number of mackerel on live pilchards, including a smoker, and lost a larger share to short strikes and spit hooks. The trout fishing also improved and we ended up landing quite a few trout including this BIG 24” dinosaur of a trout landed by Mark. There were pilchards at the boat ramp at Key Biscayne today as well as along the Bear Cut bridge at the edge of the flat. Mullet are still thick along the grass flats with mackerel, trout, bluefish and more chasing them around. Our trout were hitting plastic shrimp under corks and the mackerel were eating primarily live pilchards but would occasionally hit our plastic shrimp. Water temperatures are 78 degrees right now, just perfect! Capt. Mo Estevez www.MiamiBonefishing.com

October 30, 2013 Report

On board today was Chris and Mark and I must say, they were hilarious! We had a great time on the water in spite of the 20 MPH winds that increased to about 30 MPH in the afternoon. In order to stay out of the wind we fished the small channels that cut through the flats and caught BIG mangrove snappers on live pilchards along with numerous cut offs from mackerel and some missed hook sets from short striking big but not aggressive fish. After eating lunch at a local waterfront restaurant we snook fished for a bit but only jacks were feeding, the 12lb snook would cruise by us with no desire to eat the live pilchards we tossed. The day ended next to a seawall where there were some tarpon rolling and where we could hide from the wind. The tarpon didn't eat but tossing live pilchards along the seawall produced some snook like explosions. After a few tries we finally hooked up. After a long fight we boated a big jack. Although a nice fight, we were dissapointed it wasn't the big snook we were sure of. I'll be back out for that snook! Capt. Mo Estevez www.MiamiBonefishing.com

October 26, 2013 Report

A cold front swept over us the day before and the temperatures dropped a nice 10 degrees but the winds today were a steady 20 MPH out of the north east. Although the fishing slowed considerably today, Ron and Brian from Houston caught a number of trout, snapper, as well as jacks and a couple of barracuda on our half day trip. Hiding from the wind was a challenge but we managed to make it a comfortable morning. The mackerel are starting to move inside the bay as we had one cut Ron's plastic shrimp in half and we saw another swim by the boat. We did try spoons and lures but no macks were hooked. Capt. Mo Estevez www.MiamiBonefishing.com

October 20, 2013 Report

Back on the water again with the same goal, catch fish and keep some for dinner was what Tyler and Randy had in mind. We started fishing around the Key Biscayne area and caught plenty of trout on the two different flats we fished. With the muscles warmed up, we headed south to the finger channels to fatten up the cooler. The first channel didn't produce much in the way of nice fish so we headed even further south and didn't have to move from there. The rods were bent often and it was a treat for Randy and Tyler to witness a cloud of snappers behind the boat where they could sight cast to large individual snappers and get a thrill out of watching them eat their baits. With a nice amount of fish for the dinner table we called it a day and headed in. The mackerel are starting to show just offshore of South Beach and Key Biscayne and I look forward to getting into them as soon as it is calm enough. Capt. Mo Estevez www.MiamiBonefishing.com

October 19, 2013 Report

On board today was Henry and his son Jack from Broward. We had fished together a few years ago and they had caught bonefish but today they wanted to catch a few fish for dinner. We started by catching trout in the early morning with the first trout coming on the first cast! We had a few double headers on trout and it was fun watching Henry cast to the same spot where Jack had gotten a strike not 30 seconds before. We moved to the finger channels where they tag teamed to land this BIG black grouper on 10lb tackle. Shortly after it was time to head back to the ramp and what a way to end the day!