August 9, 2016 Report

Jumping on board today was Bill Hayes who is one of the coaches for the San Francisco Giants baseball team. They were in town for a three-game stretch against the Miami Marlins and in keeping with tradition Bill and I headed out for a day of fishing. We got some bait and started tarpon fishing where we found quite a few but didn't land any. Bill had never caught a barracuda so that was on the list but before that we stopped off at another spot. At our second spot our baits got destroyed almost immediately with Bill landing a few big jacks, watching small bull shark destroy a big snapper he had next to the boat and having a big hundred pound tarpon take a whack at his big miss and then stare at his bait for 15 seconds just 20 feet from the boat. Pretty amazing sight! Running down to the flats I found a bunch of barracudas but they were very finicky this morning. But patience and hard work paid off and we finally hooked a nice Barracuda that gave Bill a nice fight and some high-flying jumps. We had a little bit of time left before calling it a day and we did some shark fishing but nothing came into our baits so Bill decided to call it early and try to get some rest before their game.

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

August 8, 2016 Report

Kevin lives in Utah and usually fishes with his brother Alec who is a local angler and a regular client of mine. The goal for Kevin today was sharks and barracudas since he was bringing his future son-in-law Jeremy aboard and Jeremy had never fished in salt water before. Pretty early on in our charter after catching bait, Jeremy hooks up to a nice lemon shark and after about 20 minute fight releases his first saltwater fish about a hundred pound lemon. We had good action throughout the day with Jeremy hooking up another shark and losing it, Kevin releasing a big 6 foot lemon shark and we also hooked 4 barracudas landing the smallest of the four. Welcome to saltwater fishing Jeremy!

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

August 7, 2016 Report

Jeff fished with me a few weeks ago. Today his dad joined him for a full day of bone fishing and permit fishing. We had great conditions but the fishing proved to be slow. We found very few Bonefish but hand some nice tarpon cruising down the slick calm shorelines but we could never get a really good shot at them. Capt. Mo Estevez 786-853-1409 www.MiamiBoneFishing.com Follow me on Instagram @MiamiBoneFishing

August 6, 2016 Report

This morning Eric join me for a half-day trip in the morning. It was absolutely my pleasure to spend my morning with Eric as he served 27 years in the Navy as part of a bomb disposal unit.  The fishing started slow with snook or tarpon on the hook but we did lose a tarpon when he destroyed our bait but didn't get hooked. We fished a number of different spots catching sea trout and some nice jacks.  At the end of the day at another spot Eric hooked a nice snook and lost it next to the boat as the fish struggled against the pressure Eric was putting on him. Capt. Mo Estevez 786-853-1409 www.MiamiBoneFishing.com Follow me on Instagram @MiamiBoneFishing

August 5, 2016 AM & PM Report (Tarpon Video!)

AM Report Frank is a school teacher from PA and while his wife was at a conference he hit the water for an abbreviated trip. Spot one was the magical one with rolling tarpon and an almost immediate hook up. After a number of jumps and a dogged fight, Frank got his first tarpon. Awesome! We hit a second spot where Frank caught a few nice jacks and we called it a day.

PM Report My second trip was with Fernando, Gimmie and Andre from Brazil. These guys were a lot of fun and wanted to catch a shark. Hitting the flats, almost immediately we were surrounded by sharks but they were playing hard to get. The guys hooked a total of about 5-6 sharks and landed two. As we moved off the flat a school of big bar jacks moved in and we hook up immediately to about a 15lber. With the fish next to the boat and ready for a picture and release it comes off. Losing two big barracudas later it was time to head back. What a nice day today and a day of missed fish but the drags kept singing and the smiles were plentiful.

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

August 3, 2016 Report

I love fishing with kids and today was one of those days. Marc and his 2 boys 20 year old Alex and 13 year old Wyatt jumped aboard for a half day of fishing in order to celebrate Wyatt's 13th birthday today. We fished two spots and at the first spot Alex landed a cool black tip shark and although there were plenty of Tarpon around we could not get a bite. We moved on to the second and last spot of the day where immediately Wyatt hooked a 60 pound Tarpon that burned up the drag and gave him an awesome jump just 30 feet from the boat. Unfortunately the jump resulted in a pulled hook and the tarpon swam free. However, in order to make up for that Wyatt caught two big jacks that gave him quite a workout and we got a few more bites from fish that were too clever to get hooked. Happy birthday Wyatt!

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

August 1, 2016 Report

Today was definitely a tough day as local offshore angler Carlos jumped aboard for a half-day of scouting out this part of the bay that he wants to take his girlfriend fishing to. We had a steady 15 to 20 mile-an-hour wind and he really wanted to see how my Hewes would perform under these conditions as well as to check out the fishery but today were definitely not the conditions we needed to show him exactly what this part of Biscayne Bay is all about. We began early morning under overcast skies fishing some creeks for Snook on topwater plugs. The snook were there as we had 5 or 6 of them blow up on our top waters but never got hooked. Finally we had a big blow up and hook up but unfortunately it only lasted a few seconds before it shook free and swim away. The rest of the two and a half hours we spent fishing different spots for species like sea trout and snapper but the fishing was extremely slow as the water started to get dirty andn the wind continued to increase. Capt. Mo Estevez www.MiamiBoneFishing.com 786-853-1409 Follow me on Instagram @MiamiBoneFishing