Incredible two trips today January 30, 2021

 Two trips today with completely different goals which illustrates the need to stay flexible and ready as a guide in Miami.  My morning trip was with Eric and his father in law Jim and Eric wanted to try bonefishing.  Jim on the other hand wanted to relax and hang out plus of course catch a fish.  With the wind building as the minutes went by I took them to a spot where the tide was perfect and got to work.  Ha, it didn't take long as Eric hooks up and the fish is running so hard and fast into the wind I had to crank up the motor and follow it.  When the fight was over a 12lb bonefish was in the landing net recovering before we took pictures of this beautiful fish.  Wow, what a start!   After release Eric tells Jim "your turn next." and it wasn't long until indeed Jim was on to another solid fish!  This time I didn't have to give chase but it smoked the drag and then a 10lb bonefish was safely in the landing net.  Geeze!  We wrapped it up and fished other spots to get away from the increasing wind.  

My afternoon trip was with regular client David and Nicole from N.Y.  I had plans for snook and general crazy fish catching action but David wanted sharks.  No problem, we caught bait and hit the flats.  We saw one shark, a massive lemon that came by the boat, turned on the scent and ate one of the baits and the craziness was on!  A long tough fight later the 200lb lemon was next to the boat and released.  We hooked another big lemon but it broke off and finished the day hooking a massive nurse shark that spit the hook.  

Capt. Mo Estevez

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These are the best trips January 29, 2021

 Father son trips are the best, especially when they are out to have a good time.  Juan and his 15 year old son Juan are from Argentina and really great people.  Juan wanted to make sure his son caught "something" and have some fun.  Well, I idled close to the marina and baited them up.  They cast, the rods bent and it was like that for four hours!  Along the way they caught a ton of ladyfish, jacks, blue runners and we had some shots at tarpon.  They both decided to rest sore arms a few times so we kicked back and had good conversations.  When we were done I idled back to the marina and called it a day.  What a cool trip!

Capt. Mo Estevez

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First timers get it done! January 28, 2021

 Very cool trip today with Dylan and his dad Dan who were down from Wisconsin on a guys only trip to Miami.  Dylan booked me at the last minute and the weather was awesome!  All we did was fish one spot and never left.  The guys caught snook, grouper, jacks, snapper and a few other species I can't recall (am I getting old?).  The largest snook of the morning was in the landing net and then made one last run and the hook came free.  As we fished I noticed some tarpon rolling so we spent the last 20 minutes tarpon fishing but didn't hook one.  I had scanned them on my Raymarine side scanner and had them dialed in but they were being tarpon and ignored crabs and big live shrimp.  In the end, the guys killed it! 

Capt. Mo Estevez

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So many missed opportunities January 26, 2021

 My charter for today had to reschedule and Kivi had been texting me about going out so I let him know I became available and he was at the boat ramp within the hour.  We tried bonefishing for less than an hour but that didn't work out so them we focused on catching fish.  Kivi caught fish, plenty of them but we lost all the big ones.  Using lures and live shrimp we lost big mutton snappers, grouper, big mystery snappers, big yellow jacks and a number of other heart breaks.  It was nice day that could have been spectacular if we could keep one of the big fish on.  Yes, I checked all the hooks and they were fine.  Geez! 

Capt. Mo Estevez

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The trio was on! January 25, 2021

 I had Dovi and his two boys today to bend some rods and get some fishing in before they headed back to N.Y.  I took them to a spot that has been producing and that was slow so we fished the finger channels where the guys caught plenty of fish and Ravael proved to be the hero of the day at 12 years old.  They caught a bunch of species and wore through my 150 baits just in time to call it a day.  They caught a bunch of edible species using shrimp and jigs but we released them all.  

Capt. Mo Estevez

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I've experienced loss!!! January 24, 2021

 OUCH!  I had Tim and his friend on board today from TN and they wanted to go bonefishing.  Well, conditions couldn't get any better so off we went to the west side of the bay and fish the mangroves for cruising schools of bonefish.  School after school swam through and finally Tim hooks up and the reel starts to scream as the big bonefish screamed away from us.  A long run in the rod snaps back and the fish was off.  NO!!!!  Turns out the hook pulled and the shrimp was intact.  HUH?  A few more schools later Tim hooks up again and this time the hook pulled almost immediately.  WHAT?  I checked the hook aad everything was fine, except for my ego.  Eventually they wanted to catch dinner and off we went to do that.  Notice how I won't even mention how the fishing was as they kept a few fish, because I am still in shock over losing those two big bones this morning.  

Capt. Mo Estevez

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This was fun! January 23, 2021

 Today I had Amy and her husband on board for a quick 2 hour trip.  Man, were they a blast!  We laugh hard and often as they killed it keeping the rods bent and drags screaming on yellow jacks, snapper, jack crevalles, horse eye jacks, and more.  The two hours went by quick as they competed against each other with Amy definitely having the hot hand.  

Capt. Mo Estevez

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