Sam, Sammy, Leah and Lilly boarded my skiff today. We've been fishing together for years now and the kids keep getting bigger each year. After catching a few smaller fish we hit the flats where they tore it up on sharks. It was awesome!
Capt. Mo Estevez
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Joe and Ed were in for a full day today of fly fishing for bonefish and permit. It hasn't been calm in the mornings as is typical of August so we had to do it the hard way. The first few spots were slow but we did see a few schools of bonefish moving through. Ed hooked up twice on shrimp but they turned out to be bonnet head sharks as we tried to maximize the time in spite of the nasty storm moving right towards us. As the storm cell approached I made a run to another flat and there we saw a permit but no real shot at it. Then I see a school of bonefish moving at 10 o'clock right at us. I yell out direction and distance to Joe and he makes a great cast to the school and immediately hooks up. After releasing the first bonefish of the day it got real slow for the remainder of the incoming tide. When the tide turned we fished a new favorite flat on this tide stage and we found about a half dozen schools of bonefish mudding. After a number of shots on shrimp Ed wasn't able to hook up but Joe got a quick throw of the fly and hooked a second bonefish that ended up spitting the fly.
Capt. Mo Estevez
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Today I had Steph and his boys George and Michael. These guys have been fishing with me for years and they were back. I took the boys 7 and 8 years old to a spot for them to catch snappers and they had a blast. Then they reminded me they hadn't visited the flats before so off we went to shark fish the flats. Well, that worked out! Not long after setting up we had about 12 sharks behind the boat at any given time. The process was simple, cast a bait, give it 60-90 seconds, watch them eat, fight the shark, repeat. It was awesome and the sharks were all perfect size for the boys. What a great day with these guys today.
Capt. Mo Estevez
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I'm leaving on vacation tomorrow and I was wrapping up my work week with regular local client Tom. He wanted to fish in the Everglades for redfish so off we went. This is a lure only fishery for me so we did just that and I set up on a spot I like early in the morning as the tide began to flood the area. Two casts in Tom hooks a nice snook and then repeated that numerous times this morning. At first he was skeptical of fishing lures only, especially the one I handed to him but a few fish in he admitted he was starting to become a believer. We did see a few reds mud around the boat but they must have missed seeing our lures presented to them because we never got a bite. At the end of the trip Tom had released about a dozen snook, lost a few more and missed a few more bites (which is normal when throwing lures in the area). Cool, now I get to leave on vacation on a high note.
Capt. Mo Estevez
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Capt. Mo Estevez
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786-853-1409
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Man, after yesterday I really needed redemption and Joseph was on board to try and make that happen. We fished a few years ago and had to reschedule this try three times due to weather but today was the day. We literally sat in the same area for four hours taking shots at massive numbers of bonefish until he got one. Yes! There were at least four other occasions where he made perfect casts and the bones just ignored it. But, we got one!!! We had to work hard for it but we got'em. Congrats Joseph!
Capt. Mo Estevez
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Back from vacation and no time to rest as I got in last night and here I was early morning with Jack and Tony. They wanted to try bonefishing and them change it up but there were constant storms sitting right over the other areas I wanted to take them to so we focused on bonefish. Ha, this worked out, kind of. Idling out of the channel it was calm and I see tails right next to the channel. What?! I rigged a shrimp, made a cast and Jack was on! But the fish spit the hook. The rest of the morning we found a bunch of fish and managed to get 4 more bites but the boys were off their game and missed the bites. Oh, what could have been!
Capt. Mo Estevez
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