Thanksgiving Day November 25, 2021

I was hoping to take Thanksgiving day off and work the day before BUT my two charters for Wednesday cancelled, one due to weather and the other due to illness so I ended up working today.  On the brightside I got to fish with Scot and his family again on a two boat trip.  I had the "kids" and the other boat had Scot and his wife and we stayed next to each other during the trip.  The kids were a blast and they caught tons of snapper, yellow jacks and lost a few really nice fish, all the while giving each other a hard time.  If I have to work on Thanksgiving day, these are the folks to fish with.  Happy Thanksgiving! 

Capt. Mo Estevez

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Two Days on the Fly November 22/23, 2021

 I had the pleasure of fishing with David for two days for his first time fishing in Miami/Biscayne Bay.  Since we had two days to work with we mixed it up.  On the first day we had perfect November conditions with clear skies, cool weather and almost no wind.  On our first day David missed a bonefish eat and then the snook got nasty and he lost three snook on fly through no fault of his own.  As the king tide came up and filled the bay with about 3 feet of extra water I changed it up, caught live bait, pilchards, and hit some wrecks.  Oh man!  The live chum worked as it should and David was catching fish on every cast, mainly hard fighting yellow jacks.  Staying too far away were massive mutton snappers crushing the live chum, some of the biggest I've ever seen in the bay! 

Day two was the opposite witht he wind howling 20-25 MPH we hid in creeks and in the leeward side of points fishing for bonefish and snook and while we had some takes it was a tough day.  

Capt. Mo Estevez

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The snapper charter November 21, 2021

 I was with Kevin today and the last time Kevin and I fished it was an epic day.  Today, not so much.  fishing was generally slow with no help from the weather.  While November is our best weather month, we've had tons of wind, rain and overall tough conditions.  Today wasn't horrible though but the fishing definitely needed some help.  It seemed like the snook and bonefish were MIA and in their place were mangrove snappers and jacks and while they're fun it was not what we were looking for.  

Capt. Mo Estevez

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Time for a 12 year old to retire November 20, 2021

Just imagine being in your 40's or 50's and talking to someone about how you've been bonefishing a bunch of times but never caught any bonefish and how's it's been a bucket list fish for years.  Now imagine while you're having this conversation a 12 year old overhears your conversation and innocently chimes in with "Oh, I've caught bonefish before, two big ones two while it was windy and rainy.  It was fun."  Now meet 12 year old Ford from GA and his dad Matt, two great people who were here to watch the Miami Hurricanes play Virginia Tech and the weather was not in their favor.  Yes, it was blowing 20-25 MPH and it was rainy and we got rained on several times.  But, they both caught bonefish including Matt's first and a solid 12 pound bonefish at that.  Wow, these guys really killed it.  We had to head back to the marina to wait out a nasty cell that was moving through and afterwards we hit another spot for other species but we didn't produce anything in the last 20 minutes we had in the trip.  

Capt. Mo Estevez

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Never saw this coming November 15, 2021

Fishing has been on fire regardless of weather conditions, moon phase, air temperatures, whatever, it hasn't mattered so I was excited to get back to work today with Vic and Billy from Boca Raton, FL.  We had great weather although a bit breezy causing us to meet up at Key Biscayne instead of Homestead.  With plenty of big live shrimp I was ready for some snook and bonefish but wow that was not what we got.  I fished these guys all over creation and not a snook or bonefish came to the boat.  I switched off to other species and negative.  Then I finally got them on nice jacks but that was not their cup of tea.  Hmm, a few more spots that were dead before we headed in but Vic got a nice flounder before the trip ended.  This was quite a surprise since we don't have many flounder in Biscayne Bay.  Time to lick my wounds on the way home.  

Capt. Mo Estevez

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Father and son killed it November 14, 2021

 Greg and Mitch joined me today after having to cancel last year due to Covid.  Finally back in the boat we headed off to look for bait and while they were MIA again we did have some shots at the rare Biscayne Bay redfish and Mitch caught a few jacks on lures while Greg was throwing a fly.  On to spot number two and this one was on fire at the beginning of the outgoing tide.  Here the guys caught nice jacks, snappers and snook on fly and lures.  After killing it with almost nonstop action we hit the flats where we wrapped it up with Mitch catching a nice lemon shark on light tackle.  This was a cool trip with Mitch catching his first snook and his first shark.  Way to go Mitch!

Capt. Mo Estevez

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Fall continues it's winning Streak November 13, 2021

I fish with Paul every year and so he was back again today.  Boy did I look high and low for bait but there was no bait.  Thankfully I had a back up but after checking the lsat bait spot I noticed they were holding deep in the bay, too deep for my cast net to reach them down at the bottom but I tried and caught enough to give us a shot at some nice mutton snappers and other hard fighting species.  Setting up on one of my hotspots I started to live chum a bit and the muttons showed up in full force crushing the live baits I was tossing them.  Just as things were getting good two boats set up right not to me to enjoy my hard earned action, zero courtesy.  No sir, I took off and we fish a few other spots finally getting Paul a mutton and some other species that kept the rods bend and the drags worked.  

Capt. Mo Estevez

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