Middle of June report

Time for Topwater June is normally hot, muggy, calm and buggy down in Everglades National Park. The last couple of weeks we have had some interesting weather patterns for June, lots of rain and S.W. winds. With the weather conditions changing the fish move around. The Tarpon are here one day and gone the next. The Trout fishing has been good to excellent on First National Bank there have been plenty of 2 to 3lb fish with the occasional 4lb and I heard of a six pound fish. 40 Trout in a couple hours is not unheard of. Redfishing has been consistent on Snakebite, look up on the crown of Jimmy’s Lake, if you like being alone on the flats try the Sandy Key and Carl Ross Key. There are some fish out there and very little traffic. Snook they are in all the places they are known to hang out in. The backcountry has been very good with some quality fish of up to 14lbs but lets don’t forget about the Snook on the flats out front. The June full moon proved to be productive during low light hours as Robbie Walker found out, using lures (Rebel Jumping Minnow) very early. During the middle of the day, live and dead finger mullet work great. During the full moon I have found that some Snook will not look at a lure during the daylight hours, try a freshly squashed finger mullet they cannot resist it. This brings out the scavenger in them don’t be surprised what else come along, Tarpon and Big Reds are just a couple. The Tarpon have been hit or miss one day they are here and then the winds switches and the leave. I am waiting for the summer Tarpon that aren’t to far away. These Tarpon give themselves away by free jumping in the basins. They normally show up mid June thru September. They are easy to spot on calm muggy days In they recent weeks the Sharks have been out in force, Bulls, Blacktips and Spinner Sharks always fun and very tough on light tackle. The evening Tarpon are active in Government Cut north to Haulover The spawning Snook will targets in the cut as well for the next couple of months. The South Biscayne Bay flats are red hot with Permit. I just got back from Bimini. I fished with Alex owner of Fast train on his 53 Viking. Along for the maiden trip to the Bahamas was his son Chris, Jim Prince and Eric Castillo. We fished the Mutton snapper spawn one night and then headed north for the next few days. We caught plenty of Muttons and Grouper up to 15. The Yellowtail bite was strong all thru the night and into the early morning. We did a lot of deep jigging over the reefs, this produced Groupers, Muttons, A.J’s, and Yellowtails, some fish we couldn’t stop. This is all light tackle jigging with about 2 –3 ounce jigs with big paddle tail glowworms. Most people don’t jig much over there they choose to live bait, but the jigging is how we found good bottom to anchor on and then use bait. I’ll be back to Flamingo this week. Fishing is as hot as the weather. Snook are bitin, lets go catchin! Capt. Jimbo Select another page || Go to Home Page

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