Fishing Report for Miami, Florida

Bimini Blast! What an appropriate description of the past 10 days. We started out with the Dusky Owners Bimini Blast. This was 14 Dusky owners and their boats having a ball at Bimini Beach Club. There was a 40 pound wahoo, a couple sailfish, a 27 pound king mackerel and loads of yellowtail snapper, barracuda, jacks, sharks and yelloweye snapper caught. The beach parties and evening events almost overshadowed the fishing with their great participants and dining treats. Just prior to this event we caught a 10 pound cero mackerel, a 70 pound amberjack, 12 pound grouper, a couple 100 pound sharks and all the normal snappers etc. During this the competition of the Dusky Bimini Blast we got so many fish 3 days in a row, that my anglers would have to stop fishing to recover the use of their hands. These fish were a mixture of snapper, grouper, jacks, sharks and barracuda. On the last day we made our move as our team “The Mercury Fishing Team” caught a 40 pound black grouper on a live yellowtail. This event was an absolute HOOT. Don’t miss it if you ever get the chance. When the Dusky owners headed home on Sunday, I moved over to North Bimini and hooked up with my good friends Scott and Mike. We fished the shallow wrecks around Bimini for 3 days. Scott and Mike had a 40 pound amberjack on 10 pound spin, a couple african pompano, loads of 10 pound horse eye jacks, yellowtail snapper, sharks, barracuda, runners and several other spiecies all on artificial lures and light spinning outfits. The last day of our stay the winds were rising faster than the sun, so we headed back across the Gulf Stream to Miami. When we were safely back to Biscayne Bay we fished live herring to catch 5 tarpon up to 65 pounds out of 8 solid strikes. I say solid strikes, because we had numerous explosions on the baits that produced herring racing across the surface away from near misses. It was a good ending to 10 days of super fishing on Bouncer’s Dusky 33.