Miami, Florida - Offshore

Have you ever heard of “Matching the Hatch”? If you are a fly fisherman from up north, it’s a term used to explain the method of matching your bait, or fly, to what the fish are eating today. In other words, if the fish are eating June Bugs today, you will have to present a fly that looks like a June Bug! So if you are fishing for Sailfish and they are eating Threadfin Herring.....do you feed them Goggle Eye? No, you feed them Threadfins! That’s what I did this past week and came up on the short end of the stick. I fished the opening of the Mini-Met tournament and came armed with what I thought was the best assortment of baits I could get. I had two dozen frisky Goggle Eye and probably five hundred live Pilchards from two to five inches long. The best baits money could buy, right.........WRONG. The entire week before, I had been catching Sailfish on Threadfin Herring. They were tearing them up! So why did I change? I don’t know...I thought I could tease them up with the Pilchards and then I would annihilate them with Gogs. Boy was I mistaken. Everyone around me had Threadfins, and they were catching Sailfish left and right, up and down. I did manage to catch one while everyone else caught two, three, and four! I am convinced, that if I had Threadfins I would have been right there in the mix of things. Don’t get me wrong, I think Goggle Eyes are great bait, but just not this weekend. The fish were eating Threadfin’s. Who knows what’s going on underneath the oceans. Obviously, Sailfish were eating Threadfins under those waves this week, and I had a preview to that the days before the weekend, but I was to stupid to see it. All I can say is open your eyes, some things can be so obvious to us while were fishing , but we get tunnel vision and refuse to let our eyes see whats really happening out there. I except the this weeks title “ Dumb Ass”... Thank You. I’ll try not to let it happen again! On Thursday nights, from 7pm to 8pm, at the Old Cutler Raw Bar, South Dixie Highway and SW 184 Street, come listen to “Fishing South Florida Style”. This is an hour long live radio show hosted by Mike Pace, Captain Rob Fordyce, Captain Marty Locke, and Captain Mark Houghtaling. Offshore and inshore fishing topics are covered during the live radio broadcast, and you can pick up a few tips from the radio hosts after the show. You can also catch the show on Thunder Country 100.3 FM.