Fresh Homestead Fishing Reports

August is fairly slow this time of year in South Florida. Most of the people are on vacation up north and the fishery tends to get little pressure. The days are usually hot and rainy but cloud cover and wind usually balances that out. The fish seem to enjoy the lack of pressure and can be found in places not normally seen during the cooler winter months. I am convinced the fishing is better in the summer months. This August I've found a few new Goliath Grouper spots and also some new redfish areas. The big snook have been further offshore than usual due to the high water temperatures but are still coming in to spawn on the full and new moons.

Got to fish with Piper and Christian on their honeymoon. Piper hooked into a nice tarpon and after a 15 min fight got to take pictures with it on the beach. She said it was the best day of her life 2nd to getting married. Moments like this remind why I do what I do. We also caught a number of snook jacks and ladyfish and landed a nice lemon shark.

Another solid day of fishing in the glades. Seeing hundreds of tarpon. These dudes wore out the snook today! Some tricky fish at first then they just started eating everything! Looking forward to this tarpon season but even if we aren’t targeting tarpon the fishign for other species is just insane right now and will continue to get better and better!

Lots of good days fishing. The warmer the weather gets it seems like the bite increases as well. I have a few open days. Message me for more details.

Low winds, high sun, no expectations and a handful of jigs and flies. End of the day count was 14 bonefish on jigs 5 tarpon jumped 2 landed all on fly 1snook on fly and countless ladyfish, grunts, snapper, jacks, cuda, houndfish on the jigs. One for the recordbooks I have never caught that many bonefish in one day. My previous record was 11.

I met Ian and Karen at the Ernest F. Coe Visitor Center at 5:45am before having them follow me down the long road to Flamingo. Once we arrived we got the boat in the water it was off to the first spot as the sun was just starting to come up. The tide was super low in the morning and still falling so the water was very muddy and made conditions pretty difficult. All we caught were a few catfish after visiting 6 different spots. We did get to see a large Crocodile sunbathing on the beach which was pretty cool. Finally around 10:30am we decided to turn around and try a spot we had tried right at the beginning and the bite was on there! We caught 6 slot sized snook (28"-33") and Karen caught her first Snook ever! After that we headed to the beach to eat lunch where I cooked up some asparagus, mushrooms and fish. After lunch we tangled with a few big sharks. One of them being a 7-8ft spinner shark that absolutely handed it to us. We ended up losing him but we did end up landing a nice Lemon Shark. Overall a great day out in the park.