Deerfield Beach to Key Largo
Includes Pompano Beach, Ft. Lauderdale, Miami and Homestead.

Oct. 10-12

SO

Deerfield Beach to Key Largo & Flamingo to Cape Sable

Looks like another weekend of higher winds due to a high pressure area that moved offshore after a weak front stalled over South Florida. I have always liked the fishing the week before the full moon and that takes place on the 14th so I might expect better then average fishing this weekend. Winds will be out of the east northeast at 15 to 20 miles per hour.

Pompano Beach, Port Everglades, Haulover, Government Cut to Ocean Reef

Schools of baitfish that are made up of pilchards, glass minnows, Spanish sardines, threadfin herring, silver and black mullet and finger mullet continue to move south along the beaches and into the bays throw the ocean inlets attracting lots of attention from snook, tarpon, large and small jacks, large ladyfish, bluefish, small kingfish and Spanish mackerel. Any of these species can be targeted from the beaches that allow fishing, from the piers or from the jetties of all of the Oceanside inlets. Casting the natural live baits that are available or throwing Clark spoons, Rapala X raps or Hook Up lures with a soft plastic baitfish tail like the Gulp jerk baits into the baitfish schools could mean a hook up of any of the above species. This is a good time to add a short trace of #3 copper wire to keep the toothy critters from cutting your leader. Offshore kingfish in the five to 20 pound range have been hitting from 80 to 160 feet of water and live baits, dead Spanish sardines and Butterfly jigs have been responsible for many two fish limits of kingfish that are 24 inches or longer from the fork of the tail. Further offshore a few sailfish are starting to show up along with scattered dolphins and artic bonitos and small blackfin tunas. Swordfishing remains good both day and night and at night the bottom fishing has been made up of a mixed bag of large yellowtail snappers, mutton, lane and mangrove snappers and a few legal sized red groupers, bluefish and kingfish. High tide at Government Cut Friday night will be at 5:59.

North Biscayne Bay Inshore

Large baitfish schools are attracting snook during the early mornings, late afternoons and into the evening in and around the ocean inlets. Inside North Biscayne Bay lots of bluerunners, jacks, ladyfish, sea trout, small tarpon and snappers have been crashing into the baitfish schools. Find the birds and you will find the bait and then the fish. Live baits fished under a Cajun Thunder, Hook Up lures tipped with a soft plastic baitfish tail and Rapala X Raps, Twitchin raps and Skitter Walks have been responsible for a lot of the catches. Nighttime snook, small tarpon, snapper and jack action has been taking place around the bridge lights and dock lights on the outgoing tides.

South Biscayne Bay

Look for bonefish and permit to be tailing during the early morning tides before the winds pick up on the flats outside of Elliot Key, Cutters Bank, the Arsenicker Keys and along the southern shorelines south of Dinner Key. Cast live shrimp and skimmer jigs at the bonefish and small live blue crabs at the permit. Look for small tarpon to be feeding early in the mornings along the Oceanside flats and on the backside of the islands from Soldiers Key south to Ocean Reef. A white or pearl colored soft plastic on a chartreuse or white ¼ ounce Hook Up lure is the ticket for these tarpon. Small sharks and barracudas will be working many of these flats as well. High tide at Soldier Key on Saturday will be at 6:53 in the morning.

Flamingo in Everglades National Park

Florida Bay continues to provide shallow skiff anglers with good action on redfish, small tarpon, snook and sea trout. Snake Bight Channel and the flats nearby, Tin Can Channel, Palm, Frank and Murray Key all have been good areas to target. Whitewater Bay has seen some good tarpon action along with snook, goliath groupers, snappers and trout and the shorelines around Shark River have had some redfish feeding on mullet and pilchards. Low tide at Flamingo in Florida Bay on Saturday will be at 8:42 AM and in Whitewater Bay high tide is at 9:07 AM.

By Captain Alan Sherman |shermana@bellsouth.net | Web Site

By Captain Alan Sherman, www.getemsportfishing.com |shermana@bellsouth.net | Web Site

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