October is here and the Fall Migration continues to excite South Florida Fishermen. Head over to Biscayne Bay or any of the Ocean Inlets and take a look across the water and you are almost guaranteed to see fish activity somewhere in your sights. Schools of baitfish from the smallest glass minnows to large black mullet have been and will continue to migrate along the Southeast Coast and into the bays as hungry large fish gorge on them until they are full. Just a few days ago I took my wife on a walk along the beach at Haulover Inlet and saw anglers catching snook, bluefish, Spanish and king mackerel, bluerunners, jacks and permit right from shore. Gulls were diving everywhere and baitfishes were being pushed to the surface where hungry predators were anxiously waiting to eat them. The fishermen were in a frenzy too quickly making casts or unhooking fish as fast as they could so they could make another cast to the hungry fish that were eating the baitfish. In the ocean a few days before we were treated to calm waters and hungry kingfish and quickly limited out with kings to 13 pounds and in the bay one quick cast of my 10 foot Lee Fisher Net filled two live wells with large pilchards. Jacks, bluerunners, sea trout, barracudas and snappers were forcing the baitfish to the surface and then crashing into them with an explosion of whitewater. On Friday my anglers were hooking up on almost every cast using ' ounce Hook Up lures tipped with a Gulp Pogy. Just yesterday my anglers from the West Coast of Florida got in on the action or at least got to see the Fall Migration action taking place as the predators had too much to choose from and at times seemed full and not interested in what we were throwing. Again the bait was thick and one cast filled the well with large pilchards. It was too rough for us to go offshore and get in on the kingfish action and too rough to get close to where Spanish and small king mackerel, bluefish, jacks and ladyfish were crashing baits in the rough outgoing tide in the inlet but we fished inside and watched an angler fishing from the rocks catch two snook. Later we had tarpon rolling around us and big jacks crashing into monster schools of finger mullet. We threw Hook Up lures, Rapala X Raps and live baits at the tarpon and large jacks but there was too much bait for the fish to single out our offerings. Toward the end of our short 4 hour charter the two anglers had caught a bunch of bluerunners and jacks on Hook Up lures tipped with a Gulp Pogy a few barracudas and a short gag grouper plus a 9 pound jack crevalle on a live pilchard.
Count on this action to continue right into November and maybe longer and with the large amounts of baitfish that have infiltrated our area this year I look for the baitfish to stay in the bay hopefully throughout the year keeping the mackerels, bluefish, ladyfish and large jacks in the bay and of course our residential fish like the snook, tarpon, snappers, grouper, sea trout and barracudas will always be nearby in North or South Biscayne Bay.
Flamingo will continue to be hot with action from tarpon, snook, redfish, sea trout, sharks, snapper, jacks, ladyfish and many other species right up to the first real cold cold fronts and then the migratory species like the mackerel, bluefish and pompano become part of the catches well.
Do you live on the water? Do you have a dock or sea wall behind your home? If your answer was yes and you have read my report then you need the Super Fish Light on your dock or sea wall. The Super Fish Light easily attaches to your sea wall or dock and runs off of a 110 volt power cord and once set up to go on at night and turn off at a specific time will have snook, tarpon, snappers, jacks, ladyfish and baitfish like pilchards, shrimp and glass minnows right at your back door. From there you can either name your new pets or catch them for catch and release or dinner. www.superfishlights.com I hope to have some pictures real soon of my Super Fish Light and the fish it has attracted.
Captain Alan Sherman
'Get Em' Spotfishing Charters
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Capt. Alan Sherman
"Get Em" Sportfishing Charters