Happy New Year everyone. We've sent 2006 on its way into the history books and welcomed in 2007. The last week of 2006 saw Knot Nancy at Bob Hewes Boats in North Miami getting a new pair of Yamaha 200 HP HPDI engines with Command Link. They were installed just in time to get in trips the last Saturday and Sunday of 2006 and get off to a great start in 2007.
We've been doing a variety of fishing that has included offshore for sailfish, kingfish, and dolphin. Inshore its been tarpon out of Haulover Inlet and in the Bay, the seatrout have been cooperating very good along with decent size jack crevalle. Lets cover each of the areas with a bit more detail.
Offshore, the sailfishing has been very good on the days when the current has been running to the north. For the most part there has been good north current. When the current stops even though there is good blue water, the sailfishing drops off dramatically. Dolphin have been showing up while we're sailfishing. No large schools, just a single or double here and there. When we drift or slide inside of 120' and most of the time inside of 100', the kingfish take over.
Inshore at Haulover Inlet, the tarpon have been cooperating on most every trip. Tuesday evening (1/2/2007), Don Eichen saw action with 3 fish in the 60 - 75 pound class. In the Bay, the tarpon have been cooperating very good after dark with the right tides.
Also in the Bay, there have been a good number of seatrout. They are all small, but when you find them, the action is fast and furious on every cast. It's hard to beat a Cajun Thunder popping cork and shrimp. There are also some schools of very nice size jack crevalle roaming the edges of the grass flats on high tide. On Sunday (12/31/2006) the Milner family had a good time catching seatrout. A few days later on 1/3/2007, Jimmy Stone and his three sons had a whale of a morning. Ryan caught a very nice 8 pound jack crevalle on 6# test line. Then we found the seatrout and Max, Ryan, and Dad (Jimmy) were catching them on every cast. Jack was the official release man. He would hold out both hands and after I placed the trout in them, he'd quickly toss it back in the water and watch it swim off.
Offshore, the wind has been pretty much blowing hard and creating sea conditions that are mostly for the strong of stomach. On Saturday (12/30/2006) Mark Alavaez and Robert Iglesias were helping Chad and Christie Hodges celebrate their 10th wedding anniversary with a half day fishing trip. Wind was E @ 22 - 23 knots. Everyone enjoyed the bait fishing part of the trip. When we worked our way offshore, the first drift gave us a decent size kingfish. By the third drift, the motion of the ocean had gotten to one of the group and they decided to call it a morning.
Brothers Tim and Mark Burrel rang in the New Year (1/1/2007) with style. The SE/E wind @ 11 - 15 knots along with a strong north current made for some great fishing action. Mark caught his first sailfish and Tim caught his second sailfish. We got the pictures they wanted and also took a tag out of Tim's fish. Throw in 2 dolphin and a nice 15 pound kingfish to round out a good afternoon of fishing. All the fish ate pilchards on the kite except for the kingfish that ate a herring on a flatline.
Once in a great while, I'll have someone book a date and for whatever reason they won't call to cancel or show up. That happened on the morning of 1/2/2007. When I booked the trip with them they were very enthusiastic about fishing. A call to their cell phone on Tuesday morning had me talking to their voice mail. I'm hoping that I've gotten that once in a great while no show out of the way for a long time. It was their loss, the action for the fish they wanted to catch was great.
Tarpon and sailfish are here for the winter and cooperating nicely. Now's the time to call and book your date.
See you on the rip or at the Inlets.
Captain Dave
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Captain Dave Kostyo
Knot Nancy Fishing Charters
305 620-5896 Charter
305 965-9454 Cell
www.knotnancy.com
nkostyo@bellsouth.net
