Nothing better than a long weekend for a boat owner, it gives you time to enjoy a little fishing and also a little time at the Sand bar with the family.
So I called up my former assistant coach Humberto Miret (Who is now an assistant principle at Coral Gables senior) and asked him if he wanted to go fishing. Not an easy task for him to get out of the house, the poor guy has been busier than a one legged man in an ass kicking contest since his wife had twins. I can only imagine how much work goes into twins because I had mine one at a time and that was all consuming so two at the same time has to be incredibly difficult.
Humberto got the OK from the Wife and the trip was set, I called up my current assistant Mike Castro and he was in as well.
We headed out early enough, arrived at Homestead Bayfront around 7:45 AM and were quickly underway. We stopped briefly to see if we could catch any Pin Fish, but they just weren’t there so we headed off to the Yellow Tail spot.
We arrived at the spot just 35 min later and looked around for a spot to anchor. I saw what I thought was a nice bottom, came around and anchored up. The first thing I noticed was that the current was crossed up with the wind, never a good thing when Yellow Tailing, it means that the boat is facing one way and the current is headed in an awkward direction that makes it hard to fish. To make matter worse, the current was very light up top and virtually non existent lower in the water column.
We were only in 57 feet of water so I decided to go a little deeper; we picked up anchor and reset, but to similar results. Humberto got a call from Capt. Juan Estevez (Why Knot Charters, we call him Papo) to see how we were doing, the report was not good, and Papo told us to run south a bit, he said they were killing the Mutton there just days before and we might have better luck there.
We picked up and ran south; I did not have any numbers so I blindly scanned the bottom for some structure. I found a little something and anchored up but the result was even worse south of the Whistle, at least on the North side there was a very light current, over here there was no current at all.
So we picked up and headed back north, on the way there I saw a boat anchored up in 65 feet or so, it looked like they were Yellow Tailing, chum bag in the water, rod straight back in free line mode etc. So I slowed down and scoped out the bottom, “Looks Good” I said, and we came around again looking for a good spot to throw anchor.
The mate on the boat that was already there was not pleased we had pulled up, but he doesn’t own the ocean, and I kept a respectable distance from them so I don’t know what was his problem? At first he waved good bye mockingly, and then when he realized we were about to anchor he screamed out, “did you run out of gas!” “F – You” I said you don’t own this spot A – Hole. The nerve of some people, this guy was willing to make trouble all for a fishing spot? Anyway, he had nothing to worry about, by the time we anchored up they already had them feeding off the back of their boat and despite our heavy chumming, it was not enough to bring them over to us. Humberto and Mike did manage a one, two, punch and caught 2 nice tails, I thought right away that we had brought them over, but it was just those two rogues because we tried for another 30 minutes or so and nothing.
We headed back south of the whistle and anchored up one last time, there were tons of bait fish in the water and I managed to catch two Cero Mackerel with a sidewinder jig that it seems Mackerel can’t resist. There was a Frigate bird circling above us a little north, and that could mean Dolphin in the area, the two boats directly behind us paired up on two nice size Dolphin, one the Bull and the other the Cow, we tried everything to get them to come to us but they never did. Still it was cool to see the fish jump out of the water and to see the other boats land their fish, as screams and cheers came for them from our boat and the other boats in the area.
A pretty bad storm was moving towards us from the North so we decided along with all the other boats out there to pick up and run in. We took on some heavy rain as we ran back, thankfully we all had rain gear or it would have been much more miserable.
On Sunday my cousin JC called and we took the families to the Sand Bar just outside Key Biscayne; the wind was howling, and the waters were rough even inside the bay. Still, the kids had a great time swimming and playing around in the water. I relaxed in the water for a long while with JC while our wives laid out and slept on board. I told Tania (my lovely wife) that she looked a little burnt, she ignored it and when we got home she noticed that she was in fact a little extra crispy.
So all in all it was another great weekend on the boat, we did not catch a lot of fish, and the weather was a little rough on Sunday, but it sure beats staying at home watching TV. I’ll see if I can stir up better results next week.
Till Then…
So I called up my former assistant coach Humberto Miret (Who is now an assistant principle at Coral Gables senior) and asked him if he wanted to go fishing. Not an easy task for him to get out of the house, the poor guy has been busier than a one legged man in an ass kicking contest since his wife had twins. I can only imagine how much work goes into twins because I had mine one at a time and that was all consuming so two at the same time has to be incredibly difficult.
Humberto got the OK from the Wife and the trip was set, I called up my current assistant Mike Castro and he was in as well.
We headed out early enough, arrived at Homestead Bayfront around 7:45 AM and were quickly underway. We stopped briefly to see if we could catch any Pin Fish, but they just weren’t there so we headed off to the Yellow Tail spot.
We arrived at the spot just 35 min later and looked around for a spot to anchor. I saw what I thought was a nice bottom, came around and anchored up. The first thing I noticed was that the current was crossed up with the wind, never a good thing when Yellow Tailing, it means that the boat is facing one way and the current is headed in an awkward direction that makes it hard to fish. To make matter worse, the current was very light up top and virtually non existent lower in the water column.
We were only in 57 feet of water so I decided to go a little deeper; we picked up anchor and reset, but to similar results. Humberto got a call from Capt. Juan Estevez (Why Knot Charters, we call him Papo) to see how we were doing, the report was not good, and Papo told us to run south a bit, he said they were killing the Mutton there just days before and we might have better luck there.
We picked up and ran south; I did not have any numbers so I blindly scanned the bottom for some structure. I found a little something and anchored up but the result was even worse south of the Whistle, at least on the North side there was a very light current, over here there was no current at all.
So we picked up and headed back north, on the way there I saw a boat anchored up in 65 feet or so, it looked like they were Yellow Tailing, chum bag in the water, rod straight back in free line mode etc. So I slowed down and scoped out the bottom, “Looks Good” I said, and we came around again looking for a good spot to throw anchor.
The mate on the boat that was already there was not pleased we had pulled up, but he doesn’t own the ocean, and I kept a respectable distance from them so I don’t know what was his problem? At first he waved good bye mockingly, and then when he realized we were about to anchor he screamed out, “did you run out of gas!” “F – You” I said you don’t own this spot A – Hole. The nerve of some people, this guy was willing to make trouble all for a fishing spot? Anyway, he had nothing to worry about, by the time we anchored up they already had them feeding off the back of their boat and despite our heavy chumming, it was not enough to bring them over to us. Humberto and Mike did manage a one, two, punch and caught 2 nice tails, I thought right away that we had brought them over, but it was just those two rogues because we tried for another 30 minutes or so and nothing.
We headed back south of the whistle and anchored up one last time, there were tons of bait fish in the water and I managed to catch two Cero Mackerel with a sidewinder jig that it seems Mackerel can’t resist. There was a Frigate bird circling above us a little north, and that could mean Dolphin in the area, the two boats directly behind us paired up on two nice size Dolphin, one the Bull and the other the Cow, we tried everything to get them to come to us but they never did. Still it was cool to see the fish jump out of the water and to see the other boats land their fish, as screams and cheers came for them from our boat and the other boats in the area.
A pretty bad storm was moving towards us from the North so we decided along with all the other boats out there to pick up and run in. We took on some heavy rain as we ran back, thankfully we all had rain gear or it would have been much more miserable.
On Sunday my cousin JC called and we took the families to the Sand Bar just outside Key Biscayne; the wind was howling, and the waters were rough even inside the bay. Still, the kids had a great time swimming and playing around in the water. I relaxed in the water for a long while with JC while our wives laid out and slept on board. I told Tania (my lovely wife) that she looked a little burnt, she ignored it and when we got home she noticed that she was in fact a little extra crispy.
So all in all it was another great weekend on the boat, we did not catch a lot of fish, and the weather was a little rough on Sunday, but it sure beats staying at home watching TV. I’ll see if I can stir up better results next week.
Till Then…
Reef Raider gets his letters
Humberto Tries to catch some bait
Shake that Chum bag Mikie
Strawberry Grouper... GREAT!
Not a bad little Cero to avoid being skunked
Mikie catches his first Tail on his own, and it was a nice one
The kid next next to us fights a nice Dolphin
The meager catch
Shake that Chum bag Mikie
Strawberry Grouper... GREAT!
Not a bad little Cero to avoid being skunked
Mikie catches his first Tail on his own, and it was a nice one
The kid next next to us fights a nice Dolphin
The meager catch
JC takes a picture of his boat fromt he water
Chow time
OK Claudia Shiffer
Angelina and Jonah
I think the Logo is cool, what do you think?
2 comments:
WOW! You are hard core hitting it every weekend. When you said reef raider, i thought you were raiding the reefs not raiding the people already fishing. lol.
I am fishing 3 back to back tournaments starting this week. I will e-mail you some info.
j
lol!
Not this past weekend Jorge, I was saving it to go out tomorrow night for the New Moon but now it looks like the weather will turn foul.
I can't wait to get out and fish with you and Bob, the keys is just around the corner now.
Keep me updated on how you guys do at thouse tournaments, GOOD LUCK, I hope you kill'em.
Al
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