Fishing Reports by Capt. Bouncer Smith

Fishing Report for Miami, Florida - Great New Year Fishing Action What a start to the new year! Although it has been windy, the fishing has been great. We started the year with Gary Friedman. He and his guest caught 4 sailfish, 2 dolphin and a 35 pound barracuda. On the 2nd, we caug more...
Capt. Bouncer Smith - Miami

Fishing Report for Miami, Florida - Windy Fishing Somebody turn off the fan. Windy is the word for the last week of the year. The fish are around, but it is tough catching them. Sunday the wind blew up to 40 knots from the west. We anchored in 90 feet of water and the Adam family c more...
Capt. Bouncer Smith - Miami

Fishing Report for Miami, Florida - Red Hot Catching What a week of fishing!!! We had George Palzak and a friend of his, Allen out Monday and they caught 2 sailfish, a 25 pound king mackerel, several other kings and caught a tarpon about 120 pounds after breaking the line on anoth more...
Capt. Bouncer Smith - Miami

Fishing Report for Miami, Florida - Grouper save the day Grouper has been our key word lately. We can tell you that the sailfish have not liked our pilchards this week. We were anchor fishing with live pilchards on the surface, while chumming heavily with them as well. We saw severa more...
Capt. Bouncer Smith - Miami

Fishing Report for Miami, Florida - December Delights December is coming up action. We have had a pretty good week. We had 3 fellows from Washington D.C. out to celebrate an upcoming wedding. The guest of honor was Coddy. They caught a triple header of sailfish out in 350 feet of wa more...
Capt. Bouncer Smith - Miami

Fishing Report for Miami, Florida - Thanks for the Nights Happy Thanksgiving to all. We all have things to be thankful for. Among those things I am most thankful for are my family, friends and clients. THANK YOU one and all. We can be thankful for our evening trips this week. W more...
Capt. Bouncer Smith - Miami

Fishing Report for Miami, Florida - November Catches Well we ended October with a bang and November is off and running. Our last trip of October was with some guys from TR-1 auto pilots. We left the dock after 7 and were tied up at 11:45 with two swordfish releases. The first more...
Capt. Bouncer Smith - Miami

Fishing Report for Miami, Florida - Fall Fishing Action Well it is hard to believe that October is coming to an end. We were looking forward to a bunch of swordfish trips this month, but we got a lot of rough NE winds. We had Jeff Shore out with his fishing partner John Freitag more...
Capt. Bouncer Smith - Miami

Fishing Report for Miami, Florida - The Fall Migration is On October is here and fishing is back to normal. Last week we fished with Terry Jackson and his two sons one afternoon. We fished live herring and speedos by slow trolling flatlines and a downrigger. The Jackson family had more...
Capt. Bouncer Smith - Miami

Fishing Report for Miami, Florida - Miami is Ready to Fish South Florida is in good condition. I know many of you must be wondering what is left of our state. Four hurricanes have ravaged Florida. By some miracle the south end of the state has been untouched. The highest winds from more...
Capt. Bouncer Smith - Miami