Fishing Reports by Capt. Jim Hobales

Time to catch! - July 2008 The fishing is good right now! The Tarpon, Permit, Bonefish, Barracudas and Sharks are plentiful on the ocean side flats from Key Biscayne to Key West from what I have seen and reports from other guides. Low water with low light in th more...
Capt. Jim Hobales - Flamingo

Fish are biting - 061408 I am at Flamingo today with Mike and his buddies James, Derrel and Dave, this was a fathers day gift from his wife. The conditions weren't the best but we made he best of it, they enjoyed the Trout fishing with chuggers. They caught of Tr more...
Capt. Jim Hobales - Flamingo

Fishing is good - 060608 Keith and John are good anglers from Georgia, we fished south Biscayne Bay and were looking to catch a little bit of everything. We started Inside the bay because it was breezy after a couple a small Sharks I decided to run out on the ocean more...
Capt. Jim Hobales - Flamingo

June report - This is the time of year everything can come together early in the morning. The Tarpon,Snook and Redfishing can be as good as it ever gets at first light. This is the time of year where backcountry slams Tarpon,Snook,Redfish,Trout are very comm more...
Capt. Jim Hobales - Flamingo

Tarpon are here - 050908 Steve is in from England with his trusty fly rod, I decided to fish Whitewater Bay because there had been some fish back there. The winds were blowing around 15 so we stayed tight up against the islands. Steve had some opportunities but int more...
Capt. Jim Hobales - Flamingo

Flamingo backcountry is redhot - The winds should start to dwindle soon it's been steady at 20 mph for months. When the winds come down the Tarpon will definitely get into the normal spring time pattern instead of being out in the Gulf. The Snook fishing in Florida Bay has been disa more...
Capt. Jim Hobales - Flamingo

Slow bite after full moon - 042508 Today I am involved in a 2 boat trip, early on I have Andrew, Cane and John and they caught plenty of Trout, Jacks and Ladyfish. Andrew and Cane had in important meeting to get to so they cut it short. In the afternoon Rick and Rob took the more...
Capt. Jim Hobales - Flamingo

Tarpon are here! - 041908 Richard was my first regular customer when I started guiding in 2000 we probably fished 8 times that year. I haven't heard from until this past week, Richard always brought his grandsons and this time it was no different, he brought more...
Capt. Jim Hobales - Flamingo

Tarpon bite - 041408 Dan said his plane arrives at 1100 am and would like to be on the water for as much of the day as we could, I said no problem. I met Dan on South Beach and headed to Government Cut, I knew we could we could catch some fish in the area. The more...
Capt. Jim Hobales - Flamingo

Plenty of SLAMS - 040908 Kathy and Rick are here from San Diego, Rick turned 50 today and this was his gift, pretty nice. They love to fishing and every time they come in I try to show them a different part of our fishery, but Tarpon has to be on the list. We start more...
Capt. Jim Hobales - Flamingo