Fishing Reports by Capt. Jim Hobales

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

Beginning of April - The fishing has been good thru March, the one constant we have had is the wind which normally dies @ the 2 week of April. On the days the winds are down and and we can fish around the beaches and Government Cut there have been Tarpon, Permit, Snook more...
Capt. Jim Hobales - Flamingo

Plenty of Snook/Tarpon - 032208 Greg, Mike ad their 2 boys met me at the dock at Flamingo for a catch filled day. I kept the boys busy with Ladyfish, Trout and Jacks while keeping an eye on the storms the were developing just south of us. I had netted some pilchard and i more...
Capt. Jim Hobales - Flamingo

Still breezy but catching fish! - 031208 I am fishing with Ed and Brian in Whitewater Bay today and this was an interesting day. Ed is a pro bass angler and did some things just a little different than I normally do. He started out by throwing this big swim bait like they use out more...
Capt. Jim Hobales - Flamingo

Paying dues - 030708 This morning I am fishing Government Cut with Sam,Travis and Chini (I don't know if that's spelled right) but she is the one that caught all the fish. The winds were south at 25 mph but we had some protection from Fisher Island. We fished the more...
Capt. Jim Hobales - Flamingo

Breezy in the back country - 030108 I am fishing with Patricia and John from Maryland in the Flamingo Back country, today is the opening of Snook season. We started out a little later and the parking lots are packed. The super low tides and winds were a factor today so I deci more...
Capt. Jim Hobales - Flamingo

Big Snook Bite - 022808 I am at Flamingo with Don and his 2 sons Matt and Mike. It seemed like we caught 2 fish at every spot we went to today, the nice part is they were Snook up into the 30 inch mark. These guys were good anglers and had fun catching fish. We got more...
Capt. Jim Hobales - Flamingo