Wendy and Tom Sims of Miami Shores spent 5 days fishing with Capt. Skip Nielsen last week. Every day we fished different areas and fished different species. Day 1 we fished the cape sable area catching snook,redfish,tarpon. Big sharks were a problem. They ate a couple redfish and a snook. We kept a redfish that was sharkbit and a nice snook for dinner. Day 2 we fished the Flamingo area catching lots of trout,jack crevalle, and 12 snook including some keepers up to 31". Day 3 we travelled to northeast Floriday Bay and fished Terrapin Bay,Crocodile Dragover and McCormick Creek. Lots of juvy snook and big crevalle jacks and mangrove snapper. also a redfish and jumped a tarpon.Day 4 we netted live pilchards and headed out to Oxfoot Bank on the western edge of Fl. Bay. Chumming and freelining pilchards the spanish mackerel found us. This is an early run but we caught big ones for 3 hours on the incoming tide. Also in the same spot released 12 trout, 20 ladyfish, 5 cero mackerel, kept 10 fat mangrove snapper for dinner as well. As the tide slacked so did the bite so we cruised over by Sandy Key and chummed up a bunch of pinfish and headed for a secret spot. There Tom fought a huge sawfish for over an hour. Also Wendy caught a 200 lb bullshark and a goliath grouper. Wendy also caught a big snook and a cobia. Tom ended the day with a 50 tarpon on 12lb spin tackle. Day 5 dawned slick calm so we decided to fish the gulf wrecks. By 12 noon we had released 7 goliath grouper with Tom bringing a 300 pounder boatside. The crevalle jacks were swarming. It was hard work and as it was slick calm hot! We finished the day by running from the gulf in to the cape sable beaches. Bait was everywhere so with a quick cast of the net we reloaded the livewell with pilchards and released some snook,spanish macks and more jacks. Wendy and Tom had a blast and a great 5 days of fishing. Thanks guys!
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