Flats Fishing ,Big Pine Key Fla
Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2016 5:17 pm
We chartered with Strike Zone Charters and had a great captain, Kevin, who grew up here and fishes on his day off. This kid really put us on some fish. We each caught a bonefish , mine a real trophy. These fish should be on everyone's to catch list. My fish easily pulled 100 yards of line with a drag so tight that I had a hard time stripping line by hand without cutting myself.Very light tackle and shrimp bait. This is sight fishing. Very challenging in a light chop and some cloud cover. Lost one and also caught a 10 lb( ?) bonnet shark which is quite a handful itself. We also fought some lemon sharks, but any shark is tough without. A leader. We could have caught them all day long, but you don't rig for shark when the bones are around. Bonefish are probably pound for pound the hardest fighting there is, everything that you have heard about them is true.Not huge but at 5 or 6 lbs a real trophy for me. I guess I should have tried the fly gear but wanted to get one in the boat first. Now my next mission is to talk the trip financial officer into doing a night time tarpon trip under the bridges. Not doing much from shore but had a few hard hits on some frozen mullet . I guess that I can't attach pics in this section but will try to put them in fishing reports.