    
Capt. Ralph Piņeiro
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Votes: 0 | | Posted on Monday, January 08, 2001 - 8:27 pm: | |
Subject: Fish Report - Jan 7, 2001
1/7/2001
Happy New Century everyone! Hope you've had a chance to break-in that new rod Santa brought you, we sure have. Fishing is pretty good, the only problem is that it has been really cold every morning, and makes it had to roll out of bed. We've had a stretch of about three weeks now where the highs stay in the high 60's, maybe 70 or 71. This certainly been the coldest winter (so far) in
several years. The water in Biscayne Bay is cold. My
thermometer read a chilly 56 degrees yesterday, so you might as well forget about catching bait or just about anything else in the Bay. I hope the snook and such move outside or we might start seeing dead fish (due to cold)floating belly up. Bait continues to be hard to round up sometimes.
We are marking it on the depth finder in the deeper channels but they do not want to hit the sabikis.
The high winds and cold weather triggered the shrimp run. The few shrimp netting aficionados brave enough to go out at night are netting their 5 gallon bucket of the tasty pink delicacies in short time. Sailfish and Kingfish head the list of catches. The temperature at the reef has dropped
to around degrees F. Sails have been best at
around 140 feet, and Kings at 110 to 125 feet. Bonito and a few scattered dolphin usually show up to pick the kite baits.
14 year old Tracy caught her first king aboard my boat yesterday, some nice mangrove snappers and a very large barracuda that decided to crash our reef fishing party. The kings and some grouper can be caught with jig/ballyhoo rigs, live baits, or even a whole squid, a fillet of mullet or other fresh bait.
It's time to Go Catchin', call us we'll take you where they are biting, and don't forget to release one for tomorrow's anglers!
Capt. Ralph Piņeiro
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