Emily MIchot can still put his customers ( on bonefish, tarpon and permit at the southern end of the bay. He’s fished the water of Biscayne Bay for decades and seen a sharp decline in many species his anglers like to pursue. Jorge Valverde of Cooper City, who has fished the bay for more than 40 years, has similar memories of what used to be.įishing guide Jorge Valverde navigates the bay waters of Biscayne National Park south of Homestead Bayfront Park. They’re sand bars where people anchor and grill hot dogs and probably never knew there was a blade of grass there.”Ĭapt. Those grass flats, what happened to them? They’ve turned into sand bars is what’s happened to them. You could bring your rod with a popping cork and a live shrimp 12 months out of the year and go to these grass flats and catch something. And we’d paddle out in our kayaks to the grass flats and catch sea trout, mangrove snappers, snook, jacks, big blue runners and even catfish. I’d run up and down the canals chasing jack crevalles, try to get in front of them on a seawall, throw a white bucktail jig at them. “I grew up in that house from 1988 to 2010. I was born and raised on Biscayne Bay,” said Raymond of Miami Beach, whose great-grandfather built a house on Biscayne Point at the north end of the bay in 1948. “My heart has always been in Biscayne Bay. Too much polluted fresh water being released into the bay, along with too many recreational boats and too much fishing pressure have wiped out acres and acres of fish habitat, and threaten to wipe out some fish species from the bay.Ībie Raymond is one of many charter captains who has seen his beloved bay go from can’t-miss fishing to can’t hardly catch a fish.
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