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Well here is the last report for the backcountry for the year likely! Fishing has been good I've been out the last few days and was out of town for christmas to enjoy some time with the wifes family. Before I left for the holidays on the 21st we

February is nearing an end and we have more cold weather on the way this evening! Amazingly lows will be in the low 50s again the next couple nights. This will put the tarpon off for a while longer they never really got going much this February as i

March is here and it's been busy around town again thankfully! Many guides have been fishing just about every day. Though we've had some crazy winter weather as they've been getting all up and down the east coast. February was ridiculous

A great day with Cheryl and Megan and the mother and daughter team had a blast. We started the day running and gunning for triple tail and eventually we found a weed line that had some fish. The team used a combination of live shrimp and glow DOA je

Big tarpon still Being caught off Islamorada in the Florida keys. Capt Donnie Benbow of Skins and Fins Charters landed a Epic silver king over 150 pounds. Using a live crab Capt Donnie's guest fought the big tarpon well into the dark. To book a t

Well November is rolling by and it's still been fairly warm for the most part though we did just have a slight cool down and look to have another dip into the high 60s perhaps on Sunday evening. Though overall still fairly warm! Fishing has been

Florida panhandle fly fishing season for Tarpon is quickly approaching! Be sure to book your dates with me for the annual migration of the greatest gamefish in existence. Experience the famous flats of Pancea Carabelle Apalachicola along with Port S

Well November is moving right along and it looked like we were going to have a bit of an early winter at the end of October with a pretty cold early front. However since then things have calmed down and warmed right back up! This week the temperatur

Sorry for the lack of blog updates but we've been having a few issues with the blog as of late. Every time I've tried to do a fishing report it would end up crashing on me and I'd lose all my work so I had gotten frustrated with it. I

Spring is in full effect here in Fort Myers and Sanibel and the fishing has really begun to heat up.  We've been seeing the Tarpon migration since the middle of March but it hasn't been till the past couple weeks that they've bee

Well Christmas is here but you wouldn't have any idea of that living here in South Florida. We're experiencing an unusually warm late december and it almost feels like summer outside. Temperatuers the last few days have been in the 80s going

Hope everyone had a safe and happy new year! 2018 is officially under way and we had a very busy christmas week here in Islamorada thankfully. Many guides were happy to be busy once again as overall it's been very slow for many of us the last co

Shots at permit tarpon and Bonefish.  Got a nice bonefish to the boat on the 9wt. flyrod.

Still looking for that last-minute holiday gift? We offer gift certificates for any type of angler but we've put together a short list of things that we'd like to find under the tree this year! Below you'll find staff favorites and new a

I have already had a bunch of inquires for the 2017 “Hill Tides” so I have decided to post the dates. These dates are simply very consistent times based upon the strongest tides of the year. They are ABSOLUTELY NOT the ONLY times for cat

Well February is just about over with and boy has it been a warm one! I think I read it's the hottest February on record in the South Florida area with it being around 8 degrees above average temperature for the entire month. We haven't had

Hey everyone it's been a while since I posted a report so here's what's going on right now.  The fishing is on fire right now this is the month of the spawning redfish and we're on an awesome bite.  All the redfish are betwe

Sanibel Fishing & Captiva Fishing Redfish! Sanibel Fishing & Captiva Fishing Sanibel Island Saturday April 1 2017: Redfish Spanish Mackerel & Sharks catch & release tarpon around but haven’t jumped one; latest Re

Season 12/Show 23/Piers & Jetty  We have the longest fishing pier in the state with the old Sunshine Skyway Bridge that’s now been turned into a fishing pier across Tampa Bay. The Skyway Bridge stretches from Manatee County to Pinellas Co

IT HAS BEGUN!!!! 2017-18 Season underway. Simply put the best billfish fishery in the world. 2nd week of October we were hustling to get boats in the water. The first 6 days on the sails call we had close to 20 marlin in the spread. Numerous tags an