A great day on the tarpon flats and I was able to put my good friend Socrates on his first big tarpon on the fly. We worked a couple areas down South and he put the fly in a group of happy fish perfectly. A couple strips and he was hooked up. He fought the fish beautifully and she came boat side in less than 30 minutes. A couple pic's we revived h...

A quick break in the tarpon action and I had Jason on board as he requested tackling some grouper. I had a great Memorial Day weekend on the tarpon as we boated 2 real nice fish and jumped 5 on the fly; but for today we changed it up. I took Jason to a couple different ledges and we brought in a fine limit of gag grouper and a 35" cobia for the da...

A fun day with Corey on board and he found the tarpon he was looking for. We set up made a couple long drifts and had our opportunity to make it happen. We used DOA bait busters and the right fish made his day. He fought the fish beautifully and a tarpon is now off his bucket list and a fiberglass replica will be in his home. A great day and I tha...

Hello everyone well our cobia trip turned into a redfish trip for Dennis and Nathan. I took a quick break in the tarpon action and mixed it up a bit. Unfortunately if was just to rough to go offshore to where I needed to and the gumbo slime was horrible covering our baits; which made dropping baits down offshore impossible. So we changed gears and...

Hello everyone I just wanted to check in and say I've mostly been fly fishing for tarpon the last couple weeks. Weather has been a huge factor lately with this relentless gusty East wind we've been having. Some days it's fishable some not so much. There's not a bunch of fish around but we have been jumping a few and having some shots on the fly. I...

By Capt. Sergio Atanes The large school of baitfish made a dash to one side barely avoiding the gleaming teeth of a large king mackerel....

By Capt. Sergio Atanes The large school of baitfish made a dash to one side barely avoiding the gleaming teeth of a large king mackerel....

By Capt. Sergio Atanes Black Drum (Pogonias Cromis) Black drum are like the redfish in shape but are distinguishable by their color and...

By Capt. Sergio Atanes Black Drum (Pogonias Cromis) Black drum are like the redfish in shape but are distinguishable by their color and...

Some red fish for Greg and Tom on today's trip and this father and son team did well. We started out trout jigging and caught several under slot fish but no keepers for us today. The tide was coming good though and we did just fine on the inside. A couple nice snook fought a whopper of a tiger shork for a bit and finished the day with a limit of l...

Cedar Key’s May Inshore Fishing Report The Redfish and Speckled Trout are biting good and the weather has been beautiful too. The Redfish seem to like the moving tide whether it’s in or out around the oyster bars near Deadman’s North Snake or Seahorse & Gomez keys. As usual we’re […] The post May Means Loads Of Fish And Beautiful Weather In Cedar...

Another windy one on the big pond and it was a steady 15mph South wind all day. Scotty and Greg were my team and they did really well. We jigged in the 8ft range with MirrOlure Lil' Johns and found a fine limit of trout. The tide wasn't really good for much on the inside so we called it a day with a fine catch... Capt. Dan

The rain got us today but we had some fun before we got wet. I had the Weeks family on board and they had a ball. We started the trip putting a couple nice trout on ice and quality fish as well. I knew we didn't have a bunch of time before the weather hit us so there was enough tide to run inshore and let the team all catch there first snook. The...

A breezy one out there for Chuck and Rena and we did well on the trout. The tide was a weak one today so for sure fire action I said lets do the trout plan. Well it worked out really well and we had a limit by 11am using Lil' Johns. I did make a stop inshore and Rena caught her first snook but just not enough tide movement to get the red fish goin...

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Well today was my last day of the spring 2021 snook season as I have to do treatment tomorrow and the season ends Friday. Terry and Corey were my guest and a fine catch was had. Offshore trout filled out our morning and they were fired up. Lots of action with under sized fish plus some real quality keepers. On the inside the snook bite was superb...

We sealed the deal on the big three today for our inshore slam of trout red fish and snook. Brian and Corey were my team and they did really well. A nice trout limit began our day and on the inside we found our reds and snooks. The red fish were on and we caught and released about 6 nice slot fish to wrap up our slam. I thank you both and great jo...

A great start to the week with the Sans team on board. Tony Steve and Ray did well as we stared the day jigging up some trout. Watermelon colored Lil' johns did the job on the trout and we soon enough headed back inshore for a couple snook. The snook were a little tricky today and it definitely took some work to get them going. We did though and e...

Our last day with the West party in Homosassa and my goodness the fan was on high today! A strong and I mean strong South wind was with us and the only plus was it brought the tide in. We boated a couple trout but Anita and Batie did excellent on the reds. I tucked up in the creeks to seek some shelter form the wind and hit a hot pocket. The ladie...

A couple good days in Homosassa with the West party and for breezy conditions we did well. Thursday and Friday both consisted of some tough fishing but my teams did great. We did well on trout and each trip produced a keeper snook. A fine shore lunch was included by myself and fellow guides Mark Zorn Rick Spratt John Hamilton and Mike Baize. We al...