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Just imagine being in your 40's or 50's and talking to someone about how you've been bonefishing a bunch of times but never caught any bonefish and how's it's been a bucket list fish for years.  Now imagine while you're

  The week of Thanksgiving always finds me busy but boy this was another level. I had regular client David and his friend Clay on Sunday for a six hour trip fly fishing for bonefish tarpon permit and then a four hour trip in the afternoon with

President's Day wasn't as crazy on the water as I had thought so it was nice to get on the water with Mike and Marianne to catch different species and help them relax while on Mike's company trip.  I took them to a spot where there

 I fished with Stefan once before and he was back today with his friend Eugene and his 10 year old son Marlon.  They wanted dinner so we looked for pilchards but they were MIA hmmm that stinks.  No worries I had plenty of live shrimp

Alex and his buddies jumped in the boat and they just wanted to fish for anything in saltwater as they are from Minnesota and hadn't fished in salt water.  Bad news was there was no live bait in any bait shop in Homestead as we had terrible

The Bonefishing was very good this morning on captain Donnie Benbow's charters. Fishing the flats off Islamorada Donnie had many shots on the flyers and spin. To book a Bonefishing trip call 3053930363

Lisa had booked a trip for her kids to get out and so some fishing.  Well the kids wanted to catch anything that was fun and have a good time.  I have to tell you it was tough not going bonefishing with the perfect conditions we had but it

What a blast!  A group of guys were down for business meetings and some have been friends since middle school and they all wanted to fish.  The morning trip was two boats me and a buddy of mine and the race was on to see who would catch mo

Tarpon season has been slow and today was a shining example unfortunately Alexis and Raul were on board to witness it.  Although I searched all over creation the only tarpon I found were at a bridge and they wouldn't eat.  That's i

I had Nick on board today with fly rod in hand for some general fly catching so we started off for snook where he had a couple of hits but swings and miss.  WIth the wind increasing I took him to a few wrecks where he caught a bunch of snappers

 I was with Kevin today and the last time Kevin and I fished it was an epic day.  Today not so much.  fishing was generally slow with no help from the weather.  While November is our best weather month we've had tons of wind

Fishing has been on fire regardless of weather conditions moon phase air temperatures whatever it hasn't mattered so I was excited to get back to work today with Vic and Billy from Boca Raton FL.  We had great weather although a bit breezy

Day three with Mike and the man is on fire!  We were back in Homestead with perfect conditions (which included over cast skies and zero wind) and off we went to fish for bonefish.  The bonefishing on the outgoing tide was surprisingly slow

On Wednesday I had two trips.  My morning trip was with Gustavo from New Jersey originally from Argentina.  Gustavo has been fly fishing for a while but never in salt water so today was his first salt water fishing trip ever.  He didn

96 Recfishwest Newsletter View this email in your browser Recfishwest Fishing Report 04/08/23 Going eye to eye with a monster estuary cod in waters off Exmouth. Best of luck if you manage to hook up to one of these giants (your back and biceps will

 John jumps in the boat and tells me he has tried to catch bonefish for years but caught tarpon and bonefish instead.  Ha poor guy!  Anyway off to go bonefishing we went.  Spot one produced one bite that didn't get hooked and

Alex was back on board today with his buddy Brandon and the weather worked backwards today.  It started off nasty with us having to constantly change spots to avoid the lighting and strong rain but thankfully Alex is a tough guy and we stuck it

Brad Jason and Cody couldn't be nicer guys to fish with.  The guys kept me laughing and had a blast.  We started tarpon fishing with tarpon rolling around us but soon enough they told me they decided no tarpon but sharks instead. 

 Doug and Rochelle have fished with me plenty before so we were at it on our annual fishing trip.  We started just bending rods on some wrecks to get Rochelle some action before bonefishing.  After catching some snappers and bluerunne

After a day off a cancellation and a couple of rod bending trips I had John on board for a full day of fly fishing.  The day definitely did not have the typical calm wind May conditions.  From the moment we boarded the skiff it was already