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Local clients Maria and Elissa booked me for a half day after almost a year of them working way too much.  They always like to fish for dinner trade fish for mangos with their neighbor.  LOL  The first few spots proved slow with small

My morning trip was with Owen and David and we started off tarpon fishing finding a few and throwing flies and baits but it was an eco tour.  We switched off to bonefish which was also slow with the highlight was David hooking a stingray. 

Key West fishing report for August 2025 – It’s been a windy summer so far. Some days with SE wind pushing 20 mph. The flat calm days we are accustomed to are a few and far between. This is probably why our inshore waters have had lower w

These two weeks have been hot but they have been fun!  Fishing with a number of clients I've had the opportunity to fish for different species from bonefish to snappers.  My week started with local regular clients Josh and Janelle fish

I had two families today and the morning trip was with Mike and his 9 year old son Jackson.  The goal was to keep the rods bend and make sure Jackson caught some fish and he sure did.  He kept busy fighting jacks and snappers and had a bla

LOL  That's the only way to start this report about my trip with Mike and his son Aaron from North Dakota.  The guys jumped in the boat and Aaron had the biggest two piece conventional rod I've ever seen and he called it Big Chungu

I saw this coming as the new moon stayed at around 0-2% for far too long.  What this means is that fishing generally becomes tough for pretty much almost all species and this was proven today.  My morning trip was with Jordan and we went s

This is really crazy we're already in 2022 and it feels like we skipped over 2020.  Any way happy new year everyone!  Business and the fishing was on fire but as soon as the new year hit with the huge spikes in Covid infections and fli

THE legendary Moldy Chum pointed us to this Forbes article that resonates no matter whether you are chasing bonesfish in Florida a Norfork bonefish or a White River brown trout In one Florida study each bonefish was valued at $3 500 annually or more

Well what can I say it's been good this week!  From bonefish to snook and everything in between.  The first two trips of the week was with Ben and his son Patrick and the following day with Ben and his other son Nick.  What two gr

96 Spring 2024 Newsletter Spring 2024 Newsletter View this email in your browser Spring Newsletter 2024 This Spring has seen some fantastic fishing with some big trophy fish landed by guests. Quality cobia golden trevally bonefish longtail tuna and

96 Easter 2024 Fishing Report and Newsletter View this email in your browser Happy Easter! Jan Feb March 2024 It’s been a fantastic start to 2024 for HBFSF! We thank everyone for their support so far this year and we wish everyone a Happy East

In this video Jay ties a Bonefish fly. A good pattern to try next time you’re down fishing the salt! Hook: TMC 811s size 6 Eyes: Chicone’s Stealth Bead Chain Eyes Thread: 6/0 Danville Grey Tail: Aussie Possum natural Mono … Continue

Man this early morning high tide is killing me.  It's been scattering the fish and making them tough to talk into eating a fly but Tom was aboard today we gave it a full day.  I ran all over creation today with few shots and no fish ho

I am fishing with brothers Thomas and Raul today in the Everglades back country. We are back here a few days after Hurricane Nicole passed thru the state of Fl. We -started out quick with a Snook and a jumped Tarpon then it slowed down. We ran aroun

Eugene hadn't used his fly rod for ten years he told me and with the windy conditions it would be tough to do some of the really hard stuff like bonefish on fly.  So we fished the shoreline for snook but they were MIA.  Next I took him

I had two trips scheduled today and my first trip was with Mark and his Kids Maggie and Darryl.  They wanted to target bonefish and we hooked up but something happened as Maggie was fighting the big bonefish that we couldn't figure out but

Alec usually fishes full days with me but today life got in the way and could only do a half day in the afternoon with the goal of just catching fish and use his new GoPro.  I took him to a channel where he caught some snappers and yellow jacks