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We had a  beautiful cool and crisp morning when I met Tom and Mary Lou Stergios up at the Dee Dee Bartels Park. I launched in the dock saw a lit up shrimp boat motor by then Tom and Mary Lou and I pulled out from the dock as the sun came up. We

Captiva Fishing Ladyfish! Sanibel Fishing & Captiva Fishing Wednesday March 23 2016: Ladyfish and happy fisherman.  Please click here to Book A Charter Online.  Please check here for the latest Water Quality / Lake

Patrick of Captain Smiley Fishing Charters reports that fishing over the past two weeks has been great with the most recent days on the water providing excellent topwater action. The inshore waters are holding redfish trout and ladyfish with Zara Spo

 We had a nice morning greet us when I met Glenn and Patty Langford up at the Dee Dee Bartels Park asthe sun came up.  There was still about an hour of tide going out so we made a quick run over to Lanceford Creek and fished some dock pili

The water has cooled down with the recent fronts in the clearwater/Stpete FL. Bait has been plentiful with scaled sardines threadfin shad ladyfish and blue runners. This has started the nearshore to explode with Spanish Mackerel and their big brothe

Sunny hot and humid south west winds. Water is flat and clean waves 0 -1 temp 85. Yesterday:  King Hard tails Ladyfish Tarpon Bonito and Spanish. Today:  Blues Hard tails Ladyfish Tarpon Bonito and Spanish.

Had a call from Capt. Willy Le for a multi boat trip on the Indian River Lagoon.  We all met at Parrish Park and I had Andy and Neil on my boat for a day of redfishing.  We started out our day catching small redfish and keeper sea trout. &n

  I wrapped my week up fishing out at Goffinsville Park today. I met Joe Callow and his fishing buddies Jack and Larry early. We made a quick run down the Nassau and made  a stop at Spanish Drop and fished the exposed shell bank with jigs

  Luckily today we had just a bit of breeze so it wasn't quite as hot as it was yesterday. When we came in from fishing around 11am today there were a couple of anglers launching to start there day and with it being so hot I  thought c

March is rolling by fast and things are super busy here with spring break. Boats are fishing just about every day. We had a good 5 or 6 days of hard winds over a week ago followed by several nice day where fishing got very good tarpon were showing u

  After a weekend off I was back to work today when I met David Bolton and his daughter Katie out at his place on Lanceford Creek. We then made our way  back to the outside of Tyger Island and set  up fishing float rigs on a high and

 It was raining when I launched this morning but let up just a  bit before my guests Matt Park his son Joseph and his dad George met me up at the Dee Dee Bartels Park. I had just enough time to throw a cast net and get some (big) finger mu

Longtime clients this father and son team made the drive from Cape Canaveral to Fort Pierce to see my new office. Jim and Ryan had to put up with a lot of wind (no surprise here) but caught a boat-load! The guys caught ladyfish bluefish jacks trout

  I fished north today meeting Sam Dworetzky and his fiancée Ashlee and her parents Bonnie and Phil up at the Dee Dee Bartels Park. We ran north and west and up to the Jolley River turned into the current of a tide that had just started in

Captiva Fishing Spanish Mackerel. Sanibel Fishing & Captiva Fishing Friday April 22 2016:  Spanish Mackerel just in the passes mixed with jacks and ladyfish.  Better water from north end of Sanibel on up.  Please click here to

I had the pleasure of fishing again with Charles Lynn and his longtime buddy Julianne leaving out of the City marina this morning with clear skies just a slight breeze and the sun coming up. We eased around to Tiger Island and set up fishing with ji

 After a miserable slow bite yesterday I was back fishing south today meeting Eddie Byrd and Bob Kossman down at the Sawpit Creek boat ramp early. We made the run up the intercoastal turned in to Jackstaff and dipped into a side creek to f

  While I was cleaning fish yesterday my customer's son was trying to catch minnows off the dock with a dip net so I dug out my minnow trap added some Flounder skin and gave it to him. He dropped it in by the ramp and as we were finishing u

I was back to work today fishing with Tim Ayers and his son Andrew meeting them up at the Dee Dee Bartels Park early. It was a beautiful day and for August that's saying a lot. Running to our first stop up at the Jolley River we all felt a cooln

The bite has heated up around the Edisto Beach area as we have been targeting and catching redfish seatrout flounder ladyfish and sharks inshore. We have been hitting the flats and deep banks with structure such as oysters that still have water at lo