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Cloudy day windy nice temps east winds. Water is rough clean waves 2 - 3. Yesterday:  Reds Hard tails Whiting Ladyfish Bonito Spanish King and Pompano. Today:  Hard tails Reds Lady fish and Pompano.

I had the pleasure of fishing with Cindy and Barry Shelor again this morning and I met them down at the Big Talbot Island Park boat ramp. Although the weather report called for some stiff winds today it turned out that we had excellent fishing condi

Inshore- Fishing is already starting to improve greatly with water temps on the rise expect bigger hungrier fish to feed more aggressively this month. Snook Spotted Seatrout Redfish & Pompano are common catches as of this week. Lots of other vari

This past week I fished from Port of the Islands Flamingo to Key Largo and live bait is the key. There are Mullet schools everywhere and fish re chasing them. The weather continues to be an either with rain or wind. If you don’t go you wont ca

On Friday Dec. 6 I pre-fished Flamingo to see what tides were going to be like the next day for the Day on the Bay Tournament. I am fishing with Paul and his son PJ Paul. It didn’t take long and we were on some Tarpon that wouldn’t play

I fished again this morning with George Bowlin who brought along his two sons Paul and Mark with plans to fish the back water during the last two hours of the falling tide. We headed up to Jolley River and fished the Bank tossing jigs and live shrim

We had overcast skies all morning long but it made for some very comfortable fishing. I had met Smith Marks his dad Tim and his brother-in-law Jonathan down at the City marina and we made a run north and into the Jolley River to fish the very first

June is here and we are getting into the summer time mode here in Islamorada. The last week or so we've had very calm wind which has been nice and led to some good conditions for many things. We had a little bit of rain on and off for a couple d

The winds slacked off this morning which made for a beautiful day for Jeff and Julie Bachler to get out and experience the back country waters of Amelia Island Florida. I met them down at the Big Talbot Island Park boat ramp and we headed up the Nas

I I only fished Flamingo the last week although it was busy in the parking lot never we had a crowd problem. I covered lots of water from Flamingo north to Ponce Deleon Bay on a few days and found fish in most areas. This was a good week of fishing

Overall Catch Success Rate All Species Combined 77% Numbers at a glance: Billfish 30% Tuna 7 % other 42 % Dorado 7% We start this week with an off season Blue Marlin spotted 27 miles over on the Pacific side guided by Captain Ricardo Escamilla on Pi

This past week there has been some great fishing as the results of the Take Stock in Children tournament showed. On Friday with the Thacker Boone group we had an incredible afternoon with big Reds Trout Snook and a 150 lb. Tarpon for a minute. They

The water was like glass this morning as the sun came up with not a cloud in the sky. I met Jason Stallings and his team of anglers Trevor and Nicole down at the City boat ramp and we headed  north to fish the outside of Tiger Island with float

 Whenever you finish up a fishing trip having caught a 30.5 Redfish a 23.5 Seatrout and a 22.5 Flounder you can feel assured that it was a pretty good day of fishing! That's a pretty big Amelia Island Back Country Slam! I had met William an

I fished the south end today and again we had just a tad bit of breeze. When I met Bill Lavery and his buddy Joe down at the Sawpit Creek boat ramp we made the long ride to Broward Island to try and catch the first of the incoming tide - and we got

We had some active anglers on the boat Henry and Oscar who brought along their mom and dad Jenifer and Bryan. We met down at the City marina and with a high tide that was still coming in made the plan to run up Bell River and fish some flooding oyst

Trout fishing has been very good lately. Both for sand trout and spotted sea trout. We’ve been soft plastics (white has been color of choice lately) on 1/8th ounce jigs in 5-8′ over patch sea grass bottom. Spanish Macks and the dreaded l

Warm weather is here and with it comes a host of seasonal species like shark ladyfish and bluefish. Our traditional targets redfish and trout are hungry as ever as bait fills our waters. Our fishery is brimming with life and opportunities for anglers

June is rolling on and we've started to settle into some of our summer time patterns here in Islamorada. Weather has been nice the last week we've had some scattered showers and light variable winds - normal for this time of year. Fishing ha

After looking at the weather forecast last night we decided to move up a fishing trip today going 30 minutes earlier and getting in some fishing before the rain storms came through. I met Robert Elarbee and his brother down at the Sawpit Creek boat