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We both agreed that it was an ideal day for fishing the backwaters of Amelia Island. I had met Jim Metternich down at the Sawpit Creek boat ramp this morning and as we headed out we had overcast skies just a slight breeze a baitwell full of live shr

Now that every thing has settled down from hurricane Irma I was able to get out on the water with Adam and Patty Garner this morning meeting them up at the Dee Dee Bartels Park on the north end of the island. There were a few logs in the river as we

What a great way to wrap a week up fishing with friends and neighbors Mark and Nilda Laurint and their son Brent visiting home from New York!  We  met down at the Big Talbot Island Park boat ramp and headed up the Nassau River making the l

You just can't beat these beautiful days for fishing here at Amelia Island! I met Paul Amos and his girlfriend Laura down at the Sawpit Creek boat ramp and we headed up the Amelia River to make our first stop in at Jackstaff Creek. The tide had

An absolutely beautiful day greeted Tom McDonough and I when we made it to the boat ramp early this morning. There was just a slight breeze and a few high clouds in the sky when we left the Sawpit Creek boat ramp and headed up the intercoastal with

After a day off I was back to work meeting Dean Jensen and his two sons Elijah and Tyler down at the Big Talbot Island Park boat ramp this morning. We had excellent weather - the slight breeze made it really comfortable to fish - and we made a quick

Today when we left my dock we headed into the deep creeks north of Everglades City. While at the creeks we caught a nice mix of mangrove snapper trout and Black drum using live shrimp for bait. Fishing in the Everglades has been great providing with

In Sarasota I have been out the pass to reef fish more times this season probably than I have in the last two. The red tide is gone, and the waters are gin clear. Unfortunately, we are still dealing with the residuals in our bay waters. I don&rsq

      June is just a fantastic month to target mangrove snapper in my region because the Gulf of Mexico is flat calm so you can run fast to the wrecks and reefs and the fish are schooled up and feeding. What’s nice about mangrov

Another month has passed here at Bud n' Mary's marina in Islamorada Florida Keys! Business is slowing down as we are hitting "off season" with the kids going to back to school and summer travel coming to an end. We have had both some

I finished my week today again fishing out of the Big Talbot Island Park boat ramp where I met Mike Brown and his father-in-law Dwight early this morning. Again it was a beautiful day clear skies with just a slight breeze and slick water as we ran u

You may have noticed I haven't reported trips the last week or so. That's because the couple of trips that I had around Shrimp Fest there wasn't much to report other than not much biting in the back water. I hear the big bull Reds can be

Water is crystal clear.. Hardly any current. Great nonstop bottom bite. Still some sailfish around. King Mackerel’s on all the large reefs. Cobia on all wrecks that have lots of schooling baits. My favorite eating fish grey trigger chewing goo

Summer is here and the fishing is nothing short of fantastic in the Florida Keys! We had a great tarpon season and that is still going strong and can be good all the way into the Fall! Right now in the summer most of the larger migrating fish have m

We had a pretty strong cold front last week with temperatures in the high 50's. I really was hoping it would spark the sailfish bite but there was just a few here and there for the offshore fleet. The Reel McCoy had 3 releases one trip a handful

Today was like fishing on a pond - the rivers were so still the water was like glass. I met Brian Parent and his friends Pat and Brian up at the north end boat ramp early this morning at dead high tide and we ran over to the outside of Tiger with pl

August is here and things are finally starting to slow down a bit with business as is par for the course this time of year. We are not experiencing any negative effect from the Red Tide on the west coast of Florida - the water is clean and the fish

Back to work today after a day off! I met Brant Kelch his friend Mary and his daughter Kara down at the Big Talbot Island Park boat ramp early this morning and we headed out under some ominous skies - dark and heavy with rain sheets showing to the s

I wrapped up my Georgia Florida week today fishing with Hugh Haston and his buddies Randy and David who were all down for the big game tomorrow. As the week has gone by the weather had gotten better and better and today was the best with just a

The pre-Georgia Florida Football Fishing Week continued today when I again fished with Bob Blalock and his brother-in-law Tommy and his wife Martha. We met up at the north end ramp but this time we made the long run out Bell River with plans to fish