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For August it's not a bad fishing trip when you have overcast skies and just a slight breeze and only one little sprinkle throughout the day. That's what we had yesterday when I fished with Mike Houston his daughter Catherine and his son-in-

Wow what a pretty morning! And it only got better! I met Joanne and Frank Esch down at the Big Talbot Island Park early and we made the short run up the intercoastal and dipped into Jackstaff to begin a slow creep along the marsh line on the very la

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

Boy what a beautiful morning we had today. I had met Grant Hollenbeck and his son Alex down at the south end boat ramp and as we made our first run down to Pumpkin Hill the sun was coming p behind a large cloud and made an awesome view! There was on

April is moving right along and it's been full steam ahead tarpon fishing in the everglades and locally around Islamorada. Fishing has been decent we are just coming off of a late season cold front that made fishing a little slower the last week

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

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

The mornings are just getting better and better since Hurricane Maria passed way off in the Atlantic. Today I met Domenic Ferelli and his friend Bob up at the north end ramp and we made a quick run over to Lanceford Creek with a plan to fish some do

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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