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Tournaments Twenty-two boats release 79 sails over two days Capt. Travis Dickens led Indigenous to victory in the 2017 Cheeca Lodge and Spa Presidential Sailfish Tournament with eight sailfish releases in two days of fishing.

Well me hearties November ended the way it started with the weather still not settling for “high” season. It also started with Queen Akira the new boat on the “Gottcha” fleet bagging 4 Sails on her inaugural trip to Koh Ha while y

I hope readers of this column were able to participate in the very good Sailfishing which occurred last month during the “Tailing” and “color change” condition. It was the subject of April’s column and though it didn’t

Hot marlin bit continues 5 blue marlin and 21 sails

Limits of yellow fin tuna black fin tuna mahi barracuda and wahoo hit the docks from offshore today. Most of the boats came back in with the flags up on the riggers indicating the releases of blue’s white’s and sails! Nearshore brought in

The Fleece Boys on board today from NC and Maine! Great to be back on the water after a little break thanks in part to weather, slow bookings and unexpected cancelations. We had a slight weather window and the forecast was correct and we made a day

A huge kingfish caught sportfishing in Ft Lauderdale. There’s a good variety of fish biting on the Fort Lauderdale rip.  The little chill spell we had this week got the sailfish frisky.  Sails are biting in 130-180f

Danny had been fishing on the L&H for a very long time.  Today he was joined by his son Daniel and I was very excited about having the next generation along with us.  We got a very early start and were the first ones to leave the marina. &

OFFSHORE- Nicer weather early in the week allowed more people to get offshore; and the reports overall were pretty good. Sailfish action remains consistent; with pretty much everybody putting the kites up seeing at least a few fish and quite a few bo

Fishing for Sails off of the Yucatan was not as good this year.  The bait did not gather as usual.  Arch will try his luck in the Key’s with Pat for a few days and then venture north. The Pelican will begin fishing in late April. 

OFFSHORE- Sailfish action picked back up this week. Teams fishing the Jimmy Johnson "Quest For The Ring" have released well over a hundred sailfish midway through the first day (at time of writing on Thursday afternoon) of competition. Condit

Tournaments Event offers a guaranteed prize purse of over $1 million Nineteen sailfish led to victory for the Asta Sails / Hook Bling team who racked up over $400 000 in prize money in the Jimmy Johnson’s National Billfish Championship…

The first local major sailfish tournament for the season is in the books with 14 boats catching 85 fish in the two day event. Congratulations to Fishheads Tackle Sponsor and LoQueSea for their fist place finish. Sheriff Mike Scott Lee County fishing

Our friends the Bazen family came to fish with us for two days and we had a great time!  The first day was good action with the sails and we picked away at them throughout the day.  Mike fishes with his two boys Sidney and Richard along wit

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JEFF QUICK GROUP 71 SAILFISH & 1 BLUE MARLIN Angel Pala Matt and Dennis Caldwell and Jeff Quick January 12-15 it was great to see Jeff Quick from Tucson Arizona back at the lodge this time fishing with Guatemalan newbies Angel Pala from New Mexico a

Boy, it’s nice to see November roll around.  Slightly cooler temperatures and changing weather patterns signal that it is time to prepare for the heart of our fishing season.  Before any serious fishing can take place, a

Boys on board today set out to catch some fish it was al little choppy and we were attacked by several sails managed to catch a couple also had a couple of wahoo bites that we held onto. as I said it was a little rough and the boys decided to tall it

If we compare October 2021 numbers to 2022’s you will find that fishing was slower than expected – sailfish that is. One thing is for certain the meat fish was not in short supply. The dorado were so thick that at times they wouldn’

Wow is the best way to describe our #fishing right now. In the last 5 days we have landed 18 blue #marlin with the average size being 350lb. We have also seen the biggest #Marlin in my 7 years at … Continue reading →