Friday, January 2, 2009

Made in Florida: Anchors

Florida Sport Fishing Mission Objective: Investigate & Reveal

Wonder what goes into manufacturing the tackle, gear and accessories we all use today? Anglers often take for granted the tremendous effort it requires to engineer, design and build all of the equipment and countless components which combine to enhance our boating and sport fishing experiences.



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Thursday, July 24, 2008

Fort Pierce & Stuart
East Central
Written by Capt. Joe Ward
INSHORE and OFFSHORE fishing reports
JULY 24, 2008
INSHORE - The tarpon bite has been good just inside the Ft. Pierce Inlet, at Big Mud Creek and to the north it has been around the Moorings. Most of the fish have been between 20 and 70 pounds and taking a live mullet at first light. Try a D.O.A. Bait Buster if you can't find any mullet. The trout bite continues to be steady just before first light and again just before dark. In the morning try a top water bait or just after daylight switch to a live shrimp.

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Lake St. Clair Fishing Reports from Michigan
Top Destination
Written by Captain Frank Piku
July 24th, Lake St. Clair Fishing Report From The Michigan Side

MICHIGAN FISHING REPORT

Don’t believe the weather man all the time. This Wednesday called for NNW winds 10mph,possible thunderstorms late afternoon. Not a bad forecast, should be a nice cool day!!! WRONG!!! When we hit the mouth of the Clinton River winds were whipping the top of the waves like whipping cream. "Golden Streaker" took off on a plane and ate up these seas. Rolling along at 45mph we reached our first fishing stop in big seas. Non the less everyone was anxious to catch the big ones.

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West Coast Long-Range
West Central
Written by Viking Fleet

July 24th, 2008

14yr old lands swordfish!
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Panama City - Saltwater Fishing Report
Northwest
Written by Capt. Rob Womble

July 23, 2008

Panama City Fishing!!! Trout, Sharks, Pompano, Triple Tail

OK well the Tarpon and Triple Tail wasn't exactly caught in Panama City but it was close enough to call it. The fishing has been pretty good over the last couple weeks. We have been busy running trips and fishing in our spare time. What are we catching…… almost everything on the flats and near the beach.

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Indian River, St. Lucie River & offshore
East Central
Written by Capt. Kevin Drennan

July 23, 2008

The summer fishing pattern has taken hold and the variety of species available to anglers are staggering. It seems that when one bite slows another gets red hot. Cobia and big bull sharks have been all over the Bull Shark Reef south of the St. Lucie Inlet. It is loaded with sardines has been one of the main places to get bait. We have caught a lot of cobia there although a lot of them are under the slot size of thirty three inches to the fork. If we are in doubt of the fish being a keeper, we net it rather than kill an undersized fish with a gaff. We fought a bull shark for an hour the other day before we cut it off near the boat. These fish are as powerful as they come and will tire any angler out.

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Pensacola - Navarre - Perdido Key
Northwest
Written by Capt. John Rivers

july 22th, 2008

Red snapper are plentiful and so are the kings.

Fishing has been very good the past few days, but now we have a tropical storm in the gulf named Dolly, which will keep me in the bay for the next few days, because the swells out in the gulf and along the beaches are anything but swell.

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Port St Lucie & Fort Pierce
East Central

Written by Capt. Charlie Conner

July 21, 2008

INSHORE:

Summertime on the Indian River.....It's a wonderful time of year. Lots of afternoon thunderstorms have brought much needed rain to the area this year. You have to plan your trips carefully to get out and beat the odds of getting wet. The water has remained remarkably clear in spite of all the wet weather out there. Fishing picked up the latter part of the week and we enjoyed catching a variety of fish around the river.

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Manatee River, Tera Ceia Bay, Tampa Bay
West Central

Written by Capt. TJ Stewart

July 21th, 2008 Tampa Bay area fishing report

Summertime fishing in the Bay!

It’s summertime in Florida! We Floridians know what that means…the rainy season. One thing you can count on in the summertime in Florida is rain. Hey… at least it cools you off. Despite the rain, the fishing has been outstanding.. This year has been a bit different than ones in the past. One thing that has been different is that we have had a heck of a time with bait. There is more bait than any fisherman would want, but it is small. That is one of the great things about fishing with a guide –they are the ones working hard to catch bait.

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Boca Grande to Charlotte Harbor
Southwest

Written by Capt. Van Hubbard

7-21-08 fishing report by Captain Van Hubbard.

My faith and hope has been rewarded with better fishing.

I sincerely believed we would have some good fishing, excuse me catching, when our weather finally straightened out and it’s time to Go Fishin’ now. Tarpon are still here and we enjoyed great action yesterday. Redfish, snook, and trout fishing is the best it’s been in years, maybe even decades. No signs of red tide for over a year and fish are rebounding better than ever from the bad years of “05 and 06”. Baitfish are at all time highs, minnows by the millions up and down our Gulf coast. Yes, the weather is unpredictable but fishing, that is catching, is more consistent than it’s been for a very long time. You will need to get lucky on the weather and stronger tides are usually more productive. One example contrary to this is the mangrove snapper fishery and it is best on slow current flows. The snapper are more abundant than ever too. Some Spanish are around but we have not had time to pursue em.

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Southeast Florida Fishing Report
Southeast

Written by Capt. Dean Panos

July 21, 2008

If you enjoy dolphin fishing in the Gulfstream, then you need to get out there now. The dolphin fishing for the last two weeks has been about as good as it can get, I was lucky enough to have charters almost every day this past week and we caught dolphin on every trip. Most of the schools of dolphin have been under birds but with flat calm seas all week, there has been a build of Sargasso weedlines and some floating debris as well. The individual fish in each school can vary in size, but most of the fish are well above the minimum size. The size of the schools has been impressive. Most of the schools we found this week had well over 100 fish per school. The schools of dolphin have been anywhere from 7 to 20 miles offshore. With the rising costs of gas, I have not really seen many boats out there. In a way that’s OK since the fish haven’t been harassed by a lot of boats and are eager to eat just about anything you throw at them.

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Mosquito Lagoon Fishing Report
East Central
Written by Capt. Chris Myers

July 21, 2008
Mosquito Lagoon Fishing Report

Casting to Tailing Reds

Summer has continued to bring some outstanding fishing to east central Florida. Large redfish, big tarpon, and plenty of trout have made for some great days of catching in the Mosquito Lagoon and Indian River.With water levels still extremely low last week, the fish were concentrated and the redfish action was about as good as it gets.

Last Monday, I was joined by Bob and his two sons, Tyler and Matt. Within ten minutes of leaving the ramp, 15 year old Matt was hooked up to a twenty pound redfish.

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Titusville, and Indian River Lagoon area
East Central

Written by Rocky Van Hoose

July 21, 2008 - Running with the Bulls

Each year in Pamplona, Spain there is a famous festival which features crazed thrill-seekers running with snorting bulls through the narrow streets of the ancient city. Each summer, in the Indian River, we experience a similar adrenaline rush with our own brand of bulls – bull reds and bull sharks.

Yesterday, joining Capt. Peter and me were Rob and Rick, two veteran anglers from the Orlando area. They sought the thrill of tangling with the ill-tempered bull reds resident on the shallow flats of the river near Titusville. The redfish did not disappoint. Among the seven redfish fought and caught was a monster 51 inch, 38 pound bull which ran Rob up and down the river for an exhausting hour before finally being subdued. This fish, pictured below, ranks as one of the largest landed in our area this summer.

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Guatemala Fishing
Top Destination

Written by Guatemala Fishing
July 21, 2008

SEASON SUMMARY
Thank You to all of our valued clients and friends - both old and new - who came to Guatemala this year to participate in some SPECTACULAR fishing !

We started in earnest in October 2008 with an exceptionally strong Blue Marlin bite. We don't usually target marlin, as we are pulling smaller teasers at 6/7 knots for Sailfish - but despite this, we were consistently raising Marlin in the 25-450lb range. It makes for some frantic activity and necessary teamwork from all aboard to co-ordinate getting the rigged 50wt in front of the fish before it loses interest in the ballyhoo - but we managed it (most of the time !) - and several groups landed (ie. leader touched) good sized Blues.

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Marathon and FL Keys Keys Written by Capt. Chris Johnson

July 21, 2008

Exclusive Report
Capt. Chris Johnson took SeaSquared Charters regular customers Don Rodgers and Dan Dudley for a three quarter day of dolphin fishing. With a report of 5 to 10 knot winds, they were surprised to find it was actually blowing 15 to 20 knots in the morning with seas of 4 to 6 feet. Not exactly the conditions they were expecting but they persevered and chugged their way offshore. Within minutes of passing the reef line they found birds working some dolphin in the weeds. They put the lures out and immediately hooked up but something very strange happened.

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Pensacola Bay, Choctawhatchee Bay
Northwest
Written by Capt. Eddie Woodall

July 21st 2008 Fishing Report.

Perdido Key, Pensacola, Gulf Breeze, Navarre, Fort Walton Beach, Destin Florida fishing report.

Well, what can I say about the last two weeks that most of you don't already know? The fishing is just fantastic. The weather has been just as good. The King Mackerel bite has not been in close. What I’ve been having to do is ease out to some of the near shore artificial reefs. It seems that the combination of west winds and the Mississippi River flood water runoff it has the water here dirty and it’s cooled the water down a couple of degrees also. This has also given the fall Cobia run a kick start. I’ve been seeing them on just about every trip and catching one here and there. I had a report from Capt. Pat Dineen in Destin that he’s seen a good number of Cobia around East Pass over the last two weeks also. The Snapper bite is still good. I’m catching lots of Mangrove and Red Snapper in the 75 foot range of water depth (six to eight miles out), this seems to be the line where the water is clearing up also.

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Cabo San Lucas, Mexico Top Destination Written by Capt. George Landrum

FLY HOOKER SPORTFISHING, Cabo Fish Report July 21, 2008

WEATHER : Summer time is back with temperatures in the mid to high 90’s most of the week. On Wednesday it was reported by a friend that at his house in town his weather machines reported 100 degrees and 100% humidity! Thank goodness that most of the week has been cooler than that! In the evenings it has cooled off to the mid 80’s with a slight breeze. On Thursday we had a band of clouds move through the area and they brought some rain with them, accompanied by lightning and thunder early in the day. The rain was not heavy, here at my house it was enough to spot the car windows, but out to the north it rained pretty well, there were reports of an inch in Todo Santos and La Paz.

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Flats Fishing Report for Key West Area
Keys

Written by Captain Lenny Leonard

June 21, 2008

June ending up being a great month for tarpon fishing in Key West. The ocean side fishing was fantastic. Plenty of fish to be hooked. I say hooked, because in all actuality, you land 20% of the tarpon you hook. The number on reason for loosing tarpon is angler error. No, not everyone is a poor fisherman; however, what is required to catch a tarpon on conventional and or fly tackle goes well beyond traditional fish.
The genetic structure of a tarpon mouth is solid bone covered in flesh. These fish eat everything from shrimp, crabs, to squid and bait fish. There mouth is not extensively sensitive to getting stuck by foreign object, so the likely of the eating the fly or the bait and then dropping it before you feel them is eminent. They just never feel the hook so they don’t always react, a turn and run directly away, thus causing a proper tight line to hook to fish scenario. This is the first problem.

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Jacksonville and Surrounding Areas
Northeast

Written by Capt. James Howard

July 21st, 2008

The tide was right and the water was clean for a little 3am to day break gigging trip this past Wednesday morning July the 16th. No charter that morning so I was going Flounder gigging no matter what…

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Miami Area
Southeast

Written by Capt. Jim Barlett

July 17th, 2008 Southeast Florida Fishing Report
I hope everyone survived the 4th of July festivities with all their fingers and other body parts in tact!
Since my last report I took Tony and his daughters, Britney, Bliss, and Brigitte out for a day of fishing. First order of business was to collect some live bait. We collected up a good supply of Hardtails, and made our way offshore. As I crossed the edge, Devon already had 2 lines out and we immediately picked up a pair of Bonito. These Boneheads were small and we considered rigging them but opted for a release instead. I continued offshore as Devon ran a 6 line spread. It had been a while since the planer rod had a solid hook up but that was not the case on this day. The 50W Tiagra started running off. Several minutes later Tony landed a nice 22# Wahoo.

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Fort Pierce & Stuart
East Central

Written by Capt. Joe Ward

INSHORE and OFFSHORE fishing reports

JULY 17, 2008

INSHORE - Not much change in fishing patterns this time of year. Fish early or late and save the middle of the day for a nap. Still, the best action is the trout, jacks and ladyfish and they all are hitting on top water baits at first light. Try Bear Point or the flats just north of Harbor Branch. I had god reports of redfish this week with some of them coming from around Jack Island area and some coming from the docks along South Indian River Drive. At both places the fish are being very picky. The best results are coming from small live crabs. The catch and release snook action has been good in the Ft. Pierce Inlet for anglers using greenie's fished on the bottom at the tide changes. The snapper were scattered over the weekend with a few here and a few there Most were caught along the channel edges on a small live shrimp -- that is if you were lucky enough to find some.

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Middle KeysKeys Written by Capt. Dave Navarro

Fishing report for 7-17-08 from D. M. Navarro @ the World Class Angler in Marathon.

Tired of going out and getting burned? Not so much by the fish as the sun that is. It’s just plain hot! It makes it tough to go fishing unless you keep moving trolling. For those bottom fishing, it is tough to stay out in the sun without getting so exhausted that you don’t want to go again the next day. I have some suggestions for you.

Night fishing. It is fun, adventurous, cooler and very productive. Most of the bottom fish feed predominately at night as well. You usually find the larger fish of the species that you are targeting at night than in the daytime. The bite is usually faster and more fish will come up to the boat as well. All in all, it is the best time to bottom fish.

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Wednesday, July 2, 2008

Sarasota
West Central
Written by Capt. Bob Smith


Captain Bob Smith Fishing Report


July 1st, 2008 Sarasota Florida Fishing Report By Capt. Bob Smith


Sarasota Florida Fishing Report By Capt. Bob Smith


This past week was good on the bay! Whale Key shoal and Helicopter shoal just outside of Buttonwood Harbor has produced plenty of nice size spotted sea trout to 24" and bluefish to up three pounds. Bluefish, jacks and ladyfish blew up on the large schools of very small baitfish, causing the water to boil and the numerous birds to attack from above.

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Jake Jordan's Fishing Adventures

Keys Written by Capt. Jake Jordan


Captain Jake Jordan


Last Florida Keys Tarpon Report
June 20, - 27, 2008

Greetings from Tarpon World:

My 98 year old Mom and I are heading home to North Carolina tomorrow morning, My truck is packed, and the skiff is cleaned and has the cover tied down to the trailer ready for travel. This was a good Tarpon season weather wise although we has lots of wind and clouds I fished 66 out of 75 days which were booked. Seems that we did pretty good as most of my clients have already begun booking dates for next years Tarpon Season.


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Amelia Island

Northeast Written by Capt. Dave Sipler


Captain Dave Sipler


7-1-08 - HUGE CHANGE!


Had Dan Kelly and his two sons out for a day of pulling on big fish. So I hoped.


But like a 6th sense, I just had a funny feeling this morning. It was cooler, which is always welcomed. But just felt different than, last Thursday. If you aren't sweating hard at 8am in the heat, it's just not a typical late June day on the water. Greenies at the rocks, were the usual hunt and peck, to catch them.

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Sarasota Bay & Nearby Areas

West Central

Written by Capt. Terry Frankford


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Fishing Report 07/01/2008 – Capt. Terry Frankford


Angler's aboard the Reelin and Chillin have been catching, trout, redfish, mangrove snapper, pompano, permit, and bluefish, to name a few more popular species.


When I have the time to cover many of my favorite locations, sooner or later one or more of these will produce. This proved true with four angler's out on a full day trip. We would hit a spot, fish for a few minutes, if we had action we would stay - if not we would move on. All angler's managed a respectable catch, Andria started off with a nice trout around eighteen inches caught just at the north end of Quick Pt. where the flats met with the channel.

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Miami Area

Southeast

Written by Capt. Jim Barlett


Captain Jim Barlett

July 1st, 2008 Southeast Florida Fishing Report


The month of June was about as up & down as we have seen in a while. Air temperatures, winds, clouds, rain, created a day by day scenario on the fishing. One day you’re a hero and the next day you’re working hard to keep from being a zero. This report will give a brief overlay of the type of trips we had this past month and their outcome.

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West Coast Long-Range

West Central Written by Viking Fleet


Viking Fleet


July 1st, 2008

Capt. Rich reported completely INSANE fishing on Thursday’s 16 Hour Special American Red Snapper Extended Day trip. All anglers aboard met their limit of American Reds, and released loads of them up to 15 pounds.


They also managed to catch a handful of amberjacks up to 30lbs, lane, mangrove and yellow tail snapper as well as assorted gag and red grouper. Capt. Rich had decided to take the chance by making a long trip and it was worth it!

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Naples, Ft. Myers, and Bonita Beach

Southwest

Written by Capt. Dave Hanson


Captain Dave Hanson


07-01-08

Fishing Report


Fishbuster Charters’ Captain Dave Hanson reported, “Tuesday morning, I fished 14 miles west of New Pass with Mike and Noreen Weber and Bill and Gail Carlson. We had lots of action and variety all morning, using live shrimp. Catches included three keeper hogfish, two at 13 inches and one at 14 inches, Spanish mackerel to 24 inches (we kept two and released three), ten whitebone porgies, of which we kept three, fifteen keeper mangrove snapper, and grunts. We released gag grouper shorts to 18 inches, red grouper to 19 inches, triggerfish, and a 15 inch mutton snapper.


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Cocoa Beach & Merritt Island

East Central

Written by Capt. Ron Presley


Captain Ron Presley


July 1st, 2008


Banana River Producing a Variety of Fish

It’s been nice to have a few mornings without the wind blowing so hard. All spring has been characterized by high winds that tend to make the fishing tough. Well, this week was much better and made for enjoyable days on the water.


Rip Tide plastic baits have produce well this week on a variety of fish. Trout, jacks, and bluefish all ate them well. My overall favorite remains the 3 inch Rip Tide Mullet, but the Flats Chub and the Curtailer have also produced fish.

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Indian River Lagoon Coast

East Central Written by Capt. Tom Van Horn

Captain Tom Van Horn


July 1st, 2008 Indian River Lagoon Coast Fishing Report

Compliments of Mosquito Creek Outdoors



The summer doldrums held fast this past week on the east central coast of Florida with hot calm days providing for some assumes sight fishing conditions. Although the fishing conditions were magnificent, the catching wasn't great. We did manage some assume fish, but it feels like a bit of cold water (Labrador Current) may be starting to push in. The bait this week was in very close to the beach making it tough to catch, and the inshore kingfish were few and far between. "

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Cabo San Lucas, Mexico

Top Destination Written by Capt. George Landrum


Captain George Landrum


FLY HOOKER SPORTFISHING, Cabo Fish Report July 1st, 2008


WEATHER We are now back into summer mode. Our daytime highs have been in the mid to high 90’s and the nighttime lows have been a warm 80 degrees. Thank goodness the humidity has not gotten high yet, wait another two week for that. We had clear skies this week, for the most part, and the winds we were dealing with all day long every day last week were only blowing later in the afternoon this week.

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Middle Keys

Keys

Written by Capt. Dave Navarro


Captain Dave Navarro


Fishing report for 7-2-08 from D. M. Navarro @ The World Class Angler in Marathon.


Another holiday weekend is upon us. This is the big one for the summer and we can expect quite a few visitors down not only for the festivities but also for the fishing. It is fantastic weather for them as well as you. If you have been fishing lately, you know what I mean.


The dolphin offshore have been plentiful. The hottest areas have been around 12 miles from the reef. This has been good for days and days with plenty of large school dolphin in the 5 to 9 pound range. There have been scattering of big fish as well. Wahoo have been running fairly well along the 300-foot range for those with fast trolled lures.


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Lower Keys Fishing Report

Keys


Written by Captain Andrew Tipler


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July 1st, 2008


Lower Keys Fishing Report

Winds were up this past week and it made for happy fish. The seas were a little lumpy but there were plenty of places to hide from the wind and have a good day. Our little part of the word offers fantastic fishing possibilities no matter the winds. There are good choices no matter the direction and intensity of the wind.


We spent two days in the gulf hiding from strong SE winds. We found big sharks more than eager to eat our bonito sides. Shark fishing is a blast when you use the appropriate tackle. I like to keep a few spinning outfits loaded with braid. I keep one thirty pound outfit with a short leader and a small piece of bait at the ready for smaller sharks.

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Apalachicola Inshore and Offshore

Northwest Written by Sandra Allen


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July 1st 2008


Hot Fishing in Paradise by Sandra Allen Book Me A Charter Guide Service Apalachicola, FL

Planning a vacation to St. George Island, Cape San Blas, Mexico Beach or Port St. Joe? - Join us!


July, expect hot and steamy weather with an occasional afternoon thunderstorm as the weather heats up this month. Drench yourselves in sunscreen drink plenty of fluids and get out to explore our unique and beautiful area. Go fishing, bird watching, exploring the coast or try your hand at scalloping in St. Joe Bay or Lanark Village area waters in the Apalachicola Bay. There are loads of things to do and see in our beautiful area. While here why not go- sight seeing in the Apalachicola Bay or River with one of our native guides.


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Port St Lucie & Fort Pierce

East Central Written by Capt. Charlie Conner


Captain Charlie Conner


July 1st, 2008


July Fishing Forecast


July brings hot weather, afternoon rains and Fourth of July parties. Oh....and lots of great fishing out there,too! Mornings on the river will bring action at first light on top water lures for snook or trout on the flats. They will seek deeper water as the sun rises. I will be fishing along the mangroves for snook with jigs, twitch baits and spoons where the water will be 2-3 feet deep. Trout will move to deeper flats in 2-6 feet of water and will most likely hit pinfish, pigfish or live shrimp.

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Bonita Springs to Pine Island Sound

Southwest Written by Capt. John "GiddyUp" Bunch


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By 11AM, it is smokin' hot in SW FL. We have been getting creamed with early AM and PM thunder storms. No extra charge for lightening!

Anyway, fishing has been pretty good with a few tarpon still hanging around.


Snook: Lots of snook on the beach and lots of snook on the way to the beach. Finding bait remains a HUGE DEAL for many guides. It is tough to explain. Remember catch and release through the summer.


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Thursday, June 26, 2008

Florida Fishing Reports for 6-26-08

Fort Pierce & Stuart East Central Written by Capt. Joe Ward

INSHORE and OFFSHORE fishing reports


JUNE 26, 2008






INSHORE - The catch and release snook action has been good just before daylight around the lighted docks along Indian River Drive. We had several fish over the slot. Try free lining a live bait like a pinfish or a pigfish. The trout fishing has also been good at first light and just before dark. The bigger fish are taking live mullet fished in 4 to 6 feet of water just off the edges of the flats. Try the area around Big Mud Creek. I am still getting reports of good catches of snapper along the channel edges and in the Ft. Pierce Inlet and a live shrimp has been the way to go. And, if you are looking for some fun just take a small silver spoon and find the schools of spanish mackerel and bonita that are coming in the Inlet.

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West Central Written by Capt. TJ Stewart


June 26th, 2008


Hard work in Tampa Bay pays off!


Hard work definitely pays off, and that is a good thing because the weather hasn’t been the best over the past couple of weeks. It’s summertime in Florida, which is also known to us natives as the rainy season. We’ve put a lot of hard work into running from the rain, but it was well worth the running because the fishing before and after storms has been very good. If you’re out on the water in the summertime in Florida, you better pack your foul weather gear because you can bet that you’ll see rain showers before the day is up. It can be a real nuisance sometimes, but look at it this way…at least it cools you down a little.



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Boca Grande to Charlotte Harbor


Southwest


Written by Capt. Van Hubbard


6-26-08 report Captain Van Hubbard.


It’s been busy and we are enjoying good fishing.


Weather is still a big factor but fishing has been good. Lot’s of tarpon and some big ones. The tarpon are plentiful and cooperating when the winds let us locate em. Crabs are still hard to find but we have been successful thanks to local knowledge. It helps to live here and know the fishermen and crabbers. Threadfins are abundant and the Sabiki rigs are your best bet. Sometimes they are thick enough to cast net but it’s challenging.


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Miami Beach


Southeast


Written by Capt. Bouncer Smith


June 26th, 2008 Southeast Florida fishing report


We left off in our last report with Heather Harkavy catching a pending world record Almaco jack of 31.5 pounds. This fish was only 2 ounces off the 50 pound tackle record but is 9 pounds better than the standing junior female angler record.


After Heather's trip we headed for Bimini with Roberta, Marty and Martini Arostegui. We were on a fish scavenger hunt. We wanted IGFA species for Roberta IWFA species list and grey snappers on fly. Roberta caught 4 new species, rainbow runner, cero mackerel, horse eye jack and little tunny.



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Pine Island Sound to Sarasota Bay


Southwest


Written by Capt. Butch Rickey


June 26th 2008


It was a vacation week for me, but I did run one trip with Harry Krukenberg and his daughter Allison, from the great state of Ohio. I first fished with Harry and Aly last summer, along with his Dad Herman. They were great folks, and I wouldn't have passed up a chance to fish with Harry and Aly again. I was disappointed to hear that Harry wasn't able to make it for this trip.


Our trip was on Wednesday, and I had been off to weddings in Georgia, and such, and not on the water in almost two weeks. There were only a handful of guides at the ramp, and they all told me there was no bait to be had save for some big threadfins under the bridge or tiny little new hatch shiners that aren't big enough to toss. Not what I wanted to hear!

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Tampa Bay’s South Shore


West Central


Written by Capt. Fred Everson


June 26th 2008


Typical summer weather this week with rain and wind punctuated by periods of calm. I checked the Gulf water temperature on Friday morning and it was 90 degrees. The tides were moving around the full moon earlier this week, and the bite was fair.


Thursday I tried to get out early in the morning with my fishing buddy Keli Emery, but we had to wait out some steady rain. We finally donned rain gear and headed into Little Cockroach Bay with some frozen threadfin herring. This is redfish candy, frozen or fresh, but the trick to using frozen bait is to keep it on ice and cut it up one bait at a time.

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Friday, May 30, 2008

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Wednesday, May 28, 2008

Southeast Florida Fishing Report


Captain Dean Panos



May 27th, 2008 Southeast Florida Fishing Report



In the last report, I mentioned that we would be heading to the Bahamas for a few trips and we went to Bimini twice. We didn’t have absolutely banner trips, but we did catch fish and we had great people on board both times. The fishing on the first trip was a little bit slow. We should have trolled all day because the guys that went trolling instead of bottom fishing came back with some impressive catches of big dolphin (up to 68 pounds) as well as some blue marlin releases. Our second trip we went to one of my honey holes and found some incredibly big yellowtail snappers. These snappers were all of 3 to 5 pounds and would pull drag on 20 pound outfits.




We also did well with the cero mackerels. We tried for the muttons up front of Bimini but didn’t stay at it for a long time. All in all though, good people, good weather and being in the Bahamas made it all worthwhile. I am heading back to the Bahamas in a few weeks and will be there for the better part of June. I still have some opening for June and plenty of openings in July and August, so if you want to experience some island fishing and island time, let me know so we can set it up.



On this side, the fishing is actually very good. There are still a lot of sailfish around and we have had a steady kingfish bite every morning and late afternoon. Our best day sailfishing we caught 8 out of 12 sails. I had a good customer on board that has fished we me a lot, and he even commented on this being our best sailfish trip and it’ s not really prime sailfish season either. Also there have been quite a few blackfin tunas around, especially in the late afternoon. One of my friends caught 14 blackfins in one afternoon, and I heard of a few others with 8 and 10 blackfins per day, so we are really seeing a big push of these fish move into our area.



There have not been a lot of dolphin reports. I think with fuel approaching $5.00 a gallon at the marinas, many are not running out into the Gulfstream looking for them. On both our crossing to the Bahamas, we didn’t see much debris or bird activity in the Stream, and the debris we did find, only held tripletails on it. No doubt though, the dolphin will show up and as soon as they do, many will hed out in search of them.



I did do one nighttime swordfish trip and we had no luck. We had a perfect drift with good baits, but never had a bite all night. I did hear that the daytime sword bite has picked up so I am rigged and ready, so give me a call.


That’s it for now, get out there and make some memories and catch them up.




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Tight Lines, Capt. Dean Panos








Capt. Dean Panos

Double D Charters

16486 SW 70th Street

Pembroke Pines, FL 33331

Phone: 954-680-5004

Email: doubledcharters@earthlink.net

Website: http://doubledcharters.com/

Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Patrick Dempseys interview on The Late Show with David Letterman

Patrick Dempseys interview on The Late Show with David Letterman, where they talk about Patrick Dempsey being on the cover of the spring Destination Fish Magazine.





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