Cloudy skies and calm seas were on tap yesterday with guests Chris and Julie Rauen of Indiana aboard. We took advantage of the slick conditions to toss a Bagley Finger mullet and CAL gold/glow shad for starters. Despite the abundance of happy mullet the only thing we had to show for our efforts was a [...]
Ladyfish Fishing
Lanark Reds and Wind
Marty Stephens of Evansville, Indiana, was my guest Friday and the morning started out with great promise. It was a little on the cool side as we left the Lanark Village boat ramp for a run to the east. The sound was slick and the breeze non-existent as Marty took his place on the bow [...]
Windy Lanark Success
Wisconsinites Brad Berger and his father-in-law, Mike McCullough, took a day off from their vacation beach-fishing adventures to join me aboard Fin-esse on Tuesday. In typical fashion, the weather-guessers got the forecast wrong. We still managed to make some lemonade anyway. Or in this case, redfish tea. With the seas much choppier than expected we [...]
April 1 thru the 4th Sebastian Fishing
Had a few good trips already this week. I took out Ryan, Michael and Dilan and we fished a nearshore area out of sebastian and caught some jacks, redfish and huge stingrays on the reefs. Fished inshore on Monday and caught redfish on topwater and went to the beach and caught some Blue Runners, Barracuda, [...]
Best of the Big Bend, Florida Fishing in 2011
We had a great 2011 fishing in the Big Bend area of Florida from St. Marks to St. Joe, including St. George and Cape San Blas. We had a year full of catching red drum, sea trout, ladyfish, and cobia, check out some of these highlights.For more information, visit my website.
January Spotted SeaTrout
We have been fishing from the Banana River in Merritt Island to SR 60 in Vero Beach. The big trout have been pretty consistent throughout the last few weeks. We have also been getting a few Reds and a whole bunch of ladyfish. With the grass beds gone, the fish have been hanging around the spoil islands [...]
1/20/12 Monster black drum 30 lbs! And reds! Islamorada, FL
Had John out again on 1/20/12 for a full day of fishing in islamorada florida keys. We left early as usual, 7 AM departure, loaded up with shrimp. Head to the cape area about 30 miles north, the southwestern tip of mainland florida. Many of the deeper creeks and canals are loaded up with redfish, [...]
New Years Day Tarpon
Had a 1/2 day trip on New Years Day with a father, son and his friend from Quebec. It was a 2 boat trip and the plan was to stay close together and fish inshore for Trout, Redfish and Snook. We fished the spoil islands early and managed a few Trout and ladyfish, but the bite was [...]
December 29, 2011
I took Frank and Tony from Sebastian out on Thursday the 29th for a day on the Indian River Lagoon. We started south of Sebastian Inlet and fished some spoil islands. The day after a cold front are always tough and today proved to be no different. The areas holding fish before the front were [...]
December 22, 2011
Had a few good days on the water this last week. The bite is good now in the Sebastian/Vero area. Today we caught around 30 trout with several in the 2-4lb range. We also managed some small redfish and a nice slot sized snook. We have been catching some big Pompano lately, but today we [...]
