Friday, January 29, 2021

This was fun! January 23, 2021

 Today I had Amy and her husband on board for a quick 2 hour trip.  Man, were they a blast!  We laugh hard and often as they killed it keeping the rods bent and drags screaming on yellow jacks, snapper, jack crevalles, horse eye jacks, and more.  The two hours went by quick as they competed against each other with Amy definitely having the hot hand.  



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Tuesday, January 26, 2021

I was waiting for this. January 22, 2021

 Guess who was back on board today?  Yes, Jerry!  This time Maggie couldn't join us but off we went lamenting her trip back to the ice and snow.  I've been wanting Jerry to catch snook and we missed on the last trip but today was another opportunity to accomplish that goal.  I took him to the "snook spot" and after a few misc fish he landed his first snook and later upgraded on the size.  Way to go Jerry!  We wrapped up the trip with catching dinner so he could use his fillet knife again.  






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Thursday double and it was great! January 21, 2021

 Work keeps rolling along with two trips today.  My morning trip was with Timothy and his 12 year old Timmy.  These guys fish back home in Michigan but salt water is always different and they had their fill.  Bouncing jigs in the finger channels the guys smoked through bait and caught a ton of fish.  Timmy kept saying this is the most fish he has ever caught, awesome!  When we were done they were worn out and Timmy's hands hurt.  Yes! 



My afternoon trip was with Jerry again with his grand daughter Maggie.  The winds were calm and we were able to fish the tarpon holding off the beach.  That was good!  But, the water was so clear they saw us coming from the marina and we could not buy a bite.  We moved on to the finger channels and they were great with Jerry and Maggie hooking fish on almost every catch.  The bonus?  Jerry was able to break in his new fillet knife he bought knowing he would be able to use it after our trip.  






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Monday Double January 18, 2021

 Work has been crazy busy with today being a perfect example.  After the weekend craziness I had two trips today.  The morning trip was with locals Ray and Manny with the goal to get out on the water and have 12 year old Manny catch fish.  I have to tell you, it was slow.  Manny caught fish, snappers and jacks but most of the spots I fished were slow.  We fished a deeper wreck inside the bay that had a cloud of thousands of snappers on it but they were all small.  We tried for snook in the creeks but that was also slow.  In the end the had a great time and they can't wait to go out again.




In the afternoon, I had John, Johnny and Gianna.  Johnny is a teenager and Gianna is 12 years old and a bit scared of boats and water.  But, we fished a few spots that kept them busy and we kept a few fish for shark bait.  We hit the flats for sharks and the sharks were rolling in but a few at a time and not very aggressive.  The problem?  The tide was super slow and would not move.  This means there is very little to no current and there is no water flow to disperse scent.  Anyway, the tide finally moved a little bit and Johnny finally got his shark.  Now, they're looking at some dates in March to do it again.  






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Keeping the rods bent January 17, 2021

 My trip today was in the afternoon with Anthony and his teenage boys.  What a blast with these guys, Anthony has a bigger then life personality that kept us laughing and having a great time.  They wanted to keep the rods bent so I took them to a channel that has been producing for me and they certainly kept busy with yellow jacks, barracuda, horse eye jacks, jack crevalles, snappers and porgies.  There were a few black tip sharks around but they were being jerks and never hit the perfect bait we had out for them.  



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The girls tore it up! January 16, 2021

 Elisa and Maria were aboard again ready to give it a shot out of Homestead this time.  They are great to fish with and they wanted dinner.  I had about 150 baits in the live well and thought that would be enough.  Well, we fished one spot and one spot only, a shallow wreck in 8 feet of water.  IT WAS ON FIRE!  The ladies caught fish or at least had a bite on every cast for three hours!  In the process they kept enough fish to last them a few weeks.  Maria kept talking about the snook shae caught last time we fished so when we ran out of bait we hit the creeks for snook.  They were there, we saw them, they swam passed us, they said hi but refused to eat.  Urgh, that's snook for you! 




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This was a surprise January 12, 2021

Jerry was back in the boat after 5 years.  He is always a blast to fish with and used to catch tarpon with me during tarpon season.  Being January, that's a little harder to do but we gave it a shot and found a few tarpon but we mixed it up throughout the day.  The fish of the day was a huge sheeps head he caught.  That was very cool!  Jerry also caught yellow jacks, snappers, horse eye jacks and more.  I tried to get him his first snook but they were MIA. 


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