Finally the wind started to come down on time for Jess and Ben to head out with me. This was a fun full day trip where we fished for snook, bonefish and sharks while squeezing in some snapper fishing for dinner. It's always great to fish with Jess and she was eager for Ben to catch a shark, and he did.
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The wind has been blowing but we press on. It was blowing 20-25 MPH today when Peter jumped in the boat and off we went for 6 hours of hiding from the wind and getting him some fish. We started off tarpon fishing but the only spot we could fish didn't hold any tarpon yet so we went bonefishing and Peter hooked a nice fish that came off. Moving on to snook we worked docks and Peter had three bites, hooked one massive snook that broke him off on a piling. Ouch! We wrapped up the trip tarpon fishing with no success.
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Today I had Sally and her two boys for a quick trip to get them fishing. The boys have only fished once before so it was a laid back, keep the rod bent kind of trip and they did well. The boys caught red grouper, snappers, jacks and more. With all the practice they had today they became pros by the end of the trip.
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No time off and no time to celebrate Easter in the traditional way, going to church, but I was giving thanks for all the blessings in my life while fishing with two great guys in the Everglades today. I had Adam and his friend Larry for a full day in the Everglades. The forecast was calling for light winds and when I pulled out of the marina I knew it would be a tough day with the water looking like chocolate milk from the high wind of the following days and super strong tides. Anyway, I took them to a small island I have had good success at for snook and redfish but watch the tides because it gets very shallow very quick and I'd like to go home today. Once there the tide was already half way out allowing me to only fish a third of the island but here the guys quickly got a few snook bites and each scored a snook in rapid succession. To make a long day shorter on this report, it was terrible the rest of the day thanks to the extremely dirty water but we did find some tarpon towards the end of the now half day trip. The problem is that the tarpon were focused on eating tiny inch long shrimp flowing out of a creek and the shrimp and lures we had were nothing like they were eating. Urgh! We went home.
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Stefan and Mark were aboard again today as the guys are getting into the habit of fishing with me every few months. The stated goal was to catch fish and hopefully dinner. As is typical in April, it was windy but we crossed the bay to a channel that I like to fish and set up. However, with the full moon there was so much current it was hard for the trolling motor to stay put so I moved just outside the main current flow and had the guys fan cast to locate the fish. Turns out the fish had the same idea and they were holding just outside the current as well. Here the guys caught all the snapper dinners they wanted and then we moved about 100' looking for yellow jacks. This is where Stefan hooked and fought one about 20lbs before a 200lb lemon shark ran it down and ate it right in front of us before we could react. We wrapped up the trip shark fishing where the guys went 2 for three in about an hour sight casting to the sharks.
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It isn't often that a father/son go fishing and dad doesn't fish so his son can catch all the fish and that is Kelly for you. This is the second or third time we fish and they are always great to be with. Since Billy was the one fishing I took him for snook tossing lures and he got a bite or two but no hook ups so it was time to move on. I took him to the same spot I've been working during the mullet run and it was awesome watching him keep busy fighting a bunch of different species including big ladyfish. As that fishing slowed I took him to a wreck where he was catching mangrove snapper on lures on almost every cast.
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Eugene hadn't used his fly rod for ten years he told me and with the windy conditions it would be tough to do some of the really hard stuff like bonefish on fly. So, we fished the shoreline for snook but they were MIA. Next I took him to an area that has been producing during the spring mullet run and there we stayed for quite a while as Eugene began to have fun catching lady fish, bluefish and a pompano on fly. the trip was wrapped up fishing a wreck in the middle of the bay where he caught grouper, blue runners, snapper and porgy on fly.
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