Welcome back everyone and it's been a strange spring so far. The typical windy spring days have been few, the air cooler than normal, the mullet run delayed and tarpon have been MIA. Well, that sounds like a downer but in reality it's been good and it's been fun. The first half of the month I have been all over the place, from fly fishing for bonefish, tarpon fishing, shark fishing and mixed bag fishing. Overall it's been good fishing this month. There are permit around and the numbers will grow as it gets warmer, the tarpon fishing has been tough, but the bonefishing has been good with lots of fish on the oceanside flats. I haven't been snook fishing but filling their place have been pompano, jacks, lots of barracudas and the flats have had a ton of lemon sharks for those wanting a cool experience with some hard fighting fish on the flats. To round up the April fishing, ladyfish have been THICK! They have been gobbling up flies, lures and top waters. There have been many trips where we fished for ladyfish for a bit and the clients were having so much fun they didn't want to move on to something else. I can't blame them, they fight hard, jump tons and are really aggressive. Since they are related to the tarpon, I do want to mention that there have been more and more small tarpon showing up and that fishing will just get better. That's it for the first two weeks of April, I'll be back at the end of the month to give you the scoop on what transpired then. Take care guys!
Capt. Mo Estevez
