This is what I was waiting for February 5, 2022

When I got to the marina this morning before Grant and his friend jumped aboard I launched the skiff, turned on my Raymarine and saw the water temps at 72 degrees.  Yes!  Armed with flyrods we fished one spot on our 4 hour trip and that's all we needed.  The bonefish woke up and were all over the place.  They were acting extra spooky but the guys had tons of shots and had a number of them track the fly and not eat, even after changing flies a few times.  That's how it goes sometimes but the guys had a great time and at least the fish are back.  Here are a couple of pics of bonefish waking right at us in slick clam conditions.  It was like this the whole trip! 

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A not so good day February 3, 2022

Urgh, that is how I would describe my day with Maria today.  The water temps were about the same so I expected the fish to have acclimated but that was not the case.  It was a dead zone everywhere we fished.  I decided to end the trip early and call it day. Maria was in agreement and now I head home with my head hanging low.  This sucked! 

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Bend the long rod January 31, 2022

I had Maria onboard today and she is always awesome to fish with and a really good fly fisher woman. The plan today was really just to catch whatever species would eat a fly but I was concerned with the low water temps in the mid 60's.  Well, my concern was erased when I took her to the second spot of the trip and there were a bunch of jacks around but the fishing was not on fire as it should've been for this time of year, again, because of the water temps.  

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It almost didn't happen January 28, 2022

It's funny how things work out sometimes.  I had two trips scheduled for tomorrow Saturday but Joe, my morning trip, called and asked if we could fish Friday, today, instead.  I guess he saw the weather forecast of temperatures in the 30's and winds upwards of 30 MPH.  So off we went on Friday morning with his friend Vinnie.  The water temps were back at 70 and the morning was extremely foggy to the point we were limited on where we could go so we stayed close to the marina and went bonefishing.  This is where Vinnie when bonefishing for the first time and he got his first bonefish.  Yes!!!!  The rare fog usually burns off in the first hour but not today, it actually got thicker throughout at the morning at times.  During my trip with Joe and Vinnie, Jon calls me asking what time to meet today.  "Huh, I can today but we're scheduled for tomorrow."  Turns out he had his dates mixed up and the trip was supposed to be today.  No problem.  I wrapped up my trip with Joe and Vinnie catching snappers, although small, on every cast.  

As soon as I dropped off Joe and Vinnie, Jon and Stefan jump aboard and we're off with the fog now cleared but the skies overcast.  Jon was on spin and Stefan on fly and we struck out on bonefish but then they told me they would be happy catching anything.  Cool!  I took them to a wreck, set up and watched Jon catch yellow jacks, big blue runners, snappers and a few big mystery fish while the fish ignored Stefan's fly, they don't usually.  Once Stefan picked up a spinning rod it was on as all fish were caught on lures and they took home plenty to eat.  

By the evening and the following day the weather was horrible so the schedule change worked out.  

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It's cold! January 25, 2022

Man it's been cold with the latest cold front being unusually cold and driving down the water temps to the low 60's, not good!  Along for the ride today was Steve and his son.  They wanted to try for bonefish so I took them to a shallow point I like and try to work the deeper edge where there should be slightly warmer water but I warned them it would be tough.  Well, they went 0-2 on bonefish during our morning trip and landed a bonnet head shark.  It wasn't what I would have liked but at least they hooked two nice bones in spite of the blistering cold water temps.  

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This has been tough! January 24, 2022

Wow, this is incredible!  In January I am usually swamped with work and very few days off but not January 2022.  Between the surging Omicron virus and the flight cancelations due to the virus travel has come to a stand still and I was off for about two weeks, just crazy.  Well, today I was back to work with Ruven who has fished with me before.  He usually likes to throw lures only and we do well.  The same today but the start was slow as I took him to a few different places that have worked for me recently.  At one spot there were a bunch of snook but with lower than normal water temps they were not willing to play as they focused on warming up.  Towards the end of the trip we decided to use the live shrimp I had in the live well and things got good with non stop action on mahogany snapper, yellow jacks and more.  

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January 10, 2022

 Today I fished with Ethan again and he brought his friend Nathan.  We started off looking for snook but they were MIA and then we switched to fishing to make sure Nathan caught some fish, and he did!  The guys ended up having a nice trip with a bunch of varieties and plenty of action catching snappers, yellow jacks, big blue runners, shark and more.  

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