In my opinion if you lose the fun of catching small fish you have lost a part of the fun of fishing. A day on one of our Florida Bay wrecks showed what this was about. We had plenty of sporty shark snapper and grouper but it is great fun to put down a small…
I normally say main tarpon season April, May and June but Rob and his party wanted to have a look so alarms set for 4.30 and off we went. Well we were the only boat on 7 mile bridge so maybe we were a few weeks out but you don’t know till you go so…
Its a funny old game someone once said this could not be truer about running fishing holidays. Rob Shipley and his crew are here on there annual trip to the Florida Keys. This year they have come a bit later to target our spring fish tarpon, dorado ect and maybe get some serious sun. Well…
I have to completely agree with Henry Gilbey now is just not the time for a normal blog. Feelings and thoughts have to go out to all over there. The true scale of the event was brought home on US television the other night. A guy had gone to see how his family had survived…
After one of our breakfast day planing meetings we ended up 11 miles back into Florida Bay one day last week. The number one plan was first catch enough mackerel for a days sharking then off to the mad shark mark going via a wreck. The bay mackerel mark is a large area of bay grass…
Bill my dentist was over last week and despite coming over 4000 miles to the warm and the sun of the Florida Keys his fascination with teeth was still there. Some of the sharpest fish teeth in sea are the king mackerel ones. On the day in the gulf stream while unhooking the one I caught…
My UK dentist Bill family and friends have been here all week lots to blog about. Yesterday we were going to the tuna grounds but bad weather 30 miles offshore meant a slight change of plans. So we decided to troll for dorado, this was on the tick box, and any thing else that came…
This could be just the tonic for a single guy who has always dreamed of big tarpon and permit but has never be able to convince his friends. I know what seems a good idea down the pub or on a charter boat does seem harder to put pass her indoors or the boss. So…
The one thing I like to do on our fishing holidays is for everyone to have fun. Yes big fish are cool and we do big, best well over 1000lbs and most days fish over 100lb are common but you can only catch whats there. I will always tell my guests enjoy or move. We…
Sorry the tarpon and permit week as posted on last blog has gone. As I said these fish get under your skin, as a game fish they have the lot. Big 150lb + jump and run like you cant believe and hard to bring to the boat. I remember when I started fish for them years…