With the last week of our season started Fish the Dream shuts down for the main part of the hurricane season. We have fished on in early years but one year we had to evacuate four times and with guests and a disabled wife it is just not worth the hassle. With deck temps in…
What a week John has just had did I make the right choice for him to run Fish the Dream when I had to come back to the UK or what. Keep with John at www.riverworks.co.uk After a fantastic year what with the exploits of Henry Gilbey and friends and too many ticked boxes, first…
Its nice to have a party on a fishing holiday that like to mix it up and don’t fish 25/8. Don’t get me wrong I am as hardcore as the next guy but some times it helps me out to mend broken tackle and fettle the engines etc. When I first met John Slater he…
While on the grouper wreck with the Slater group the other week Jamie had a fish on the medium ledger rod. The fish made long hard runs shark like but as he had no wire on no bite offs. What gave the fish away was every so often is would stop and be hard to…
If there is on fish in the Florida Keys that gets the cry OH MY GOD its got to be the goliath grouper. We have been very lucky with these fish during our fishing holidays. It took some years to get it right but now we get big and I mean up to 400lb back…
If the amberjack is known as the wreck donkey its cousin the jack crevalle is know as the street fighter. This member of the jack family is responsible for many a smile for people on our fishing holidays. Not during the fight as they DON’T know the word game over but when the fight is…
As you may or not know we use crabs for the tarpon at 7 mile bridge most old school guides still use mullet as there number one bait. So crab versus mullet, well mullet are a very good bait but in my opinion have a few problems they are best when just caughtand as we…
I am back in the UK for my summer break [ to heal cuts and bruises ] but what a last session many boat PB’s and fishing of the charts. The fishing holidays are now being run by my friend and top skip John Aplin check out how he is doing at www.riverworks.co.ukif he has…
If there is one fish that light up people on fishing holidays in the Florida keys or locals on a charter or just out on there own it is the cobia. These hard fighting fish tick all the boxes for most people, long hard runs and can fight deep with great stamina. They also…
Last week during Lee’s fishing holiday his friend Alan had a fine popano on a shallow gulf wreck and the next day Lee had a good permit on a deep water wreck in the Atlantic so its interesting to compare the two similar fish.The pompano has a forehead that slopes back gently, the tail fin…