{"id":1663,"date":"2013-03-09T10:22:59","date_gmt":"2013-03-09T10:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fishthedream.co.uk\/?p=1663"},"modified":"2013-03-09T10:22:59","modified_gmt":"2013-03-09T10:22:59","slug":"the-boys-are-back-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fishthedream.co.uk\/?p=1663","title":{"rendered":"The boys are back"},"content":{"rendered":"

My crew from Bromley are back for what is their 8 th yes 8 th trip it only seems like yesterday their happy faces were at my back door for the first time. Graham, Dave, John and Steve just have it so right they enjoy their fishing what ever it is big or small just match the hatch with the catch as they say. The other day while waiting for shark at the bridge we had fantastic fun with mutton snappers not huge but putting a bend in a light rod and a fish a cast. This years run of blacktip shark has been of the charts and as I have said before on the right rod it does not get any better on one of my Gulf wrecks they all had fish to near and over 100 lb.<\/p>\n

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\"OLYMPUS<\/a>What has come as a surprise to all on this trip has been the temps here in the Florida Keys. This year we started off with record highs in fact breaking an old record having 16 days over 80. The sea temps soared and soon were in the 70’s not what our winter fish wanted at all.Then two very hard cold fronts and wind, water temps dropped 10 degrees in two days back to our normal so I guess the winter fish were confused. This week again has started cold as you can see in the photos but as they say when it gets tough the tough get going what matters it that we are catching fish and having fun.<\/p>\n

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Yesterday the reef was on fire I have never seen so many mackerel and on a coral head in 40 ft they were nailing any thing from fly to jig. With the mackerel came a few shark and Graham had the biggest blacknose I have ever seen in doing fishing holidays for 9 years a solid 32 lbs wow. What happened next will live with me for the rest of my life as some one was catching\u00a0a mac \u00a0the shout went up massive shark. I reeled in the big shark rod then we all saw a very large and hungry dolphin so I said throw it a mackerel. The dolphin turned and soon was taking fish at the side of the boat just amazing and I had it on video.<\/p>\n

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