These have been the two best months I have personally every seen for sightfishing redfish. When the conditions were right the reds were there in good numbers.
Sightfished Everglades style
Here is Jen with one of many we sightfished on fly this fall.
Way to go Ian!!
Ian with a perfect redfish on fly. Jen and Ian fished with me off and on for a week and we had a blast. We had one day where we caught 12 snook and 6 or 7 redfish. When it is good it is good right Jen!! Look forward to fishing with you guys for a week or so in April. Got you in the books!!!
Hooked and lost a few but not this beauty
We fished as Hurricane Irene pasted to the east of southwest Florida. Bringing some strong westwinds and extreme high tides. However, we still managed to catch Snook,redfish and this tarpon during the three days we fished. The smaller tarpon 20-50lb were around and we had a hard time keeping them on past the first jump. James Overturf caught this wonderful tarpon on the 7wt.. Fun times!!
Really busy month but just wanted to thank everyone who fished with me this past month. We caught lots of tarpon and caught some big snook. Here are a few pictures from April.
One day we spent sometime snook and redfishing and end up with this nice red.
Dr. Williams fished with me for a week and landed this nice redfish and hook 10 tarpon and landed a few over the second week in April. We did a video of two of the tarpon fights and will try and collaborate with the good Doctor to see if we can post the videos. I just need sometime.
Beat had two days with me and we had the leader on this 100lb tarpon and lost two others in dramatic fashion.
The judge's 100lb tarpon taking us up the Shark River for 45 minutes before the line broke. We hooked 5 on this day!!
We really had a great April with an average of two hookup a day on Big tarpon. May has started out the same way with some big snook that broke off and landed and we got a few nice tarpon in the boat during the first week in May. June is open for fishing and in the past has been fantastic. Leaving the dock around 5:30 and returning after lunch is the usual trend. This is the best month for a Grand Slam (Tarpon, snook, redfish) in the same day. May is booked up but June has a few days open still. Get in on the action.
All Ready touch the leader and Got the DNA for BTT Research
Big fish around and are eating well!!!! Just ask Alan!
End of the fight March 21st
Roy's tarpon right before we landed it
The last two days we had a real push of big fish move in and Roy MacDowell III was here for the Tarpon of a lifetime. A 140+ class fish maybe bigger.We even got the BTT DNA sample on this one. Alan Macpherson fished with me yesterday and we land one bigger after an 1 hour fight. I will try and get those photos in ASAP. Just really busy!! More to come.. I still have some days open the last week of March..
The big tarpon have moved in and on certain tides are all over the place. Hooked and landed one yesterday around 150+. Laidup photo will be coming. This is a photo of my good friend James and his tarpon landed on the 9wt.Come on down and get in some of this action!!!
Nice tarpon
Big snook in February
nice bass
February was a good month for solid keeper snook. We broke off or had big snook follow without taking the lure or fly. This day we hooked three big snook and landed this dandy 32″. The others broke our lines. Wow the Everglades can seem dead and then it comes alive suddenly without a moments notice. This snook was the smallest one in the school of 10 or so snook… Tarpon were free jumping behind us but we decided to stay with the snook fishing. Tough decisions!!!
After the perfect storm the sun came out and this 8lb redfish showed up
One of a few nice snook we caught that day
We had some nice trips in the Everglades and had a great time. We found the mother load of big snook on the last day but they would not eat. We broke a hook on one big fish and missed some others but that is what fishing is all about. We caught lots of big trout , ladyfish, snapper, and a few snook in a afternoon bliz on the last day as well.. Followed by a few beers at the Seafood Depot. See you guys in May. I still have the last week in Jan. open. Someone should get in on this wintertime sightfishing action.
Fished 4 days last week with Big John King. These are a few of the highlights of last week. Even with the cold weather we found snook and redfish that were happy to eat. The water was so clear we could see fish 100 ft down the shoreline. It is really fun when it get like that. Started each day around 8:30 am to let the sun warm the water and it paid off. Looking forward to fishing with some great clients and friends later this week. Just be ready Adam Taylor and company to have a blast..It looks like the warming trend is set for later this week. Perfect!!!
It is cold for us south Florida folks today!! Might get in the 30’s tonight. Wow and only December. We were catching tarpon last year at this time. Must be Global Warming.. HAHA!!
Another nice redfish sightfished in the shallows
Another nice snook caught in 6" of water last week
Backcountry photo