Friday, December 30, 2011

down south

after fighting cooler water, alec and i decided to head way south. wow... piles of tailing reds and saw a few giant snook.

Thursday, December 29, 2011

cold front


unfortunately a cold front pushed through and slowed the fishing down. still managed to catch a few small ones

Tuesday, December 27, 2011

friends that fly fish


alec guided with me a few years back in colorado.  it sure is nice having another fly fisherman on the deck of the boat.  the weather shut the fishing down around lunch, but before then we had a fun morning.  

Sunday, December 25, 2011

Thursday, December 22, 2011

good & bad news

we picked up a couple friends on the way to the outer islands this morning. a pretty nice speckled sea trout and flipper himself.

now for the good news, after three days of hard looking I found a handful of tarpon that were willing to eat. the bad news, i didn't get any to the boat.  soon...i promise there will be tarpon pics soon.

Saturday, December 17, 2011

eileen's family

eileen, our friend from germany who is staying with us for a bit,  and her family have been close friends of my family most of my life and her parents just arrived from germany to spend christmas with us. winnie, pictured above, had never caught a fish in his life and on the first day out he caught 3 reds, 1 trout, 1 jack and a few lady fish. did pretty well, even with jetlag.

Tuesday, December 13, 2011

tarpon takin a nap

since chapin swallowed a quarter last night, I decided to fish close to home with rowe instead of running a good way out. of coarse, while hammering lady fish we rolled up on this big fella. i figured the zebco wouldn't be the wisest stick to tangle with this poon.

Thursday, December 8, 2011

crabs

fortunately for us, if fishing isn't good the canal behind the house can supply dinner.  rowe is a hell of a crabber.  he's not patient with much else, but he sure does have a feel for dragging that chicken neck.

Sunday, December 4, 2011

tarpon

sarah was able to to fish with me today and while trying to get her on some redfish we found a cove with laid-up tarpon, a few were 50+ pounds.  We worked them for over an hour, but couldn't get them to eat. I called one of my best friends who just happens to be a tarpon guide to get the skinny on catching laid-up picky fish. hopefully i can post a pic of a big poon after i try j's trick. and yes that is a hole in the crouch of my pants.  we're living on the cheap.

Friday, December 2, 2011

finally

after two days of not seeing anything, it sure was nice to get into a bunch of reds today.  these fish were some of the most eager reds i have ever seen munch a fly.  i'm embarrassed to say one fish ate my fly 4 times, but i finally got him on the 5th.

Thursday, December 1, 2011