Well a great half day trip today. I had customers book directly. Father and his young 6 year old son. We had beautiful weather with a nice dry north breeze. Caught our live pilchards for bait and hung around some locao bay islands. The juvenile tarpon were happy we hooked several and landed two nice ones. You nornally arent allowed to take tarpon out of the water but these juveniles we can as long as they are under 40 inches and you are careful with them. We also had our nice snappers for action and table fare. We had a half day bookes but we were having such a good time they extended things.

Had another awesome half day trip today! We caught pilchards early to start the day, plenty of 'em around as mentioned last report. We hit some shallow water patch reefs on the ocean side with the calmer weather. These are small clusters of coral heads and sea fans on the atlantic side, usually in anywhere from 15 to 30 ft of water. The seacraft I'm running now can get out there even on the slightly rougher days and it is often great fishing this time of year. We had all kinds of action with various snappers, groupers, jacks, and more! We had a few nice jumbo mangrove snappers, and even got a large mutton snapper which was awesome! He got us in the rocks for a few minutes and we let him be, and then maneuvered the boat around and managed to get him loose! We also had quite a few yellow jacks which make for great table fare too.

Well it's slowed down slightly with business now, we'll hopefully have a busy weekend around Thanksgiving and of course after Christmas. But other than that its a great time to come to the Keys to get the place to yourself. I've still been getting out a couple days a week and fun fishing on my own some. Last couple trips we did half days and the snapper fishing was excellent! Big pilchards (baitfish) are around all over the place with the fall weather arriving. So bait is easy to get most of the time and that is often half the battle of a good fishing trip. With those on hand we've been finding very good size mangrove snappers which make for excellent tablefare! Also with the pilchards you always have a shot of catching a nice snook, tarpon, jack, grouper, etc... around the bridges or in some of the local honey holes nearby. If you are wanting to get out and fish let's do it I've got plenty of availability and we'd love to get you out there!

Have had a couple of half days recently and the big snappers have shown up! Limited out with two different groups, with nice size snappers up to 17 inches. The live bait has been plentiful and should hold up through November. Weve had a fair bit of wind some days but the larger seacraft Im running now is comfortable no matter what the wind is doing. A few snook and small tarpon have still been in the mix often too. And some shots at larger tarpon are still to be had as well. Lets go fishing I have plenty of days available in November!

Great mixed bag action today! We had the family fun adventure going on. Caught live bait to start and that was productive. Pilchards make for good fishing for a wide variety of fish. We had snappers, muttons, jacks, groupers, and even some tarpon blowing up our baits. September can still yield some good fishing and i have plenty of availability so come on down and give me a shout!

Had Stephen out we fished around local islamorada on a 6 hour trip. Caught a variety of groupers including a massive goliath which was really cool he was stoked about that! This little hole i found has been producing some nice groupers as of late. Tarpon were around though not cooperative for us but plenty of other action to make a great day! Still good opportunities in August so come on down.