A great start to our yearly trip out to Wyoming. The fishing has been excellent, but there's still quite a bit of run off on many of the mountain streams. We've found if you find the clear water, you'll find the trout. Hopper patterns and typical attractor dry fly's are working very well. The first three days have brought snake river fine spotted, Colorado and Bonneville cutthroats to the net; as well as some fine brown trout. Beautiful weather and a nice little chill in the mornings and evenings have made the days very enjoyable. Here's Becky with her first Brown trout that came on the Wyoming/Idaho border... Capt. Dan
A nice couple days off in preparation for my yearly trip out West to Wyoming. I'll be calling the Alpine area home for a couple weeks and I'll do my best to post pictures and reports. I generally don't fish on the July 4th weekend, but I heard some reports of good scalloping and steady grouper action offshore. Also, the shallow rocks continue to produce nice sized mangrove snapper, grunts, flounder and mackerel. I hope this trip is a great success and I'll check in soon. Good Fishing!!! Capt. Dan
An offshore trip out of Homosassa today with the Athens family for their second charter and they did fantastic. I picked up the crew at their river house and we headed West. It was a smooth ride to the grouper grounds for a while, but by mid morning it got white capping and bumpy. The action was great for grunts and snapper on live shrimp, while the gags came aboard using thread fin herring. We hung in their as long as we could, but the conditions finally chased us in. A great couple days with you all and I look forward to seeing you every year... Capt. Dan
A really good day on the shallow rock piles with Bill, Gary and Jerry and the guys loaded up. The gulf is quite warm with water temperatures in the mid 80's and for sure fire action, we hit the rocks to catch some groceries. I anchored up tide of the rocks, sent down some live shrimp on Hank Brown jig heads and the bite was on. Great action of snapper, grunts, grouper and a Spanish mackerel filled out our morning before it got to hot. A box full of fine eating fish and we called it a day. I thank you all as always for the fun time and I look forward to seeing you again soon... Capt. Dan