A fun 1/2 day charter today out of Crystal River and I had the Damron family on board for some trout and red fish action. Leaving from Pete's Pier Marina at 8am, we ran out the Salt River and picked up a couple  trout to start our charter. The tide was rushing in extremely fast, so we decided to leave the trout and try our luck at a couple red fish points. The red fish were there and in just a couple stops we had some quality red fish in the cooler. With enough fish for the family dinner, we finished off our trip with a great lunch at Cracker's Bar and Grill and called it a day. Thank you all for the fun time and here's Caroline with her first Crystal River red fish... Capt. Dan

I hit the the deep grass patches today out of Crystal River with Clell, Davis and Lee on board and the trout have finally made their way offshore. A busy weekend day on the the water and to avoid the crowds, I made a long run to the 14ft depth range and started "dragging" a combination of DOA holographic root beer shrimp and watermelon colored MirrOlure Lil Johns. The numbers of trout were very impressive and it looks like the hot summer trout pattern is in full swing. The tides were not favorable for red fishing today, so we stuck with the trout and had a fine catch. Thank you as always for the great time and look forward to our future charters... Capt. Dan

Great trout action today on the DOA deadly combo rigs out of Crystal River and Mike and Tom had a really good catch. I met the guys at Pete's Pier Marina at 8am and we ran a ways south and set up our drifts in the 4ft to 6ft depth range. The bite was steady on the out going tide, but when the tide turned for the afternoon incoming, it was quite slow for us. Before we called it a day, we hit a couple points for red fish and only found one lonely keeper to end out trip. Thanks guys for the fun time and congratulations on the fine catch... Capt. Dan

I hit a new milestone in my fishing career today and guided Oscar and Arno to a giant Crystal River tarpon on the fly rod. Oscar is a very well respected fly fisherman in the fishing community and it was a real treat to have him on board. Also along with us for the day was Oscars guest Arno from South Africa, and he was the man with the tarpon. We fished out of my tarpon rigged Silver King skiff and as luck would have it, hooked in to a beauty. The fight was fantastic and it took and hour and ten minutes to bring the fish boat side on one of my personally tied flies. We grabbed the leader for a legal catch, watched her swim away and this day was a memorable one. Thank you both for a great time and here is Arno hooked up in action... Capt. Dan

A special trip out of Homosassa today with DOA lures director Jerry Mcbride and my good friend Capt. William Toney and we were field testing/photographing some new DOA lures. As a bonus, we also filmed an upcoming episode of Capt. Toneys Nature Coast Outdoors showing how fantastic these baits are in action. Gag grouper were are target species for the day and we had some great action on the shallow rock piles in the 6ft to 10ft range. We caught an assortment of species on the 6" shrimp including grouper, sea bass, cobia and flounder to make our trip a success. I encourage any angler here off Citrus County to give these baits a try and I ensure you'll be very pleased. Thanks guys for the fun time and here's one of the grouper from today's trip... Capt. Dan

A very successful afternoon on tarpon! We located some good schools of fish off Homosassa and with ideal conditions, we had several shots of numerous fish. My wife and I were lucky enough to hook up on two tarpon and she did great getting some action shots. I still haven't got one quite to the boat for a holding shot, but we're getting closer each trip. Here's an awesome shot of the first tarpon of the day... Capt. Dan

It was another NE windy day out of Crystal River, but it didn't slow Heath, Dixie, Jason and Barry down on catching some great Crystal River trout and red fish. I met the gang at 8am at Pete's Pier marina and we spent the morning targeting our most popular inshore species - speckled trout. The trout bite was great and we covered some ground from the oyster bars off Crystal River, to the spotty bottom areas of St. Martins Keys. I'm sure you're tired of hearing this, but once again the ever reliable DOA deadly combo/MirrOlure Lil' John combinations did the trick on the trout. With seventeen keeper trout in the cooler, we spent the last of the incoming tide hooking into six beautiful back county red fish. An absolute fantastic day and I thank you all for the great time.,, Capt. Dan

Finally, today was the day. My good friend Matt and I teamed up, and we were on a mission to get on the tarpon. On the days I haven't been posting reports with my charters, I've been chasing down the silver king. I've had a couple shots at some fish, but only two quick hook ups so far this season - until today.  Locating pods of fish today, we were in the right place at the right time and hooking in to three tarpon. Two of the hook ups were immediately rejected and the other, we brought boat side. It was a great fight with the fish jumping five times, until the hook pulled right at boat side. We did get a couple action pictutres, but nothing to great. To end our trip, I suggested trying for a snook and we found a couple good ones to end the day. Thanks Matt for the great time and look forward to going again soon... Capt. Dan

A very pleasant change in the weather from yesterday's rain event and I had the pleasure of having Bill, Blake, John and Kyle on board for a fun day out of Homosassa. With almost flat calm conditions, we ran a little ways offshore until we reached the 6ft depth range and set up our drift. All the rods were rigged with DOA deadly combo rigs and MirrOLure Lil' Johns and the trout bite was very good. Nine keepers made their way in to the cooler on the first drift and numerous lady fish, sea bass and even a just under keeper sized gag grouper, made for some fantastic action. We kept on the trout until about noon, and then hit the points to find some red fish. Pulling up to a rocky point with plenty of mullet activity, we free lined some live shrimp and the crew caught 10 beautiful Homosassa reds. We called it a day around 2pm and I thank you for the wonderful time. Here's the guys with today's great catch... Capt. Dan  

Another request for an offshore charter and I was anxious to take Gary, John and Brad out of Crystal River. Cobia again was our offshore species for the day and after a very productive stop at the "bait bar", we were all set to target some cobia. We arrived at our destination and shortly after anchoring up and chumming, we were greeted by several large brown bombers. It was fast and furious action, with a couple fish on at a time and on today's charter; we landed 7 out of 8 cobia for our end of the day total. As an added bonus, a couple hefty gag grouper and Spanish Mackerel graced us, and I thank you all for the wonderful time. Here's the crew with a couple of the keeper cobia and enjoy the tasty fillets... Capt. Dan