Not the ideal conditions for tarpon charters the last couple of days, but we hung in there and saved the day. I was at the Homosassa Fishing Club with my great friends Capt. Mark Zorn, William Toney, Jonathan Hamilton and Jim Farrior and we had the pleasure of fishing the O'Kelly party. Tarpon was on order for Fridays trip, however rain storms and 20 mph winds just wouldn't let us make it happen. We saved the day with some spoon fed reds in the creeks and lost a hefty snook to end the day. Saturday's trip was a great time with some inshore fishing and shore lunch. My team didn't do well on keepers and we encountered mostly short trout, but Capt. Z took the prize with big catch and he did very well. A fine shore lunch with a special grilled red fish addition to the menu and we all thank you for a fun couple of days. Here's Brandt with a salt river red fish caught on a gold spoon... Capt. Dan

The wind and rain has had the best of us the last couple of days and has not allowed me to get to the outside tarpon grounds. However, there are always some juvenile tarpon in the river and we have been targeting them. Rick and Joe joined me the last couple of days and we gave it our best to run to the flats, but mother nature wouldn't let us do so. So, for plan B, we worked some areas in the river and had some great fun throwing the fly at some smaller tarpon. Bob had several tarpon eat the fly, but these little guys are sure tough to get a hook to stick in. It's neat to watch them, as they act like their larger family members and it's great practice in presenting a fly properly. Eventually, the wind got so strong we fished the creeks in the bay and found a large mouth bass and some jacks to bend the rod. A fun couple of days and I thoroughly enjoyed the days with you both... Capt. Dan

A perfect 1/2 day charter out of Macrae's in Homosassa with Capts. Mark Zorn and William Toney. We had the pleasure of fishing the Manriki party and his group of friends had an awesome day. All the boats had two anglers each and we all did really great catching some trout and red fish. The red fishing was definitely the hot bite today and the outer keys with mullet activity were the hot spots. Free lined live shrimp pulled in the reds and root beer colored Lil' Johns did great on the trout. A  fun yearly event we always look forward to and we thank you all for the great time... Capt. Dan

A great day with some great friends! Johnny, Robyn and Vickie joined me out of Pete's Pier Marina for a day of what ever we can catch kind of day, and we had a little variety. We left the marina at 8am and with plenty of tide and we hit the points to find a red fish or two. I put the team on a couple keepers on the lower slot end and had several larger fish all around, but just wouldn't eat. Our next stop was the shallow rocks to pull on a grouper or two and are they ever there. We cast a few plugs and caught some real nice keeper sized gags, a cobia and never left 7ft of water. The floating grass was a bit of a pain, but a clean drag resulted in a grouper. The trout bite for the afternoon was just about non existent for us and only a couple shorts filled out the last of our trip. A fun time and it's always a blast to check on the extremely strong gag grouper population. Here's a fine gag we caught and released to see again come July 1st... Capt. Dan

A little break from the tarpon action and I had a inshore charter for today. Kris joined me for the day and we fished the grass flats just off St. Martin's Keys, the shallow rocks and the "humps" off Crystal River. This trip was a birthday present for Kris and he had a ball. I wanted to cover some ground and just a take a couple trout off each area to see what was happening. The trout were on all locations and root beer Lil' Johns were the baits of the day. A fun time and the usual mixed bag of species kept us busy as well. I thank you for the great time and hope to do it again soon... Capt. Dan

Well, the winds have finally calmed since Saturday and we were able to make it back on the tarpon flats. I had Jonathan along as my guest today and he caught and released his first tarpon of the year on the fly rod. There were a couple schools of "happy" tarpon around and he presented a cockroach pattern beautifully. He led the fish by a couple feet, twitch, twitch and WHAM..... A great fight and some spectacular jumps - I was glad to be a part of a great day. Here's Jonathan with a fine tarpon on the fly... Capt. Dan