Crystal River Fishing Charters & Homosassa Charters

One of those special days for us today when we hit the tides right and could do a little variety. For my Crystal River Charter today, I had Bear and Walt on board and the team hit it out of the park. The day began using DOA deadly combo cork rigs off the keys picking up some trout. The trout action was pretty good, but we had to leave them to hit the tide right for the grouper. On the big tides around the full moon time periods, you only have a short window to hit for the bite to be just right. Well, we hit a couple different locations and found some real nice sized gag grouper. Live baits were the ticket today for the grouper. With four grouper in the box and a couple hours of the day to go "with the incoming tide"; we hit the out side points and topped off the day with some fine red fish. I thank you both for a special day and look forward to doing it again in the future... Capt. Dan

Today I had the pleasure of working with long time friend Capt. Dave Lear of Saltwater Sportsman and we featured a snook story. Dave was on of the first magazine writers to get me started in guiding and his help/influence has been instrumental for my success. I can't reveal to much, but it will be a great read in the coming months and I know you all will enjoy it. Stay tuned... Capt. Dan

Always a fun day with Mishel, Earl and Jason on board and the team and I had another successful day in the grouper grounds. Today's trip, I ran out to the 25ft to 28ft range and did a combination of bottom fishing and trolling. The bottom fishing bite was quite good and a mix of live and dead baits did fantastic. The floating grass is definitely starting to clear and we were able to pick up our last two keepers trolling Rapala x-rap 20's. I cannot thank you all enough for the fun time together and I look forward to seeing you soon... Capt. Dan

An awesome grouper trip with Casey and Chris and we found the gags. Casey is the owner of Sodium fishing gear and his good friend and mine also; Chris joined us to target some Crystal River gags. We fished the 10ft range today and the bite was on. Using a combination of cut thread fin herring and live pin fish did the trick. We had a couple get the best of us, but we turned the majority of them to fill out a limit of fine grouper. Thank you both for the awesome day and I look forward to next time... Capt. Dan

Back to the inshore scene today with the Riley team and we had a blast. The wind was up out of the NE and we weren't able to go offshore, so we had a fun day red fishing and picking up a few trout. The team and I had to cover some ground to get on the red fish, but we soon found a nice little school and had some fantastic action. For almost 30 minutes, we caught one every cast and the team loved it. A great day to start off the first official day of fall and I thank you for the wonderful time... Capt. Dan

A big day for me today as I worked with the "In the Spread" film crew and made my first instructional DVD. We featured shallow water grouper techniques, tackle and how to specifically target these fish. We had a great day off Homosassa and the video will be avaibale soon at www. inthespread.com. I really enjoyed the day with you all and thank you for a fun time... Capt. Dan

The calmest I've seen the gulf in quite sometime and I believe you could have taken a canoe offshore today. I had the pleasure of having the Worthington family on board for a grouper trip and we headed West. I have not been to the 25ft range in a while and was anxious to go there myself. I have to pick and choose my days to run to that range since I have a bay boat; but when the opportunity rises - I'm there. Today was glass, flat calm conditions and it was a breeze running offshore. We anchored on a couple low profile rocks and did great. The team brought in a fine limit of gag grouper using a combination of both live and cut thread fin herring baits. A perfect day and I thank you all for the fun time... Capt. Dan

Great conditions and perfect seas to go to grouper town and Dave, Mike and Jeff did fantastic. I fished some shallow rocks today in the 12ft range and the grouper were ready to play. Live baits were the top producers for us, and believe it or not; spot tail pin fish baits were on fire. The bite wasn't hot as yesterday's, but we hung in there and did fine. Thank you all for the great day and congratulations on your catch... Capt. Dan

Two days of unfortunate cancellations due to the weather; I sure was ready to get back on the fish. On today's trip out of the Plantation on Crystal River, I had Chuck and Terry on board and we made a hard run to the grouper lands. It was smooth sailing at 40mph to the 12ft range and I must say the bite was on. I anchored, sent down the thread fin herring and "WHAM"... In just a matter of minutes we had our limit, and some fine sized gags too. We wrapped up the grouper game and ran back inshore to tackle some trout. The team and I made a long drift in 4ft of water of the keys, picked up about a 1/2 a dozen keepers on cork rigs and called it a day. I thank you both for the great time and congratulations on an awesome catch... Capt. Dan.

The roughest charter I've been on in quite sometime and it was bumpy. I had Mike, Jason and Pat on board and I told the team it wasn't going to be pleasant, but we wanted to give it a try anyway. A very stiff NE wind greeted us at the mouth of the river with a 2ft-3ft chop as well. I was able to make it out a couple miles and have some luck. The bite was slow and we turned a beast of a grouper in the 17lb range and some break offs as well. That pretty much summed up our day, but we always have a good time fishing together. Thank you guys and I look forward to next time... Capt. Dan