Crystal River Fishing Charters & Homosassa Charters

A fun day on the inshore scene with Michelle and Ian and we had a blast. The tide was perfect for red fishing this morning and the bite was good using live shrimp on jig heads. The couple brought in a fine limit and released several others as well. For the afternoon hours we jigged up some trout, sea bass and other odds and ends and the day was a big success. I thank you all for the fun time and I hope to see you soon... Capt. Dan

Well, we finished up the 2016 tarpon season with a bang and Joe did great. We covered quite a bit of ground and located some fish in the afternoon, on the outgoing tide. Joe was loaded with DOA bait busters and did fantastic. A beautiful tarpon made it's way to the boat for some pictures and we watched her swim away. A great time as always and I thank you.... Capt. Dan

What a day with Dr. Ed on board!!! Ed and I have been trying for years to target Goliath grouper, but the weather has always put us down. It was looking that way again this morning, but the storms eventually cleared and it was smooth sailing by mid morning. As we waited on the weather, I was catching live jacks for Goliath bait and Ed hooks into a 38" snook - "nice bonus". We eventually made our way to some nice bottom structures and WHAM, we hooked up. Ed went 2 for 5 on Goliath's, while bringing one boat side well over 300lbs. A very good accomplishment and congratulations on a great tug of war... Capt. Dan

I just want to say thank you to everyone who took the time and voted for the Citrus County Chronicles, Best of the Best awards. I am so blessed to win the Fishing Guide category again and this makes 3 years in a row. I work with a great group of guides and myself and the other Homosassa Guides Association captains, are one big team. Once again I thank you and I hope to see you all on the water soon... Capt. Dan

As tarpon season winds down, I was able to have a scheduled fun day with my wife Becky and bring one boat side. As I write this blog, the last 2 days there have still been some schools of fish around, but they are all migrating North. Also, with scallop season in full swing; the extreme heavy boat traffic will keep the fish on the move as well. It has been a great season and I have just a couple more days to hopefully have my anglers put a few more in the air... Capt. Dan

A postcard kind of day offshore Crystal River with Mishel and Earl and the grouper action was great. I covered the 15ft to 28ft range and the rods stayed bent all day. Once again, lots and lots of 22"-23" gags being released, but we found a pair of fine keepers to take home, plus a bonus hog fish. A great day on the big pond and I thank you both as always for the great day... and Happy Anniversary too... Capt. Dan

One of those special days with Ashley, Ann and Jacki on board and we had a blast. Ann owns a fine clothing apparel company called "Settin The Hook" and I always enjoy taking her team of lady anglers out for the day. For today's trip, I took the team offshore Crystal River and we caught some gag and red grouper, plus a couple cobia. We had a couple keeper sized fish and released a pile of, (would have been keepers last year). So, with some good grouper action under our belts, we made our way back in the keys and had some of the best red fishing you could ever hope for. We had doubles on for over 30 minutes and we caught close to 25 red fish. Most of the red fish were lower slot, but Ashley had big fish honors with a fine 26" beauty. A wonderful day and I always look forward to next time... Capt. Dan

A really good afternoon 1/2 day trip with my great friends Capt. William Toney and Mark Zorn fishing the Manriki party out of Macrae's. We left at 11am to fish the afternoon incoming tide and the bite was really good. The entire group caught their limit of red fish and everyone had a blast. I had Rhonda and Debbie on board and these ladies caught some fine red fish; including Rhonda's big upper slot red. I hope to see you all soon... Capt. Dan

Today I finished up a great week long trip with Jim and he had quite the week. From jumping and landing tarpon, casting artificials for red fish and snook, cobia on the fly and bottom bumping for grouper; it was fantastic. The weather hurt us a bit for the tarpon game later in the week, so we hit the back country and really did well. Yesterday and today, we fished the North side of "Chazz" and we boated 18 red fish and 11 snook mainly using DOA glow jerk baits. We kept it simple and I poled the shore lines while he shot gunned cast, the rocky structures. I truly enjoyed the week and I'll see you in Wyoming in a couple weeks... Capt. Dan

A fantastic day with Jim on board and today, we had the variety show going on. The gulf is hot at 88 degrees but the fishing is still quite good. The day began as we brought a fine tarpon boat side, for the morning hours. Tarpon are always welcomed, but the next surprise, a cobia popped up and we caught it on the fly rod. To keep the variety going, I made a stop on a grouper ledge and Jim tackled a couple gags up to just under the keeper size. As we ended this great day, a nice slot red fish came on board and two hefty snook threw the jerk baits back at us to finish up our trip. An awesome day and thank you for the fun time... Capt. Dan