A comfortable day on the Nature Coast with Len, Karen and Bill being my guest for the day and we caught some fish. Leaving from Pete's Pier Marina at 8am, there was just enough tide to stop and hopefully find red fish or two. We pulled up to a key with plenty of mullet activity, a steady outgoing tide and found a couple small red fish. No keeper sized again, but fun all the same. The next stop was pulling out the cork rigs and finding a couple trout. The action was fair with trout, sea bass, lady fish, blue fish and several lizard fish. DOA deadly combos rigged with bourbon Lil' Johns put the keepers in the cooler. To end the trip, we tried a couple passes to troll up a grouper, but the floating grass on the inshore locations fouled the plugs and is here to stay until we get a good NE cold front or two. A fun day and I always enjoy fishing with you all... Capt. Dan
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Another one of those days when the majority of the grouper got the best of us. I had a Kit, Brendon and Larry on board for the day and we began today's charter filling the live well with pin fish and heading to the grouper grounds. The floating grass has shown back up and makes trolling impossible and from what I've seen, it may be here for quite a while. So, we opted to bottom fish and had excellent grouper action. The bites were there, but unfortunately, we had close to fifteen break offs to go along with our keeper and a few shorts. The gang enjoyed the short lived tug of wars and to ensure some fillets for dinner, we ran inshore and caught some trout. The trout bite was good and in a couple quick drifts, we put 6 keeper trout in the box to end the day. I thank you all for you hanging in there and I look forward to our next charter... Capt. Dan
A big catch day at the Homosassa Fishing Club and myself and Captains Mark Zorn, Rick Spratt, Jim Long, Jonathan Hamilton and William Toney had some great catches. We fished the Watson party and I had Paul, Phil and Paul on board for the day. My crew did fantastic catching lots of trout and a couple red fish, but the reds were on the short side again for me. DOA deadly combos in the kelp grass beds called up the trout and we had numerous under slot trout today. The big reds didn't want to cooperate for us, but a couple of the other guides, "Capt. Z" brought in some good ones. A fine day out on the Homosassa flats and I thank you all for the great day.. Capt. Dan
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Today was the annual Capitol City Bank trip headed by Capt. Jim Long and myself and fellow Homosassa Guides Association Captains William Toney and Jonathan Hamilton had a great day. We met the group at River Side Resort on the Homosassa River and made our way to the flats. I had Randy, Ally and Gordon for the day and our team won the most keepers before our afternoon shore lunch. The trout action was great on the last of the out going tide, but when it turned to come in - it died. Fire tiger DOA shrimp in the kelp beds off Chazz was where we found the trout. At noon we made our way to shore lunch and another Homosassa classic shore lunch was in the books "and our bellies". A great time and I, as well as the other guides, look forward to this trip each year. Here's our shore lunch spread to top off the day... Capt. Dan