Hello everyone, I wanted to check in and let you know how the Wyoming trip is going. The weather has been fantastic with lows in the upper 40's and highs in the mid 80's. The water is a little low from the lower than normal snow fall amounts the area experienced from the winter, but there's still enough water to keep us busy. The cutthroat and brook trout action has been great and I've been using a variety of streamers and dry flies including yellow sallies, deer hair caddis and Letort hoppers. We're trying new streams on a regular basis and every area is producing fish. I'll check back in when I can and here's a beautiful Snake River cutthroat that took a purple and black cone head bugger... Capt. Dan
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A 1/2 day Crystal River charter with the Paul family and was it ever busy. The scallopers are here in huge numbers and this time of year just coming in and out of the river can be a chore. To try and the beat the crowds, I picked up the guys at their house on the Crystal River and we left just after 7am. Our first stop was drifting the kelp grass patches in the Salt River area and we had some action. The first cast of the day produced a hefty cobia and a couple trout and jacks soon followed. DOA deadly combos rigged with the new blood worm colored MirrOlure Lil' John was the bait of choice. The tide was running in and before our trip was over we tried a couple red fish points. The guys had them on, but the sharp oyster bars I've been fishing got the best of us again. A good morning of fishing and it was great to get one more charter in before I head out West. I thank you all for the fun time and here's John with the first cast of the days fish... Capt. Dan
Sorry folks, not to much to report over the last few days with all the rain showers and wind. Grouper season opened Monday and with conditions not favorable for going offshore, I've been land locked and canceled a few charters. Also, scallop season has opened and the reports I'm hearing are good from around the Gomez Rocks area and just to the south. As many of you know, I'll be leaving Monday to head out West for my yearly fly fishing trip to Wyoming and I'm very excited. The conditions are looking absolutely perfect and I've tied enough flies to fill a tackle shop - (I'm ready). I'll be staying in Alpine with Snake River fine spotted cutthroat trout being the main target species. Thank you as always for visiting my site and here's the big cutthroat from last years trip... Capt. Dan
Some exciting tarpon charters to end the week, but they were on and off so fast I couldn't get a picture. This week I had the Brue couple on board and the next day the Short family, and both days we had some great tarpon action. Tarpon were rolling all around us and on a few occasions all we had was a quick take or jump and the DOA bait busters came sailing back to us. As many of you know the tarpon mouth is extremely hard and the hook has to set just right. One large tarpon in the 150lb range with the Brue family was on for about 5 minutes, but came unbuttoned as it was coming towards the boat. Just seeing the fish and having some shots sometimes makes the day for a tarpon charter. I thank both families for a fun and very memorable couple of days and look forward to seeing you again soon... Capt. Dan
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