Someday's, you hit it just right! With the barometer dropping before tomorrows front, today's action was unbelievable. The gulf reached the 60 degree mark and it seemed as if the fish came out of hibernation. John and Kelli were on board with me today and for the first part of their vacation, it truly began with a bang. We targeted the rock bars today with MirrOlure Lil' John's in the new bourbon color and it was the magic color. This color is similar to the root beer color, but more translucent and can be found exclusively a Blue Water Tackle in Homosassa. The trout bite and the additional bonus species were great and several trout were over the 20" mark. The team did beautifully catching their limit of trout and our next stop with the tide topping out, was a couple red fish points. The action was slow for the first couple places, but the last spot, we hit the money. We hooked into eight red fish on free lined live shrimp, with a couple nice keepers to end our day. I thank you both for the very memorable day and congratulations on a fine day of fishing... Capt. Dan
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A little different condition's than yesterdays trip and we had the NE wind to contend with. Jim and Fred were my guests today and I had plans on running offshore to catch the last of the Sheepshead season, but we stayed inshore and covered some ground. The trout bite for us today was slow with only a couple keepers and a few shorts to fill out the day. We basically covered the entire North Shore area and only saw a couple fish over some hard bottom areas. The few trout we did catch came on DOA jerk baits and MirrOlure Lil' John's, but we worked hard for them. I thank you guys for all your effort and enjoy the fresh fish... Capt. Dan
With a week of cold temperatures and howling winds, today was the day we've been waiting for. I apologize for the lack of fishing reports, but I've had to reschedule/cancel several charters all week from the drastic weather condition's. I thank you all for your patience and today's charter was definitely worth the wait. Scott, Aaron and Paulette were my guest out of Crystal River and even though there was a little ice on the boat this morning, the bite was on. We were welcomed to a light chop on the gulf this morning and our next stop were the sheephead grounds. The water temperature is in the upper 50's and this has the sheepshead in a feeding frenzy. Live shrimp on a knocker rig was the bait of choice for the sheepshead. Having a good catch in the cooler and the tide making high, we ran back inshore, tied on some DOA glow jerk-baits and caught some beautiful trout. We eased along the oyster bars and every bar that had mullet activity had trout on it. We added a couple to the days total and called it a day. I thank you all for the fun time and congratulation's on an outstanding catch... Capt. Dan
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A big thank you to my good friend and excellent outdoor writer David Brown, for our article in the March 2013 issue of Florida Sportsman magazine. David and I did a feature story about the northern snook population here off Citrus County. It has some great tips on how, when and where to find them and I know you all will enjoy reading it... Capt. Dan
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