A great half day charter with Rod and Mike on board and today's special was trout and grouper. I picked up the guys from Rods beautiful home on the Crystal River, ran out the Salt River and were into the trout. We worked some of the outer bars with the MirrOlure Lil' John cork rigs and had great trout action. It was trout after trout with most of them being under slot, but we had a couple keepers to keep us busy. For a change of pace, we targeted some of the shallow rock piles and casted up some grouper. We had a hefty pair of gags with both of the over 10lbs to end our day. I thank you both for the fun time and look forward to seeing you soon... Capt. Dan
Rain and wind was the forecast the last two days and unfortunately, I had to cancel some charters. However, today was a different day and slick calm seas made for an easy ride offshore. John and Kaitlynn were on board for the day and with the cooling water temperatures, it was time to give trolling up some grouper a try. We reached our destination just over 20ft of water, sent down some plugs and it was fish on. We totaled nine beautiful gags to 14lbs and used a combination of fire tiger, bunker and chartreuse and silver rapala x-raps for today's trip. The floating grass is still a little bit of a headache to get a clean drag, but it's worth the aggravation. Congratulations to you both for an outstanding day and look forward to seeing you again soon... Capt. Dan
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The SE 15mph wind pushed the water out today and it made a bit of a challenge to stay on the hot trout bite. Doug, Aaron and Jake were on board and despite the less than favorable conditions, we caught a lot of trout. We left from Pete's Pier Marina and actually tried to make a run offshore in hopes of trolling up a grouper or two. Well, the rough seas chased us back inshore and we toughed it out and had a decent catch of trout. We had tons of action with the under slots, and seven keepers made their way to the cooler. Finally around 1pm the tide was making its way back in and we had enough water to red fish to the North. The guys found a couple nice keepers to end the day and I think they did great dealing with the choppy conditions. Here's Aaron with a beautiful Crystal River red fish... Capt. Dan
The fire tiger color worked its magic for us today on the flats South of Homosassa. Dr. Coco and John were on board for the day and once again, the speckeled trout bite was great. Working the shallow yellow hard bottom areas with good stands of kelp grass was our pattern and the trout were very cooperative. For close to an hour stretch, we had fish on three at a time and we all agreed it was at least a one hundred fish day. The redfish fishing was a bit of a challenge and just like yesterday, we could only find one keeper to add to our catch. It was very good day on the water and I thank all you guys for the last couple of days. I look forward to our charters next year and here's my crew with today's fine spread... Capt. Dan