I truly do not think you could have ordered up a more beautiful day than today's Crystal River Charter. I had two great anglers, Johnny and Scott on board and we had a blast. The trout action was a little slow compared to yesterday, but we did well using a combination of DOA jerk baits and MirrOlure Lil' Johns. The team caught a fine limit of trout and next, we ran to some sheepshead structures and did well. The sheepshead were on, as well as the usual grouper and bonus sea bass. A fantastic trip and I thank you both for the fun time... Capt. Dan

Well, Christmas vacation is over and it was back to work today. On today's Crystal River charter, I had Sasha and his family visiting from Russia on board. The trip was just a 1/2 day charter, so I kept it simple and ran to some rock piles and caught a mixed bag. Grunts, sea bass, grouper, mackerel.... etc, kept us busy all morning long. The team didn't speak a lot of English, but we had a fun time and I learned to say yes, no and Vodka in Russian. We had a great catch and called it a day just after noon. Thank you all and enjoy all the fresh fish... Capt. Dan

A nice mix today on both some inshore and offshore fishing. I had some great friends from high school on board that I haven't seen in quite sometime and we had a blast. From jigging trout, to dropping knocker rigs on the rock piles; the bite was on today. The team had a great mix of trout, sheepshead, grouper, trigger fish, grunts and hog fish. A couple of the species we caught today, the seasons were closed; but we had a blast catching and releasing. I really enjoyed the day and I thank you all for the fun time... Capt. Dan

An incredible day on the big pond with Steve and Paul and the guys had a day to remember. Today we began targeting trout and we did very well on MirrOlure Lil' Johns, before we ran to the rock piles in search of a mixed bag. After a great catch of trout, we dropped down some live shrimp and the team had some unbelievable action. Grouper, sea bass, pompano and sheepshead kept us busy for the afternoon and the action was excellent. I thank you both for a very memorable day and I always look forward to next time... Capt. Dan

Three days in a row of beautiful December weather and Frank and Scott hit it out of the park today. The guys and I left from the Plantation on Crystal River just before 9am to catch the tide right, and the bite was one. We targeted trout again for the morning hours and the bite was good. The team caught some fine Crystal River trout on MirrOlure Lil' Johns, then we took a gamble. I have been itching to see if the sheepshead have showed up and we checked one of my winter time haunts to see if they were there. Well, yes they are and we caught quite a few; plus lost over two dozen rigs to grouper also. A great day and I thank you both for the fun time... Capt. Dan

Wow!!! Another great day with Bill and Hazel on board and we had an awesome day. The trip began targeting red fish and the bite was on. We made two stops and caught over twenty red fish. Most were under slot, but a couple were mid slot fish and all were released. The weather was absolutely perfect, so for our next species, we made a run to grouper land and trolled up a limit of fine keeper sized gags on Rapala CD 14's. The grass wasn't bad today and trolling was a breeze. To top off the day, we caught and released several trout off the bars with DOA deadly combos and we called it a day. I thank you both for two great days and I always enjoy fishing with you both... Capt. Dan

Day two for us at the Homosassa Fishing Club with the Conklin party and my team today did great again. We ran to the shallow rocks and went jumping rock to rock, catching an assortment of species. The conditions were identical as yesterday and it was definitely bumpy out there for the morning hours. We used live shrimp on Hank Brown jig heads and it was just a fun day of fishing. I thank you all for two great days and I look forward to having you all on board again soon... Capt. Dan

One moire trip out to sheepshead land and we did excellent. I had the Cooper family on board and it was excellent. I fished a couple of my favorite ledges in the North country and it was good. I usually don' t fish sheepshead this late in the year, but this year has been excellent and might as well stay on them while the action is good. There still out there and a live shrimp on a knocker rig will keep the rod bent  "plus some gag grouper too". We ended the day with chumming up some mackerel and I can't thank you all enough for the great day. Here's the team with an excellent catch... Capt. Dan

Wow! What a beautiful day to go offshore and that's exactly what we did with Sarah and Randy on board. Once again, I made the run to the sheepshead grounds and the bite was just as good as yesterday's; but the size average was up a bit. The action was good and we even picked up a surprise snook on an offshore wreck in almost 20ft of water. With a fine catch of sheepshead, we anchored up and chummed up a few drag burning macks to wrap up the day. I thank you both for the fun time and congratulations on the outstanding catch... Capt. Dan

Some more excellent late season sheepshead action offshore and with the Lent family on board; they did fantastic. We fished the ledges in the 17ft-23ft range and did very well. The sheepshead action was very good, as well as the gag grouper. The grouper were pretty much non stop all day and we even had a Goliath grouper grab a grouper for some added excitement. A bonus cobia was caught and we all had a great day. I thank you all for the fun time and I look forward to next time... Capt. Dan