Tonight we caught our first tarpon of the season. We caught 3 tarpon to about 50 pounds on live shrimp after dark.
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Yesterday they wanted calm bay fishing. The charter caught 5 nice trout, numerous grouper, several gray and mutton snapper and some jacks
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The Lapnows had a great day of casting jigs and verticle jigging today.
They caught mahi, tuna, skipjacks, a bunch of bonito, a bunch of small kingfish, yellow jacks, bar jacks, horse eye jacks, a sailfish, a shark, mutton snappers, a cobia and an amberjack
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This by far has been the strangest and most challenging season I can ever recall. I must apologize yet again as it has been a long time since my last update. I am still working far from my front door-step, and with little to no access to reliable internet and computers let alone time, even things like haircuts and oil changes are becoming monumental tasks. The weather has been uncharacteristically warm for these parts, and the winds have been more than cooperative as well, prolonging the challenge and the season. The bluefin never showed up in the numbers that we are accustomed to, so hunting them down and actually catching one was even more difficult than normal, and of course the light tackle approach the loftiest way to go about securing a tight line. The method has been predominantly jigging, but the topwater action has had its place here and there. The whales and dolphin are more than happy to put on a show, so despite the slower than normal fishing, the scenery more than makes up for it with many clients being treated to once-in-a-lifetime type displays within feet of the bow of the Dusky. The high vantage point provided by the raised casting deck gives a great view for this, as well as for casting and fighting large pelagic fish like bluefin. The catch rate on the Dusky has been better than most, so feeling fortunate that we are producing in a difficult bite. The fish should be here well through the end of this month, and hopefully once it slows down I can get back home so my dogs remember what I look like! Enjoy some of the pictures taken over the last few weeks:
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Fishing was good in 120 to 130 feet of water today.
Packs of 5 to 12 pound mahi and sailfish were cruising south and eatting flatline ballyhoo and herring on the kite.
We caught 2 sailfish, 10 mahi, 6 assorted tuna and a 20 pound kingfish.
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We started with a black grouper on a X-rap 30 trolling in 20 feet. Then it was about a dozen assorted small tuna on plugs, feathers and ballyhoo. A bamboo branch made the day with 20 mahi to 10 lbs and a wahoo. One more nice mahi on the edge and fishing dropped dead for the afternoon.
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Today Mike and Brian wanted to improve their bottom fishing skills. We fished a variety of wrecks and methods.
The fish were mostly small today. We caught gag and snow grouper, amberjack, mutton and vermillion snapper.
Trolling small lures we caught a bunch of small bonito,
Live bait chumming produced a small sailfish and small shark.
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Scott Nichols is trying to catch all 9 billfish species in a year. Yesterday we helped him cross off his swordfish. Learn how we caught it at IGFA fishing tips on Utube in a few weeks.
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Yesterday Dan set out to catch a swordfish deep dropping during the day. He is a hard working businessman and father who doesn’t have time to train for a 2 hour big game fish battle. With this in mind we set out to help him catch a swordfish.
We used a Penn 80 International with a removable Hooker Electric Drive. We dropped his bait down 1700 feet. After 45 minutes we had 2300 feet of line out to keep the bait near the bottom.
The swordfish struck and Dan geared up with his standup harness and we hooked him in and the battle was on. After several minutes of trying to keep up with this big fish his arns were shot.
We reattached the Hooker Electric Drive and Dan used it to catch up with his rising battler. As the fish reached 200 feet below Dan took over the fight and we removed the Hooker Electric Drive. Dan then brought the gladiator to the gaff.
Without the Penn International and Hooker Electric Drive Dan would have had to turn the rod over to another angler or the mate. With this set up this was his catch.
We have also perfected our use of the Penn International and Hooker Electric Drive as a down rigger, so our anglers can fish IGFA legal with a lot less effort maintaining their bait in the best location
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This weekend the fishing world lost a great friend. TBF scientist Dr Russell Nelson passed away.
Dr Nelson was very active in Florida and United States fishery managment over the last 30 years and will be missed by all who knew him
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