Mays slow start morfs into a stellar June Tarpon Doo Daa! OR
" Night and Day you are the One "
Really great Tarpon Fandango, Fly Rod or Spinning chucking plastic as long as we were willing to start early AM or fish Sunset and later we were into good to great Tarpon fishing.
Flies, Flies everybody has the secret Fly, you if you were lucky, saw the secret fly the past 5-6 weeks ....it was in the mouth of all the Tarpon you jumped !
Bunny Strips, Toady things, Leaping Lizards, Whizz Bangers !! Shhhhhh don't tell anybody.
Chartreuse is good, oooww Sand Bunny with Rust Marabou head and then night time BLACK.......cool I'll have a Mocha- Peppermint Latte .. yes sir.
Mid day almost always sucks for Tarpon, we all know that but go try to shoot a White Tail Deer or a Turkey mid day and be prepared to nap in the woods !
We still have lots of good Tarpon fishing and the Bonefish have been good numbers lately with some full grown suckers swimming round.
Our weather in May and June was very mild, just now some tropical pop up storms that can make you wear your rubbers.
Mother warned you....
Thursday, June 25, 2009
Thursday, April 16, 2009
2008-2009 Best Guide Service in Key West
WHO would ever guess? Thanks to the US Small Business folks.
Monday, April 13, 2009
Laidup- In The Lake Tarpon
" Mosquito Bite Just Before The Tarpon Do " Ol' Guide Charlie Weaver used to quip.
What he meant is the more warm and humid, still air the early morning or evening weather is, the better your chances for exceptional Tarpon action.
We are getting into that time of year now, been flirting with Tarpon more often in late March and early April but as we move closer to May the pace picks up considerably.
Plugs, small live crabs, Jigs and Fly's are a flats fisherman arsenal along with a good stout rod and a big Bowl of Wheatie's.......you will need it.
Yesterdays Tarpon were not very happy and after a lot of work we managed to put a couple in the air, full moon madness I'm afraid.
Sometimes they have been at the " Snak Shak " all night chowing down in the light of the Silvery Moon.
We found some Tarpon sliding around in the bottom in about 5-6 feet of water in a inshore basin.
Fun stuff but the are not the most approachable fish.
Mount up it's Tarpon Time!
What he meant is the more warm and humid, still air the early morning or evening weather is, the better your chances for exceptional Tarpon action.
We are getting into that time of year now, been flirting with Tarpon more often in late March and early April but as we move closer to May the pace picks up considerably.
Plugs, small live crabs, Jigs and Fly's are a flats fisherman arsenal along with a good stout rod and a big Bowl of Wheatie's.......you will need it.
Yesterdays Tarpon were not very happy and after a lot of work we managed to put a couple in the air, full moon madness I'm afraid.
Sometimes they have been at the " Snak Shak " all night chowing down in the light of the Silvery Moon.
We found some Tarpon sliding around in the bottom in about 5-6 feet of water in a inshore basin.
Fun stuff but the are not the most approachable fish.
Mount up it's Tarpon Time!
Friday, April 10, 2009
Key West Tarpon Tango/ Shrimp Stomp
Fly fishing for Tarpon is one of those activities that once you have done it with some success, you just know it will be part of your annual agenda for life.
Think about that statement for a few seconds, Grand Canyon OK , saw it! Indy 500 Race , cool, once was enough, Aunt Margret's tits, great but.
A big Ol ' Tarpon with his head out of the water , eye balls straining to spot his feathery target and the subsequent hard grab at the fly line in your hand.....Sweet Jesus !
The other night was one of those - 3 days before full moon , sunset a large Red Ball hang'in over the western view and almost hissing sound as the Red Ball disappears into the Gulf.
No wind, just the HUP - POP sound of Tarpon sucking shrimp from the surface on a falling tide...
Staked in 3 feet on the flats west of Key West, they're all around us.
Waiting in the din for the closer, 11 o'clock shot and finely making a back cast at 3 o'clock because you can't wait, why should you, you've been here before - many tides .
In seconds a - one long pull after the Black Toad Fly hits the water, he's on!
The big Moon is up now, silvering the Tarpon when......... all ten jump.
Two hours later and 7 Tarpon Heads touched, 3 more jumped, all loved, every wild ass one of them.
Rocketing home in the glass slick calm of Midnight after touching the heads of kings.
Think about that statement for a few seconds, Grand Canyon OK , saw it! Indy 500 Race , cool, once was enough, Aunt Margret's tits, great but.
A big Ol ' Tarpon with his head out of the water , eye balls straining to spot his feathery target and the subsequent hard grab at the fly line in your hand.....Sweet Jesus !
The other night was one of those - 3 days before full moon , sunset a large Red Ball hang'in over the western view and almost hissing sound as the Red Ball disappears into the Gulf.
No wind, just the HUP - POP sound of Tarpon sucking shrimp from the surface on a falling tide...
Staked in 3 feet on the flats west of Key West, they're all around us.
Waiting in the din for the closer, 11 o'clock shot and finely making a back cast at 3 o'clock because you can't wait, why should you, you've been here before - many tides .
In seconds a - one long pull after the Black Toad Fly hits the water, he's on!
The big Moon is up now, silvering the Tarpon when......... all ten jump.
Two hours later and 7 Tarpon Heads touched, 3 more jumped, all loved, every wild ass one of them.
Rocketing home in the glass slick calm of Midnight after touching the heads of kings.
Saturday, April 04, 2009
Great Big Deal SHARK FISHING tournament Key West
WOW this is really something you should experience, a reel sporting event that every outdoorsmen/women should witness.
SHARK FISHING -TOURNAMENT ?
OK here's how it's done, take notes, you want a Shark Trophy and a hat and T-shirt dont you?
#1 Kill alot of Barracudas for bait.
Dont worry the commercial Shark Fin Fisherman kill thousands of Barracudas for bait in South Florida and the Florida Keys and Dry Tortugas every year.
Shark Fin Soup ya know! " Fin's sent to Japan "
So thats thousands of Barracudas and thousands of Sharks, guess that's the balance of nature
huh?
OK #2 you need a boat or, you can hire a SHARK EXPERT GUIDE... ya that's a good idea because he knows the secret spots and he also knows the secret bait!!
YA Barracudas are killed for the sporting event , dozens .....But the real pros KNOW that a Shark goes bonkers for ............chopped into chunks, bloody and smelly, really dead.
TARPON !
That to me is dismantling a..... Stradivarius to build a Ukulele sad
SHARK FISHING -TOURNAMENT ?
OK here's how it's done, take notes, you want a Shark Trophy and a hat and T-shirt dont you?
#1 Kill alot of Barracudas for bait.
Dont worry the commercial Shark Fin Fisherman kill thousands of Barracudas for bait in South Florida and the Florida Keys and Dry Tortugas every year.
Shark Fin Soup ya know! " Fin's sent to Japan "
So thats thousands of Barracudas and thousands of Sharks, guess that's the balance of nature
huh?
OK #2 you need a boat or, you can hire a SHARK EXPERT GUIDE... ya that's a good idea because he knows the secret spots and he also knows the secret bait!!
YA Barracudas are killed for the sporting event , dozens .....But the real pros KNOW that a Shark goes bonkers for ............chopped into chunks, bloody and smelly, really dead.
TARPON !
That to me is dismantling a..... Stradivarius to build a Ukulele sad
Springing Into Tarpon Key West
We Have had a few flashes of Tarpon action during February , March and that's not unusual but, NOW we're getting serious.
Maybe the cool fronts are over for the year, I doubt it but , Spring/Summer is here for sure and the Local Tarpon are beginning to be a daily look see, if not the main objective.
I have had some tremendous night fishing on Spin/Plug tackle and Fly.
I always get cranked about Tarpon even after what may be several thousand hooked over the years, on all tackle!
The other night we jumped 7 Tarpon on a new Secret plug, nut's for it they waz..
Probably the most Personally connected to a Tarpon (or any gamefish for that matter) you can be is hooking and fighting a fish on Fly Tackle.
Making a cast, retrieving and hand setting the hook by pulling on the flyline, takes you closer to " hand to fin combat " than any other method of sport angling.
Don't get me wrong, a Tarpon on light tackle of any kind is a blast everyone should try!
They are here NOW , in our showroom for your inspection.......
Maybe the cool fronts are over for the year, I doubt it but , Spring/Summer is here for sure and the Local Tarpon are beginning to be a daily look see, if not the main objective.
I have had some tremendous night fishing on Spin/Plug tackle and Fly.
I always get cranked about Tarpon even after what may be several thousand hooked over the years, on all tackle!
The other night we jumped 7 Tarpon on a new Secret plug, nut's for it they waz..
Probably the most Personally connected to a Tarpon (or any gamefish for that matter) you can be is hooking and fighting a fish on Fly Tackle.
Making a cast, retrieving and hand setting the hook by pulling on the flyline, takes you closer to " hand to fin combat " than any other method of sport angling.
Don't get me wrong, a Tarpon on light tackle of any kind is a blast everyone should try!
They are here NOW , in our showroom for your inspection.......
Saturday, February 14, 2009
Log In The Fog Barracuda
Doesn't happen every year, sometimes it won't happen in five years.
The last few days we have had to run in the fog early morning and although today it lifted late morning, yesterday the fog hung around is some areas most of the day.
The flats, once you find them, can be eerie as with low visibility and flat water sometimes you can hear strange things moving about and you can be fooled by the thick air as to how far or near the splashes and pops and swirling can be.
For some reason, as I have witnessed several times before the Black Tip and Lemon Sharks can be absolutely nuts charging around attacking anything that breaks the surface.
The Sharks and US are not the only wacko's out in the fog lots of the other guys can be very aggressive .
But the real surprise of the day was when a Tube Lure cast in the direction of some noise out in the Foggy Boggy, produced after some high speed blasts a big, by Key West standards , Bluefish that was up in 18 inches of water.
As he charged and tail walked by the skiff in a Blue Panic!
"Whats with THAT.?".....Oh Shyte a Log of a Barracuda was after and caught our Bluefish now we're fighting a 25 lb Cuda and whats left of a 6 lb Bluefish.
Is that a record? Great fun in the fog.
The last few days we have had to run in the fog early morning and although today it lifted late morning, yesterday the fog hung around is some areas most of the day.
The flats, once you find them, can be eerie as with low visibility and flat water sometimes you can hear strange things moving about and you can be fooled by the thick air as to how far or near the splashes and pops and swirling can be.
For some reason, as I have witnessed several times before the Black Tip and Lemon Sharks can be absolutely nuts charging around attacking anything that breaks the surface.
The Sharks and US are not the only wacko's out in the fog lots of the other guys can be very aggressive .
But the real surprise of the day was when a Tube Lure cast in the direction of some noise out in the Foggy Boggy, produced after some high speed blasts a big, by Key West standards , Bluefish that was up in 18 inches of water.
As he charged and tail walked by the skiff in a Blue Panic!
"Whats with THAT.?".....Oh Shyte a Log of a Barracuda was after and caught our Bluefish now we're fighting a 25 lb Cuda and whats left of a 6 lb Bluefish.
Is that a record? Great fun in the fog.
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Exploding Flats Fish Key West
Really unbelievable , Yesterday with a warm if not blowy Southeast Wind we had fish, big fish, little fish. long and wide fish.
Pompano, tackle busting Blue Fish schools, Sharks and lots of Jack Crevall......Jacks big enough to swaller a Pepsi Bottle.
That was yesterday, heading out today I expected after last nights low speed muggy SW wind even MORE gobbling.
Secret spot showed us a few schools of Blue Runners early in the tide but as the water came up out of the Gulf, in came over the top of the flats school after school of Jack Crevalls, many very large fish.
Sharks, Barracudas, Bluefish and Pompano Arse Ol's and Elbow's
Fly Rods and the little Weenie spin rods we stole from the Crappie Fisherman, bent double!
Then....Oh SHYTE! TARPON and several schools of Permit maybe 60 fish in all from 8lbs to near 30 lbs.
WE could not feed the Tarpon or Permit, they probably had heard about us.
Pass me the Pompano Platter Please......
Pompano, tackle busting Blue Fish schools, Sharks and lots of Jack Crevall......Jacks big enough to swaller a Pepsi Bottle.
That was yesterday, heading out today I expected after last nights low speed muggy SW wind even MORE gobbling.
Secret spot showed us a few schools of Blue Runners early in the tide but as the water came up out of the Gulf, in came over the top of the flats school after school of Jack Crevalls, many very large fish.
Sharks, Barracudas, Bluefish and Pompano Arse Ol's and Elbow's
Fly Rods and the little Weenie spin rods we stole from the Crappie Fisherman, bent double!
Then....Oh SHYTE! TARPON and several schools of Permit maybe 60 fish in all from 8lbs to near 30 lbs.
WE could not feed the Tarpon or Permit, they probably had heard about us.
Pass me the Pompano Platter Please......
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