Here are a few more pics from my Florida trip. I wasn't able to get them all on one blog. I forgot to mention that other than the Tarpon the other 94 or so fish were caught on one drift.
Florida Tarpon Fishing
Here a few pics from last month while I was down in Florida visiting family. While I was there my dad, nephew and myself made a few trips to the Indian River, which is a few miles from his house and is an absolute fish haven. While I was there met up with a rep from DOA Lures and he gave us the baits we needed and the direction we needed to head to catch fish. We caught well over a hundred fish one morning including Tarpon, Lookdown's, Pompano's, Ladyfish, Snapper, Specks(up to 5 1/2 lbs), and a few more I have never heard of. All fish were caught on plastics and topwater besides the Tarpon. We had a blast, we were using med. action trout rods with 15lb. braid with 30lb. fluorocarbon litre. Anyone heading that way let me know and I can set you up with one of the best there is down there.
8-26-08
Had an Awesome morning on the water today with B-Rad and Austin. He told B-rad sounded a lot cooler than Brad!! We had perfect conditions today, slick calm with a ripple here and there. We had our limit within the first hour and continued catching them on after. I pulled out a top water plug and they were killing it until one decided that he wanted it more than we did. They (the fish) were hitting the plug clear out of the water and kept coming back for it. We were catching two at a time every other cast for at least 45 minutes to an hour. After all of that fun B-RAD wanted to catch a flounder so we moved on to try and find him one, and one is what we found. He caught one that went around 17 inches, I'm sure he will be frying that one up for din din. Today was an absolute perfect day for fishing down here and we don't see that everyday. We threw jigs and jerk baits all day to catch what we did and man was it a blast.
8-22-08
Had great day on the water today with Birthday boy Brent, along with his mom, dad and brother. Once again the wind was howling but that didn't stop them from wearing out the trout. Nobody counted today but we were surely in the 40's by the end of the trip. Had a lot of double up action today with fish up to 2 1/2 lbs. That is always a good fight. Along with the trout we caught Bluefish up to 2lbs. Had a great time today with the Funkhousers and look forward to next time.
8-21-08
Had a great day on the water today with Scott, Christian and Justin. There was a lot of smack being talked by the boys,but they backed it up. We were throwing some new DOA lures that I picked up down in Florida and man can they catch fish. We ended up with 25 or so Specks up to 2 1/2 lbs today with a few double ups as well. Along with the trout we caught a few blues up to 2 lbs as well. We left there and went on to catch a few more fish along with a nice little drum to finish the day out.
8-20-08
Had the pleasure to fish with Frank and James today. They had never caught a Speckled trout before so we went looking. They picked the right day for it, it was on fire. We caught a quick 12 fish for the table and threw the rest back. We caught well over 30 trout up to 3lbs today and that was leaving them biting to go flounder fishing. We caught some flounder, no keepers though. We only spent about 30 minutes doing that and then went looking for some drum, saw a few, but had no luck catching them. All in all it was a great day fishing, little windy but they were chomping. We could have easily caught 60 or so trout.
8-18-08 Trout fishing
Went out today looking for new places to fish with a buddy of mine, didn't do to bad. We found one spot that we were catching trout every other cast, short lived though. Had a good time and am ready for more.
Kingfish Tourney
I fished a Kingfish tourney this weekend with some friends down in Sneads Ferry, N.C., Didn't win anything but here is a pic of one of the fish we caught. It was 16lbs., only about 30 some short of winning. I think we finished around 35 or so out of 160. Had fun, that is all that matters.
August 14th
Went fun fishing this afternoon for an hour or so with some friends that were in town and my neighbor Mr. Jack. Started slow but picked up quickly as we found a school of small puppy drum wondering around. Ended up with a few drum and nice trout. This trips main goal was to allow the little ones to go on a boat ride, which they loved and catch a few fish . Anytime you can take a kid fishing jump on the opportunity.
August 12
Had the pleasure to fish with Keith and his sons today, they wanted something that would tug, so we went out looking for more donkeys. We hooked 12 and got 4 or 5 to the boat. They were laying on the bottom and by time you got hooked up the line was frayed pretty good.
August 13
Here is Mr. Clay man, I'm not quite sure what part of the beach he caught this on, he wouldn't tell me. Looks like he had his hands full, I hear he had another that was over 30lbs as well.
MR. SHORT
Here is a pic that was in the lost and found. I fished with Chris and family a few weeks back during the tropical storm. It took awhile to get where we were going, but once we were there it paid off, I think we had 15 or so keeper trout and a flounder.
August 8th
Fished with Danny and his crew today, the wind had a mind of it's own. We made the best of it, came away with 38 nice keeper trout. Just about all of the trout were in the 1 1/2 to 2 lbs. range. Made the best of it and had a great day.
Here is a pic I didn't get on from the Thursday trip.
August 7th
I had the pleasure to fish with Bill Bean on Thursday, a flyrod legend when it comes to saltwater. I ran him out into the blue to hook up with a few donkeys "amberjack". We caught and released well over 30 of them. Overall had great day on the water.
July and August fishing report
The past two months have been hit or miss. We have had a bad run of SW wind for the last month, that hasn't helped the fishing. Overall it has been ok. I have had some great trips and some so so trips as far as the fishing goes. Everyone that I have fished with has been great and we all have had a good time. The trout are really starting to pick up here within the last two weeks. We have been getting 20 to 40 keepers per trip, and they keep getting fatter as the days go by. I am going to try my best to keep up with the fishing report. I have finally found a way to report it easily. Here are som pics from the past trips. Hope you enjoy them.
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