Blog and Fishing Reports

Great day fishing around Anna Maria Island today, my morning trip started off by fishing a nearshore reef just off the coast of Holmes Beach. Here we were able to limit out on the elusive Permit. These fish are very special to me considering we don't not see them...

I had some of my favorite clients out today, Brian and his son Cameron. They wanted to try to head off the beach of Anna Maria Island to some nearshore hard bottom to try for some Hogfish, we made it about 4 miles out before we decided that the weather was just a bit...

Well we didn't really finish the year off how I expected. Tough conditions all day with a 15-20 kt wind out of the south east. My first trip we spent about an hour braving the 3-4 ft seas to catch the elusive Permit but we stuck out. We headed back inland to get out...

Man what a day, I had the pleasure of fishing with Brian and his sons Patrick and Tim. It was a little brisk to start the morning on Anna Maria Island for me but the guys from Boston said it was quite balmy. We started our day by scraping a few dock to catch some...

Had a late morning start due to the 50 degree temperatures, but the fish definitely did not seem to mind. My crew caught a dozen Sheep head on our first stop, filling the ice box up to have a fish fry. Sheephead are great table fair, very mild white meat. Sheephead...

Such an awesome way to spend Christmas eve.  A great prefrontal bite fishing around Anna Maria Island. Not much bait around, so we settled for 20 dozen shrimp and started our hunt. We ended up catching a dozen or so nice Sheephead at a our first spot.Then we moved on...

This weeks bite has been great through out Tampa Bay. From Kingfish on the beach to Redfish in the back water. Today we caught a variety of fish. Tons of Spanish Mackerel, a few mangrove snapper, and a limit of Gag Grouper. We also managed to put a hand full of snook...

Today we had Jeremy and his family from North Carolina out. We started the day with catching dinner for the entire family and ended up doing very well. We had 30 keeper mangrove snapper in about 2 hours, that is a 6 person limit! Needles to say the Mangos are fired up...

Today we had Will and May out for a inshore fishing trip through out Tampa Bay. Our first spot was a reef in the bay where we caught their limit of Mangrove snapper. We were using live pilchards on a knocker rig, with a 1 once egg sinker, 1/0 Mustad circle hook, and a...

So far October has been a great month for fishing around Anna Maria Island. plenty of bait through out the flats, though it is still that 1/4 stuff. We have been focusing on catching Mangrove snapper and trout for the cooler since the Florida Wildlife Commission has...