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Subject: The latest action from www.AnglingAdventure.com
It just keeps getting better and better!!!
It doesn’t seem to matter what type of fishing you like to do, right now would be a good time to get out and do it! Up and down the West Central coast of Florida, whether you want to fish inshore, or offshore, try and get out to do it soon. In fact rather than try and put a whole lot of effort into my writing here, we’ve got soooooo much to report on, I’ll try and do here it in as brief a style as possible.
Where do I start?
The obvious place would be with the tarpon that are preoccupying a lot of our thoughts right now, but there are so many other fish out there to entertain us that I need to cover a lot of ground in this report. Basically, the kingfish are a little past their peak offshore, but the snapper and grouper action has been fine and the A.J.’s and dolphin are strong options as well. If you head offshore right now, chance are still good that you’ll bump into a few cobia and if the jewfish will let you get them all the way to the boat, you should consider yourself doubly lucky. From the nearshore waters all the way up onto the flats tarpon are of course, the main attraction, but certainly not the only game in town! You can choose to hunt some permit right now, or if your are looking for some of the hottest action around, get yourself in on some of our catch and release snook action.
My partners are way busy from South to North…
Like I said above, rather than try and get real descriptive with what it’s like to fish around here right now, I’m just going to try and give you some bullet points as my partners have reported it to me.
Down in the Boca Grande area Captains Mike Wise and Billy Nobles are as Billy puts it, “burning them down”! While both of them are busy as all get out doing the tarpon dance with clients both in, and around the pass, Mike has given me more material to write about than I can possibly cover here! To summarize without giving a lot of detail I’d say, tarpon, tarpon, tarpon, shark, tarpon, would just about cover it, but then again there are a lot of other fish there too. Mike’s action has included some cool cobia action up inside of Charlotte Harbor itself and some notable tripletail bites too. The notable thing about the tripletail that have been hanging around one specific cobia hole wasn’t the fact that Mike landed a pair of 7 pound brutes, but the fact that he landed one fish that was bigger than those two combined. Oh yeah, we’re talking about a 16 pound tripletail! Want more than the tripletail, how ‘bout snook so big that he had empty his pockets and jump overboard “Jose Wejebe style” and follow a fish through the legs of a dock in the heat of the battle?! Okay, if that’s not enough I’ll go back to the tarpon thing. After all, tarpon are king at this point in the spring, especially in Boca Grande. While fishing the pass is very different than fishing tarpon up on clear and shallow flats, the experience of being in Boca Grande Pass right now is something that everyone needs to experience, and is one of the best chances you’ll ever have for landing multiple fish in a single charter. When the bite is on down there, it can be incredible.
Capt. Chris Seger out of Sarasota has been busy running both inshore and offshore trips for a while now. The last couple of weeks on his 16 foot Talon flats boat he’s had everything from 150 pound tarpon to tons of snook come over the rail. One of the coolest aspects of Chris’ action is the fact that he’s the first guide on the team to have reported boating a triple digit tarpon on fly tackle, and that his snook totals are steadily into the dozens right up along his favorite sandy beaches. Hmmm, what to do? Cast one way to the snook, or look over your shoulder and cast to the pods of tarpon cruising past… What a decision to have to make! Offshore anglers aboard Chris’ big 32 foot Merrill Stevens sportfish have been equally as busy. Some days it’ll be the A.J.’s slamming every bait you toss, while other days around this full moon period, it’ll be the 4-7 pound snapper coming up and swiping your baits just below the surface. If you get your bait deep enough, don’t be surprised if the grouper decide to snarf your bait, or if you end up hooking into a “keeper” sized cobia. As much as you never know what’s gonna take your bait though, those big snapper have got to be the stars of the show. Then again, who can argue with fresh snapper at supper time too?
Just a little further North in the waters off Bradenton Capt. Steve Barron’s highlights have included days like the one he had with one of his favorite repeat clients, Chris Arendt, and Chris’ guest Doc Serkia. It was just one of those days, a 31 inch snook, a 33 inch snook, and then a 34 inch snook. Oh yeah, then there were the two 120 pound tarpon they boated too! One of the most amazing aspects of all these fish was the fact that the two tarpon they boated fought for as long as the one Steve boated with customers the week before. You see these fish went well over an hour (one went an hour and twenty minutes) battling Steve’s clients on 20-30 pound spinning tackle, while the week before he boated a nearly identical fish with his customers on a 12 pound test snook outfit with a 1/0 hook!!! Go figure.
Capt. Jason Ramsey has been doing the tarpon dance all over the place as well in addition to some great snookin’, but his biggest diversion from this “usual” action has come in the form of jewfish. It seems that somehow, some way, Jason’s clients have managed to boat three of these monster size members of the grouper family over just the last couple of weeks. Now when I say, “monster size” I mean it. Take into consideration that one of them went about 50-60 pounds, one went into the 150 bracket, and one was somewhere above 250! Add to all of that the fact that the biggest fish was landed on a 30 pound test G.Loomis spinning rod and you have the makings of an awesome fishing accomplishment. Aside from all of that though, one of the things that we do on the water that gives us the greatest sense of accomplishment has to be getting an angler his or her first tarpon, and that’s exactly what Jason just did today with one of his favorite repeat clients, Ted Watson from the Bayer Corporation. Congratulations Ted on boating an awesome fish in the 150 plus pound bracket. I can’t wait to see the photos!
Capt. Brian Kisluk, like many of us wears the title of “tarpon addict” and this week he too was getting a fix for his addiction. In Brian’s case he had a three fish boated kind of day just this week while fishing with Mike Turbin and his buddy Pete Fulmer. Now this wasn’t one of those every bait you toss get’s eaten kind of day, this was a classic case of paying your dues! I can vouch for the fact that we are far less profitable around here once the tarpon migrate out to the flats (especially with fuel costs going nuts!), because there are a lot of days that require a whole lot of “hunting” before the “fishing” really gets good. Well, when Mike and Pete fished with Brian, it was a good thing that they were as patient as they were. After boarding Brian’s Mercury powered C-Hawk just as the son was touching the horizon that morning, they searched and they searched. By 11:30 they still hadn’t even touched a rod. Then after covering water all the way from Egmont Key to New Pass down in Sarasota not once, but twice, they finally got on some “happy” fish. Needless to say, all that traveling finally paid-off with 3 fish boated over the last three hours of their trip! Congrats guys on a great trip.
Last, but certainly not least, Capt. Sam Kimball out of Annie’s Bait and Tackle in Cortez took a little time off from the snapper, kingfish kind of offshore action that he specializes in, and he did a little tarpon fishing too. Well, when I say he took a “little” time off, I guess that would be an understatement. You see he had a party of 5 anglers on one day last week when they hooked up with a monster tarpon by anybody’s definition. How monstrous you ask? How about the fact that the “lucky” angler that hooked up stood toe to fin with the beast for the first four hours of the battle without any assistance, or the fact that all four of his buddies took their turns trying to tire the big fish for the next 2 ½ hours after that! We’re talking about a fish that kept unbelievable pressure on a 30 pound Crowder spinning rod for 6 ½ hours! Time is however your enemy when fighting tarpon, so despite a truly heroic effort, and a really, really big hammerhead, they never had the challenge, or the pleasure of boating the big silver king for their Kodak moment. Any way you look at it though, Capt. Sam and those guys certainly waged what so far, has to be the battle of the year!
Get in touch with us soon!
Well, I hope that gives you some idea of the world-class action we’ve got going on right now. If you’d like to book a trip that you’ll not soon forget come and visit my website http://www.AnglingAdventure.com and we’ll get you hooked-up! Either way, we’ll be out there to let you know what’s going on.
Like my friend Capt. Mark always said,
Catch ‘em up!
Capt. John Sackett
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