Steve brought his 12 year old grandson Jaxon down to the Keys for his first ever salt water fishing trip..  Might be his first but certainly not his last..  Jaxon had a blast sight fishing to sharks.. blacktips, lemons and bonnet heads..  First day, first shark was a 7 foot blacktip hooked in less then 3 foot of water..  It was fun.. 

                                                    Jaxon and Steve with Jaxon's first cuda.

Later we switched to sight fishing cudas..  It is that time of year and these tanker cudas are starting to show up on the flats..  Jaxon did a great job feeding this cuda.. 

Most unusal catch of the month....  We got this box fish while looking for bonefish on an ocean side flat..

Speaking of unusual, It has been a strange October.  NE winds just about every day for weeks..  Still finding bonefish, permit and juvenile tarpon....  Some days we are having to work harder to find them.... but we are finding them..

Over the year I have seen fish spooked and oppertunities lost, lots of different ways..  Cormeants busting out of the mangroves, spooking bonefish, pelicans flying over head and shadowing tailing reds,  inconsiderate boaters/jet skis running over incoming schools of tarpon, anglers slaming the cooler lid (this one is the most common) and even helocopters hovering down to watch us cast at tarpon... 

                                                       Jess with her first tarpon on fly!

Last week end was a new experence..  I was fishing with Dan and Jess from N.J.  We were looking for permit in the mouth of a lagoon on the falling tide... Permit will get in this bottle neck to feed on crabs getting washed out...    We found a very hungry permit tailing and diiging hard...  As I slipped the skiff into position for Dan to make the cast.. a big key deer that was out of sight around the point, busted out and trampled our permit making it's escape.