Happy New Year!

Best wishes for a Happy New Year and a special thanks to every one that fished with me this year!

I had a great time!

Weather here in the Lower Florida Keys, continues to be warm and pleasent.  We have only had one minor cold front this winter.  Temperatures dropped into the high 60s a few nights...  our current day time temperatures have been around 80 degrees..   

Which makes for some good fishing..  The Tarpon fishing has been very good this week.  Tuesday we found a bunch rolling along the shoreline out of the wind.
David from Toronto is new to fly fishing but hooked quite a few and landed his first Tarpon on fly,,

YAY!

Got to fish with Mark this week too!  He is my longest regular client..  We have been fishing togeather since I started guiding in the Keys over 20 years ago.

Weather was warm, sea was flat and fly fishing for baby tarpon was good..  Mark hooked a bunch of tarpon..

The next day we fished for redfish and bonefish..  Got some shots at a bonefish and caught a redfish.  While Mark was fighting the redfish a shark came in an ate the tail off it, before we could get it in the boat.  (I am eating the rest of it tonight)

The shark kept circling the boat looking for the rest of his meal..  I gave Mark a fly rod rigged with wire for sharks..  Shark ate it on the first cast..

Fun day!

While most of the country has been enduring cold weather and snow, it has remained warm here in the Florida Keys.

This has made for some good tarpon fishing this month.. 

Been some redfish on the flats too..  They love flies and jigs..

It is that time of year.  The big barracudas are on the flats..  Sight fishing baaracudas is a blast!  We can catch them on tube lures, spoons and surface plugs

They are big, strong, fast, make long runs and big jumps.  If you like pike fishing, you will love barracuda fishing..

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