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Week Ending - March 20th, 1999
Fishing has a way of creating lasting memories. From
young to old, the magic of a day on the water never looses it's luster.
My week started with my client Roger Strand. Roger is a retired
surgeon that has been fly fishing longer than I have been alive. Since all his fly fishing
experiences has been done on fresh water, our search was his first redfish on fly.
We had a picture perfect morning with a nice low tide, redfish were tailing and traveling
all over the flats. Roger witnessed this with the eyes of a child, a new memory that will
remain with him for the rest of his fishing life. We tried very hard to connect with the redfish, but it
did not happen. Nevertheless the transition to saltwater fly fishing has started for
Roger, and maybe next time he will be able to cast the distance needed to catch the reds
My next trip included a grandfather, father and son trio. Mark
Peters had called me for a live bait charter, and snook was their target. Charlie is
Marks' son, he is a teenager, and this was to be his first experience with a snook. With
memories of my own first experiences, Charlie became my priority. After netting a livewell
full of pilchards we headed for Pine Island Sound. On our first stop, I baited Charlie's
hook with a lively pilchard and on his first cast we had a hookup. His FACE said it all,
laughing and struggling to keep the snook away form the mangroves, Charlie finally won the
battle, and a 29 inch snook was landed. It was a great day with over 10 snook and also Mark Peters accomplished a slam (snook, red, trout) .
The next day I had Tom Sidar, and his two sons, Matt and Jack. We
caught a couple of snook, and several redfish along with some seatrouts. Matt outfished
his brother and his dad this time, but they said that they will be back for a rematch.
Saturday was my birthday, so I took the day off, and guess what ?
I went fishing, with my friend Mike Dewese, we went in search of tarpon. Warm weather this
week had raised my expectation for an early tarpon bite. Tarpon love threadfin herring, so
after netting some, we headed for the SPOT. It was a slick, calm morning and the tarpon
were there, free jumping and rolling everywhere. We jumped 3 tarpon, that looked about
80-90 LB, but we did not land any of them.
Still I think that was the Lord's way of wishing me a happy birthday.
Tight Lines,
Capt. Rey Rodriguez
Seats are limited, so give me a call, or drop me an email, and let's GO FISHING !
Capt. Rey
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