Capt. Rey's Fishing Report Archives

This area is dedicated to archiving my weekly fishing reports on trips and includes information on the fishing conditions, types of fish seen and caught, tackle used, flies that are worked and other things of interest. If you have any comments about my reports you can either  email  me or comment in my  guestbook. Click here to go back to the  current report.

Week Ending - May 4th, 1999 

Imagine being on the water by sunrise, the quietness of the morning, only being disturbed by the sound of tarpon gulping for air,or maybe it's an early afternoon, a nice sea breeze starts blowing, and the tide is moving out , creating the perfect dining conditions for snook, trout, and redfish. You can take your pick, because that is exactly what happened this week in paradise.

Steve and his wife Lindy are from South Carolina, Steve is an avid bass fisherman, so I was anxious for him to experience some snook fishing. It was early afternoon when we went to the "PASS". The tide was moving out so we drifted our baits, and for two hours we had bites in every drift. We caught snook , trout, and jack crevalle, there was also some Spanish mako available. We had a nice afternoon and Steve had his first taste of snook fishing. What a treat.

The month of May belongs to the tarpon, the schools are here at the gathering place, and the fever has gotten out of control . I took Peter and Doreen Barker, they are from the Highlands of Scotland. Salmon fishing is Peter's passion , but having tasted tarpon fishing in the past, his vacation could not be complete without a tarpon outing. It was calm as it could possibly be when we got to the "SPOT". Tarpon were lay up in the surface like logs, others were rolling and finning all over . Within 10 minutes, we were hookup, Doreen was on too. The tarpon was about 75 lbs and it took us about 1 1/2 hours to bring him next to the boat, when it finally broke off.

Doreen did a great job, she was excited, and her adrenaline was carrying her through. I'm sure this will be as memorable for them, as it was for me.

Tight lines,
Capt. Rey Rodriguez

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Capt. Rey