Hello Anglers,

Snook, Snook and more Snook! The "Snookies" have been our main target and a great choice. Due to the warmer water temperatures and the good supply of sardines, the Snook are in a great mood and feeding heavily as they must put on some weight before they spawn. The Snook loves this transition time, they are able to leave the deeper water and canals and move to better feeding areas. This type of fishing is very exciting and can go from open flats to a "mano a mano" fight on close quarters.

Some of the creeks mouths and channels are so narrow you can barely turn the boat around, but the "Linesider" loves this places and will hold on them during moving tides. The "forbidden zone" has been producing for me real well, we have hooked 30+ fish there on some tides this past week. Like I said before this is and "alley fight" type of fishing, and if you are not ready for the bite they will cut off your line so fast you won't even know what happened! Fortunately the Snook are also holding along some bars and open shorelines where it is a lot easier to bring a big one to the boat, of course the numbers are not as good there yet but they are getting better. We caught a 10 lb yesterday in the open water by a completely novice angler on her first Snook experience.

One great Snook day this past week was with longtime customer and friend Cameron Cambell and his friend Jeff. They hooked Snook for around 3 straight hours in almost every cast, we did lost many to the mangrove roots but also manage to catch a bunch of them. This was close quarters fishing and the guys found it incredibly challenging and exciting, so they be back fo more later in the month.

The Tarpon are also making sure we know they have arrive, with free jumpers and feeding fish showing up along some inside flats. They are also showing outside along their migration route. They are still a bit scattered for consistent fly fishing but they are bitting well on bottom baits and drifting live baits along the deeper flats.

I also had a nice time with Joe Saunders and his boys Joseph and Matt. The boys are 8 and 5 years of age so we decided to fish for Seatrout and whatever else will bite for good action. They caught around 35 Seatrout and some Ladyfish drifting along the grass flats. Five year old Matt had the hot hand, it seems that every bait he put on the water was eaten inmediately! But Joseph was not far behind and did a good job with his bites. Great job guys!

Well thanks for reading the report and please note that I had to change my email address to: captrey@embarqmail.com Look forward to you guys emails, there are openings for Tarpon (few) so do not delay!

See you guys soon,
God Bless!

Tight Lines,
Capt. Rey

Seats are limited, so give me a call, or drop me an email, and let's GO FISHING !