Ranger

This is a picture of two Rangers that have been stopping and checking out boaters in the park.  Make sure your safety equippment is ok and your fish are legal.

Wahoo

This 168 pound Wahoo was caught in Bimini the other day by a friend of Rudy.  Trying to find out the name.

5 Pound Walleye

Captain Bob Randall caught this 5 pound Walleye ice fishing on Bear Lake MI.
Bob will be fishing the Keys next month.  Watch out Snook.

Saw Fish

Jim also hooked this saw fish yesterday and released it unharmed.  He saw a few of them in shallow water.

Trout

Captain Jim Dowling from Cromwell Court has been catching his share of nice size Trout this year.  He caught this one near Lake Key with a shrimp tipped jig.  He was fishing with his friend Greg who caught his limit of trout.

35 Inch Snook

Ray and Ed did some trolling in the Cape Coral canals and caught a few Snook including this 35 incher.  They had it on the dock because they had to surgically remove the treble hooks.  It was released unharmed.

Sea Urchin

Pat and I fished for awhile tonight and then did some bullynetting and caught these three lobster.
That is a Sea Urchin that I scooped up.  I stepped on a few of them in Jamaica, it was not fun.  Those spines are like glass and they get enbedded in your foot until they work themselves out.  And they cause a great burning sensation in your foot until you pour vinegar on it.

First Snook

Captain Glenn Warrington got the first Snook Of the season.  It was 22 inches.

PERMIT

Captain Dave Perkins had a shrimp charter last night but the shrimp weren't running so Dr. Brian Rank threw out a gulp shrimp on a light Trout rod and caught this 30 pound permit.  It took about twenty minutes to land it.

Red Fish

John, a snow bird from Tennessee, just got a boat and already he is out catching Red Fish.

Nice Dolphin

Charlie Wilson caught this beauty recently.

Big Red Fish

12 year old Eddie Demiglio fished with his dad eddie and caught a few very nice Reds on spoons and plastic.  All were released unharmed.

Captains Three

Captains Gus, Carlos and Eddie went off shore yesterday and caught 6 King Fish, 6 Mangrove Snapper and a few Yellowtail.

Mixed Bag

Ray and a few friends, Louie, Bruce and Jim from North Dakota fished near Pine Island and caught Jack, Sharks and Trout. That is Jim with the Bonnet Shark and Louie with a small Permit.  Bruce, not pictured caught some trout and Lady Fish.

13 POUND MUTTON

Captain Carlos Jemenez  is holding a 13 pound Mutton Snapper he caught yesterday.

TROUT

Pat caught this 22 inch trout with a jig tipped with a shrimp.

A RED FOR GUS

Gus and I went out to catch a few Redfish today.  Since he had a bad back I did not want to put him into some very heavy fish.  He caught this 8 pounder right away.  We released it hoping we would get a few more but that was it.

SAWFISH

RED FISH

I went backcountry alone this morning and caught a few Red Fish.  I released them all except one that swallowed my plug.
I saw a Saw Fish swimming along side my boat for about 100 yards then later on I saw what I thought was a Red Fish in the mud and threw a plug to it and started to reel in and it was another Saw Fish that I snagged.  Luckily it came loose and swam off.

Sheryl, her uncle and Craig went out to get some lobster yesterday and also did some spear fishing.

Pat and I did some Grouper fishing this morning and caught these two under size Gags.

Nice Catch

Bob caught these seven and eight pound Steelhead and three pound Brown Trout yesterday in the Little Manistee River.

Self Portrait

Captain Randall took this self portrait of himself and a seven pound Steelhead.  This looks like it should be hanging in a museum.

My cousins Ray and Judy and I did some backcountry fishing today.  We caught a lot of Jacks, Ladyfish and one Black Tip Shark.  We also caught this small Gag Grouper.

Captain Gus Ramirez and Captain Carlos had a good day yesterday aboard 'Wahoo VIII".  They caught nineteen Dolphin, some Kingfish and a ten pound Mutton Snapper.

SHARK

Danny Ritter from Miami fished with Captain Dave Perkins Saturday and caught his first Black Tip Shark.  It  gave him quite a fight even jumping a few times like Tarpon.
Captain Perkins is back in the Keys after doing a bit of fishing on Lake Michigan.  If you want to go back country or offshore Captain Perkins is the guide you want to fish with.
Check out his website in the links section "Keys Fishing Guide" or copy and paste www.captaindaveperkins.net

Blue Fish

On Wednesday Ray, Judy and I fished Pine Island Sound and caught a mixed bag.  Of course Judy is always the first to catch a trout.  I am holding a gulf of Mexico Bluefish that must have wandered in to the sound.
We were were doing good until it started to rain and we started to freeze.

Red

I went over to the west coast Tuesday and fished with my cousin Ray in his canal and caught this Redfish.

Captain Dave Perkins and his girlfriend Wilamarie hold a 15 lb. Salmon caught from the shore of Lake Michigan.

REDFISH

Captain Dave Perkins holds a Redfish caught by Michael Charley

Snapper

Captain Dave Perkins just returned from Chicago where he did a lot of fishing.  He wasted no time getting back to Keys fishing with Captain Roger Dominguez.  They caught this nice batch of Snapper and Yellotail.

Hi, I am Molly.  This my dad he went fishing with my grampa. They caught 4 grouper and released  them all.

Good Day

Pat took some time off today and joined me for a short trip backcountry. The fish were hungry today, we caught the first one 5 minutes after we got there.  The top photo is an undersized Gag that Pat caught and released.  The second photo is a 22 inch Gag that I caught and released.  The third is of a Nurse Shark that was at least 6 feet long.  I had to cut the line to release it because it got tangled around the anchor line.
The bottom photo is a 24 inch Red Grouper that we kept. I had the pole in the rod holder attached to the console.  When the fish hit it snapped the top guide off the pole.  This fish got wrapped around the same structure that the other two got wrapped around yesterday.  We used the same bait today, big Pin Fish.

26 INCH GAG

I went out looking for some Grouper today by myself, Pat was busy sewing.
I had two lines in the water with big Pin Fish as bait.  I didn't get a bite for over an hour and then I finally got an 18 inch Gag that I released.  Then I had a tremendous hit.  I could not even get the rod out of the rod holder.  The fish must have wrapped itself around some structure and finally the line snapped.
Two minutes later I had another rod bender and it got wrapped around something in the same area, but I started circling the area with the electric motor trying to get untangled.  I had the fish on for at least a half-hour.  I could not give up because I left my tackle box on the dock so I didn't even have a knife with me to cut the line.  I tried to snap the line but it would not break. After a while I opened the bail and put the rod in the rod holder.  I picked it up about 5 minutes later and the fish was loose.  It was a 26 inch Gag Grouper.

I have a lot of Pin Fish if anyone needs any.  Last week Captain Carlos put a Pin Fish trap off my dock but when he pulled it up before he went fishing it was empty.  When he came back from fishing he pulled it up and I had to run downstairs to help him pull it up because it was so heavy.  You could not have fit another fish in the trap.

Captain Gus fished with Captain Carlos yesterday aboard WAHOO VIII and caught some nice Mutton Snapper and a few Yellow Jack.