December 24, 2006
Three trips this week and Santa was good to all three parties. Monday and Tuesday were almost carbon copies of one another – both were half day trips on the Banana River and both scored double-digit catches of redfish (and a few trout) on artificials, sight-fishing the sandy ‘pot holes’ in shallow water. The fish […]
August 24, 2006
The Banana River is located east of the Indian River and flows from north Merritt Island and Cape Canaveral through the Cocoa beach area and south to Satellite Beach (central east coast of Florida). Although it is not as well known as Mosquito Lagoon or Sebastian Inlet, it is quite fishy nonetheless. We had a […]
August 18, 2006
While Capt. Roland and I were occupied down south, Capt. Peter Deeks, Jr., took a pair of clients out of Titusville for an afternoon redfish trip. Now we thought we had had a phenomenal day but theirs twas equally good! The final tally for their trip was a dozen or so hard-fighting reds between 18-35 […]
August 16, 2006
I had the rare privilege of having my guide/business partner Capt. Roland along with me on a charter to the Ft. Pierce area on Wednesday. We picked up our client, Don Raubach of Baltimore, at dawn and headed north in the Indian River to do a little flats fishing. After several miles on tranquil waters […]
July 29, 2006
It seems the only thing hotter than the temperatures along our coasts this time of year is the fishing – and it has been scorching hot! The monster redfish (some weighing in the 30-40 lb range) are schooling in several choice locations in the northern Indian River Lagoon system while their hard-fighting ‘slot-sized’ cousins seem […]