Fish Tales

April 6th, 2009

Galapagos Marlin Report

Fellow Anglers:

Most destinations offer you a fishing report or sailfish report. Not many can post an almost only marlin report. This is not to say we do not catch species such as tuna, in fact we have very good tuna, wahoo as well as bottom fish.

April 20th, 2009

Florida Keys Tarpon Report

Greetings from Tarpon World:

We arrived here in Marathon (Florida Keys) on Tuesday evening and then moved into the same rental house as last year. On the 15th I launched my Jones Brothers Cape Fisherman "Fly Reel" , put her in the slip, and rigged that boat for Tarpon season.

April 13th, 2009

Happy Easter

I hope you and your family are having a wonderful holiday, my mother, sister, and brother in law are here spending Easter with me in North Carolina. Early tomorrow morning Heather and Ken will head home to Virginia while Mom and I will head to the Florida Keys. We will arrive in Marathon on Tuesday evening and my Tarpon season begins on April 16th.

April 13th, 2009

Good Morning:

This year is the first time in decades that my Tarpon season was not sold out more than six months in advance, however with our economic downturn many Tarpon anglers have decided not to come to the Keys for Tarpon this year.

April 13th, 2009

WEATHER: Scattered clouds were overhead this week almost every day, but they managed to disappear at the end of the week. We had strong winds almost every day that started about noon and blew until sunrise. Daytime highs were in the mid 80’s and the nighttime lows were around the low 70’s.

April 6th, 2009

North Carolina Shad Fishing Report
April 2, 3, 4, 2009

Greetings from North Carolina:

This is my second year fly fishing on the Roanoke River in Weldon NC during the annual Hickory Shad migration. This weekend is the annual outing of the Cape Lookout Fly Fishers club and this year close to twenty club members were spotted catching these poor man's Tarpon.

April 2nd, 2009

WEATHER: We had partly cloudy skies for most of the week but there was enough sun for everyone to stay happy. No rain came with the clouds we did get, but I heard there was a little up in the mountains. Our daytime highs remained in the mid 80’s and our nighttime lows in the mid 60’s. The winds stayed down for the most part and the wind we did get seemed to happen later in the afternoon.

After a three mile run and coming into about 200 feet of water, we decided to deploy the spread. I wanted to mix it up a bit as the country had been mixed up a bit a few days prior as Sandinista Daniel Ortega was elected President. I was looking for something in the tackle bag and came across a black and red Islander.