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Hi Everyone!   Just a little note to say hi, and of course to share a few pictures of our fantastic winter fishing trips!         The weather seems to have shifted to spring like patterns in February- who'd a thunk it?!  With that being said "fish read the conditions rather than the calendar" so it could mean an early season for many of the migratory species. The water temperatures are unseasonable high compared to th...

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This Lake Allatoona fishing guides report for striper and hybrid has been brought to you exclusively by Robert Eidson of First Bite Guide Service, 770 827-6282. www.firstbiteguideservice.com Lake Allatoona, Georgia email: eidson6260@comcast.net.   Line side fishing is Great !!! This has been the best February I can ever remember for line-sides on Lake Allatoona. The fish are starting to stack up in the bays near Little River. The sea gulls are showcasing these fish and are easy...

Hello Everyone, The river flow is around 487 cfs as of today. The water is pretty clear with 3-4 foot visibility. Some moss, but not to bad. The upper areas have been fishing fair to good using a #16-18 golden nugget egg, trailed by a #24-26 zebra midge with silver wire wrap. Around 9;30am -10:00 the midges start coming off. Some days the hatch has been strong, other days not so good. #24-26 black Krystal flash midge has working good. Cream , gray, and olive larva's working...

In many parts of the world Spring means cold water. As water cools presentation must change for you to be successful. Here are a few tips of mine to get these neutral or less active fish to bite. Should you have a question please e-mail me from my Website contact us page. Read all my articles and see video fish reports at http://www.jimhirt.com Cold water…. Hot bite In previous articles we covered general overview and the specifics of temperature breaks and their location. No...

Fish Fort Lauderdale with Capt. Mike 954.522.4773 Jan 14 Barbara, Myra, Mark, Noah and Steve fished Fort lauderdale with us this morning for a good pick on some nice king mackeral. The afternoon trip brought Dick, Dave and Bob from Boston joined us looking for some Fort Lauderedale sailfish action. We popped the kites up and put the gogs out and got an insta bite on two big bomber bonita. We thought we were looking at the start of a great afternoon of fishing unfortunately those w...

Fishing with Danny, Mark and Eric for Sharks off Fort Lauderdale aboard Hooked Up February 17th, 2012 Today we had Danny from Omaha entertaining a couple of his friends Mark from Idaho and Eric from Freemont Vermont. We started out trolling the reef catching kingfish one after another. Once we had caught plenty of kings we brought in the trolling gear and set out our kites with one shark bait suspended from one of the kites and 2 live baits suspended from the other. It...

For the last four days the Spotted Sea Trout has been just outstanding!! Capt Ted and Donnie Benbow of Skins and Fins Charters has been catching big spawning fish up to 5 LBS. it's best to release these big females and keep the smaller males for dinner. Just a reminder, the Spring Tarpon season is just around the corner, now is the time to book you Florida keys, Islamorada dream trip! Please give us a call www.skinsandfinscharters.com 305-393-0363...

Greeting once again from the "Sportsfishing Capital of the World" Islamorada, Key Largo and the Florida Keys fishing. Well the waters out in the Gulf have cooled down a bit and the Spanish Mackerel run has really started to heat up, an average four hour Charter nets up to 30 of these great fighting fish about 24 to 36" in size. In Flamingo in the Everglades National Park the Redfish and Snook have been hanging around in the channels and run offs. These great fighting fish are...

Naples Fishing Report 2/21/12   After a busy month of charters I have a day to get reports done and get ready for another busy week. If you are not down in Naples right now or arent going fishing you are missing out on one of the best Winters I can remember. The weather has been amazing with highs in the low 80's and water temps have been in the 70-76 range. This warmer than average weather has kept the live pilchards in the area all Winter and has really helped the f...

I fished with Corey & Sonya Hart from Ont. today, Bass fishingm is getting better every day, the big fish were on fire today. Corey caught two big Bass and lost 2 more. February 20, 2012 I fished with long time client Roger Schroeder and his brother Ken today. We had a great day on the water. The bass are biting and it looks like the big fish are in play too. February 19, 2012 I fished with Beryl Anthony again today, last time Beryl came...

There were only three of us out today, and finding fish was difficult. We were all searching for bluefin and having no luck. I made an executive decision, after fishing a couple hours, to steam south and look around down there. A friend of mine had a few bluefin bites down there on Saturday, so I was hoping to find his scraps. We checked out several good spots, and burned a lot of fuel looking, but never found the gold mine. We did spend a few minutes jigging some amberjacks, and you c...

There was a tremendous area of bluefins today, but very few bites. I'm not sure but I think there were only three or four bluefins caught out of the Hatteras and Oregon Inlet fleets. It wasn't because there weren't any fish because there were fish busting and marks everywhere...they just wouldn't bite. We got lucky and caught a wahoo, so atleast my guys will eat good! There was a very scattered yellowfin, and we spent the afternoon with the smaller stuff out in hopes of...

The Fishing Report. Feb. 21, 2011. Permit and Tarpon are showing up on the flats here in Key West as water temps climb in the afternoons to nearly 80 degrees! February and March fishing in the Keys brings the some migrating Permit and Tarpon into the Lower Keys and Key West. Permit are readily available in between cold fronts when the waters warm up. On cooler days, we are catching Barracuda, Jacks, Mackerel, Pompano, Sea Trout, Sharks, Snapper, Cobia... Soon, there will be Bonefish on th...

FISH'N CONDITIONS UPDATED FEBRUARY 21, 2012 This is not a Trinity River steelhead. This is first time fly fisher Carly Amatisto and an Upper Owens Troutzilla that looks like a steelhead!...

Last Friday we fished with local buddy, Rick Pino, his father-in-law, Ed Jones—visiting from Virginia—and another great fisherman--snowbird, Ron Greisdale—whose home base is Great Britain. We didn't get anything spectacular, but we all kept busy with ladyfish, a few jacks and some sea trout. It was distressing to see that so much of the grassy areas are thinning out; they usually hold nice schools of trout and an occasional redfish. On President's Day we fished...

Report Date: February 21, 2012 “Spring into Homosassa Fishing” After the last few winters, we’ve experienced a rather mild winter this year here in Old Homosassa. Which has resulted in some exciting fishing reports for this early in the season. The Gulf water temperatures are around the 60 degree mark and the fish seem to know the arrival of spring is not far away. The Sheepshead have already spawned and are feeding like crazy. The Spanish Mackerel are early an...

After 2 straight days of 25-30MPH wind, SW FL waters must clear and settle before the bite return. As promised, my report today was suppose to bring you warm and fuzzy feelings wherever you get them but such is not the case. It sucked today. As soon as my boat entered Pine Island Sound my instincts told me to you CRAMPS/Diaharra/or Bee Sting. The water was that infamous color all Truthful Guides hate to see. Think about taking a glass of water and adding 3 Tablespoons of Tang (Not PoonT...

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Lake Fork  Bass moved deeper with the last two cold fronts and snow. Now catching them in 7 ft on white spinner baits and black trick worm rigged texas style. Water surf temp 50 degrees. For trip info see www.lakeforktrophybass.com  Booking 2012 spring trips now!!! Also follow me on Face Book http://www.facebook.com/pages/DSP-Guide-Service/140271526067779 903-765-3708  Home  940-902-3855  Cell...

Wounded Warriors trip We were fortunate enough this year to be asked to participate in the effort to give back to our soldiers who have been injured, and proudly said yes to the opportunity to take a few out for an outstanding day of fishing on the Emerald Spirit. Our day started like all the others; get down to the boat early and catch live bait, make sure all of the tackle was ready as well as the boat. The Crew is ready all the time, especially today because they know how important t...

Mid February and it feels like summer. yes we are still receiving fronts but, the cool weather does not linger for long. Many natives are wondering what is to come for summer, hot, hot, hot. Inshore has produced great snook action in palm beach and Jupiter. Targeting seawalls and docks snook are plentiful and low tide offers stellar sight fishing. Snook are ranging in size from 2 to 15 pounds, willing to take live baits, artificial and flies. Deeper holes snook can be found schooling up...

Report 2/16/2012 Photo, Capt. Charlie w/ the Paul Shinskey party. Caught 27 Trout & 3 Reds and lost more. Front hit at Daybreak, wind went North at 10 to 12 mph. Caught some quality fish early & then they did not feed again till 1pm. We came in at 3pm, weather man wrong again. I almost canceled this trip. Report 2/15/2012 Took Billy Rioux & his son from El Campo. The weather forecast called for 90% chance of rain & South west wind but we decided to check i...

It is February with a cold front pushing through Texas, Louisiana, Alambama, and approaching fast. Plentiful sunshine and warm air from the Gulf has gotten our water temperature on the rise again. The redfish are stacked up in some of the local community holes and scattered in small groups on the flats. The speckled trout continue to move in and out of the rivers as water temperatures change rapidly from day to day. Flounder have been caught in deep pockets of water as they are awakened by...

Had the pleasure of having Steve and Collin in from Boston for a couple days of Sightfishing for Redfish with Fly/Spin. Steve ended up landing 6 Fish on Fly and Collin using Spin landing 13 fish. Gulp shrimps and Exude darts rigged on flutter style hook seem to get plenty of action and for Flies EP crabs and Redfish Toad patterns work the best in dark colors. Capt Chris Wilson FinAddict Fly/Light Tackle Charters www.charlestonflyfishingguide.com captchriswilson@yahoo.com 843-224...

The Islamorada fishing was very good today south of the light for big Kingfish and Wahoo’s.We pulled the hooks on a nice Wahoo today and caught some nice Kingfish. There were a few 30lb fish caught today.There was also some nice 30 lb Cobias caught today in the sand on some rays.We had some great Yellowtail action on the Eagle, some of the fish were 4 to 5 lbs.The Sails were slow again, and with this warm winter that we have had we may start seeing some Dolphin (Mahi) showing up soon....

Charter fishing in Fort Lauderdale with the family and kids seems to be one of those things enjoyed. It’s not something you can do many places in the country so why not enjoy and give it a try? It could be you are traveling with the family from somewhere in the north like Tim and his 9 year old daughter Analyze, or perhaps your parents are visiting from Illinois as Jessica’s da Art did. Two separate groups of two, meeting on the boat for a fishing trip. And both groups said the...

February has arrived and our weather conditions continue to be spectacular. I've been extremely busy and have had the opportunity to take a lot of really extroardinary people fishing over the last couple of weeks. With water temperatures holding steady in the mid to upper 60's, fishing is hands down "wayyyy" above average for February. We have been catching numerous redfish and trout on all my trips and a few clients had the opportunity to set new personal bests in the red...