Early December In Islamorada

Its the beginning of December and even though the wind has been blowing the temperatures are perfect. In the 70's and low 80's. Cliff and Cathy Fox and best friend Freddy DuPreez are fishing in Islamorada this week. We fished 3 days and went different places each day. It is one of the wonderful aspects of fishing the Islamorada area. It is a vast area. One day you can fish offshore for Sailfish and the next be across Florida Bay fishing in Everglades National Park.

On our first day we targeted Spanish Mackerel, Cliff had asked me what was "running", the Mac bite was on fire. We started chumming and chunking and within an hour I could hardly keep up. Triple headers of 3 to 5 lb Macks on the Bonefish Trek rod fitted with Diablo 350 spinning reels to start. Then we went even lighter with the Fox Rage Ultralight rods, so much action.

Cathy and Cliff used Bonefish Trek rods and
Diablo 350 reels to catch loads of Seatrout

catching Redfish near Sandy Key

Freddy DuPreez gets in on the Mac action

On our 2nd day of fishing we travelled to the Sandy Key area and fished small run-offs as the tide got low. Seatrout and Redfish were caught and released. All good fun.

Cathy Fox with a nice Spanish Mac

Cathy, Cliff and Freddy fighting triple
header of Spanish Mackerel

On our 3rd day the wind was really up so we took a long trip around the "Corner" and headed to Cape Sable and the creeks beyond. On his first cast of the morning Cliff scored a big Snook on a Bonefish Trek rod. After that is was game on. The Seatrout bite and Snook bite was non-stop for an hour before we moved to the next river mouth. There we caught a lot of everything including Cobia, Goliath Grouper, Snook, Redfish, Seatrout, Ladyfish and way too many Crevalle Jacks. To finish the day we caught some more Reds in another small creek a third on the way back home.

Cathy released this baby Goliath that
someday could weight 300lbs

Cliff caught this Snook on a Bonefish Trek Diablo 350
combo on his first cast of the day

Cliff with a nice Redfish. note
Diablo spinning reels and Rage Ultrllight rods

Cliff with a very nice Red he caught on the
Bonefish Trek Diablo 350 combo

Freddy DuPreez caught his first ever Snook on
the Bonefish Trek Diablo 350 combo

The Bonefish Trek Travel rod used with a Diablo 350 spin reel is an outfit that can be taken anywhere you want to go and you can be sure it will perform flawlessly.

I am travelling to the Yucatan soon and will be taking an arsenal of Fox Trek rods and reels with me. Well today we are going after Spanish Macs and then hopefully fishing them under a Kite to catch Blacktip Sharks Off to the fishing grounds at 5am.

Captain Skip Nielsen