Great Fishing Mid December

Here are a mix of pictures from the last 2 weeks. 

One of the highlights was having Rex Roberts and his flyfishing guide Torin spend the day with me in the backcountry. It was a slick calm day and we targetted Spanish Mackerel. Using Fox sport fishing 9 weight flyrods the duo caught over 25 mackerel, seatrout and mangrove snapper on the flyrod. After lunch the tide switched and we chummed up a herd of Spinner Sharks. Feeding them small chunks of the  mackerel we brought the sharks within 10 feet of my boat. Then we casted  a white fly back and watched the takes. These spinner sharks were very exciting to catch. They jump and spin. One actually cleared the air 7 times. Fox 12 weight Trek flyrods did a great job of tackling these tackle busters.

On a couple other days we carried my canoe deep into the Everglades creeks and paddle a few miles before fishing. Snook, Tarpon and Redfish and Crevalle Jacks were all fun fishing out of a 15' canoe.

Offshore there has been a good bite of Sailfish  and Wahoo. The charterboat Relentless won the 3 day long Islamorada Sailfish tournament with 17 releases. The charterboat Buzz On had a 50 and an incredible 80 pound pair of Wahoo's yesterday. We all do our charterfishing out of world famous BudnMary's Marina here in Islamorada. Go to www.foxsportfishing.com and order some Trek Travel rods and Diablo spinning reels and come on over.

Captain Skip Nielsen

Scott Barkow on a cool day with a Black Drum

Adam Eismont Mangrove Snapper fishing

Adam Eismont used the Bonefish Trek Diablo 350 combo
on this keeper Red Grouper

Cyd goes 1 on 1 with the Bonefish Trek 4 piece travel rod

Cyd's reward was this Gag Grouper

Dr.Frank Eismont with a nice keeper Gag Grouper
on the Bonefish Trek Diablo 350 combo

family fun for Adam,Frank and Austin Eismont

lots of Spanish Mackerel on fly tackle for
Rex Roberts and his son in law Torin

My good friend Rick Peper released 12 Snook
and a Tarpon using Diablo 350 spinning tackle

on my days off I've been exploring the Everglades in my canoe

Rage Ultralight rod and Diablo spinning reel
caught this fine Snook on a canoe day

Rex battles a Spinner Shark on Fox fly tackle.

Rex had a blast using Foxsportfishing Trek 9
weight flyrods to catch Seatrout

Rex with a Ladyfish on fly. aka Poor Man's Tarpon

Backcountry Fishing

Backcountry Fishing really came alive this past week with cooling water temps.

Dr. Hugh Dennis used Fox Rage Ultra-light rods and Fox Sport Fishing Diablo spinning reels to release over 40 Snook. We even caught a few on a Fox 9 weight fly rod!
David Kubert and family fished on another day and at the start the water temp was in the low 60's, By afternoon it had warmed up to 66 degrees. After a couple dry spots we found the mother load. With 4 anglers it was wild. Snook , Redfish, Seatrout and Sheepshead were all huddled up together and made for an incredible 2 hours of fishing.

My anglers used Fox Sport Fishing Diablo 350 spinning reels and Bonefish Trek 4 piece rods and Rage light tackle rods.

Here are some pictures of the fun they all had.

Captain Skip Nielsen

Dr.Hugh Dennis released over 40 Snook

Fox Rage light rods and Fox Diablo spinning reels

Hugh Dennis used Fox Sport Fishing Rage light tackle on this Snook

its great fishing when the Snook are biting the Fly

the Kubert family released 30 Snook and 20 Redfish
using Fox Sport Fishing Tackle

Joe and John Kubert

lots of Sheepshead were in the mix

Patriarch DK released some big Snook

the bite was ON!!