Thursday, 5 January 2012

Christmas Week

T'was a busy time here in Islamorada. Lots of families down for the holidays. We enjoyed beautiful warm sunny weather and good fishing.

One of the days I had Luke and Tom Arnold out for a day of flyfishing. We poled the flats for Redfish but they were hard to see and feed a fly to even though we had some good shots. But later in the day we had plenty of action fishing edges of channels for Seatrout on an incoming tide which ate flies greedily. We then anchored up and chummed up a school of Spanish Mackerel and 15 of them fell to the flyrod anglers.. We used Fox Cellmax flyreels and Fox 5 piece 9 weight flyrods for this action.

Luke displays a Spotted Seatrout

Luke used Fox Cellmax flyreel and
9 weight flyrod on Ladyfish

On another day I had Ben Friedman and John McWard out for a day of Sharkfishing. John caught a large Lemon Shark and Ben caught about the biggest Nurse Shark I have seen. Later in the day we hammered the Blacktip Sharks.  EOS reels and XT Boatrods were used for the big ones and Ben really liked using the Sailfish Trek/Diablo 750 combo.

Ben Friedman used the Fox Trek Sailfish fitted
with a Diablo 750 to catch some big Sharks

John McWard caught this colorful Gag Grouper
using a Fox Bonefish Trek rod and
Diablo 350 spinning reel

Ben Friedman and John McWard used Fox XT  Boatrods and
Sailfish Trek rods fitted with EOS  and Diablo reels

Lemon Shark

you have to be careful around Blacktip Sharks
Mike and Sarah Shaffner spent a day fishing with me on the oceanside patch reefs. A pair of fat Red Grouper were caught on the Bonefish Trek rods fitted with Diablo 350 spinning reels. Many Red Grouper were released. Also caught were Hogfish, a culinary delight, along with Mangrove Snapper and plenty of Key West Porkchops, aka grunts.

Sarah and Mike used Bonefish Trek rods and
Diablo 350 reels to catch Red Groupers

Mike and the Bonefish Trek - Diablo 350
combo with a male Hogfish

I can't say enought about my Fox sport fishing rods and reels. I put them through rigorous tests each and every fishing trip and they keep performing flawlessly.

Captain Skip Nielsen

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