I’m heading to the Everglades tomorrow for the six …fishing with Capt. Joe Rodriguez. Report to follow of course. ncl/tac

I spoke with a few other people who were on teh water yesterday; one boat caught a permit, another had a few more shots than we did but everyone agreed it was far from stellar. In case anyone forgot what they look like, Lenny Leonard sent me this photo: I may be fishing tomorrow morning;…

Today I fished for about 6 hours with Capt. Ray Vasquez. We had great visibility, and the tides looked good. We had a new fly that John O’Hearn had given me that I was eager to try and it was blowing 15–all perfect indicators of good permit fishing. We started west of Key West and…

There has been a lot of discussion lately about widening the Key West Channel in order to accommodate bigger cruise ships. Beyond a personal feeling that I would rather have fish than large vessels and the attendant passengers they transport in our channel, I agree with the majority of residents here: we have enough cruise…

The fishing has been put on hold for the last few days, and the wind has taken over. Looking forward to blackfin soon, as well as sailfish and a planned trip 70 miles west of Key West for african pompano on fly. This weather should be over soon, and the permit are the likely headline…

The 6 lb record didn’t happen. Here’s an account (with pictures) of what did: We met Andy at the ramp in Islamorada at 6:30 and were on our way to the Everglades by 6:45. The weather was beautiful and the water was glass calm. A quick run and we were fishing. We didn’t see what…

We arrived at our next stop and didn’t find the fish immediately. Andy pulled out his binoculars, and in short order spotted a few groups of happy rollers in the distance, so we fired up the motor and headed over that way to capture them. Incidentally, I noticed something about binoculars–I feel like they add…

Here are more pictures of the many fish we jumped, trying to find one that was big enough: After a few hours and many class tippets, we made a move to another area and tried to find some more sliders. On to Part 4…

So we left the great masses of rollers and looked for some shallow sliders. We found a fish relatively quickly, and it looked big enough. One cast and an eat, one jump, and I reeled in the slack to see a class tippet that was chewed through. My guess is that the fish was hooked…

My phone started making lots of noise this afternoon. It seems that this morning angler Thane Morgan and Captain Dustin Huff caught a very large tarpon on 4 lb. What I hear is this: they hooked the fish at 4 pm yesterday and boated it at 10 this morning–not that anyone reading this needs the…