With no end of great weather in sight and water temperatures in the mid 70’s (f), I headed to the Marquesas todayt with John Ain and Captain Mike Morgan. We began fishing to a fair number of floating permit, suspended in the glare with only the tips of their fins showing. For some reason I…

The water has been warming for the last week and a half, and we are still waiting for the next few degrees to push things over the top. Not that the fishing isn’t amazing, it’s just that we’re missing the few degrees needed to transcend the ordinary and make the fishing extra(forgive me)ordinary. What’s prevented…

so last night wasn’t the amazing tarpon bonanza I’d anticipated, though we did see a few fish. Alex Powers had a tarpon blow up on a surface fly while swinging it in the current in a Gulf-side channel mouth and that was the extent of our ohysical interaction with the poon. That said, the conditions…

Yes, it’s true. Fly anglers in the lower Keys are casting to, hooking, and reeling in tarpon. While this is not intended to draw attention away from the permit and bonefish fishing that is also here and amazing, it’s just nice that we are catching tarpon in February. Welcome back while the weather lasts, buddies!…

So this picture was on the back of a fly box, brought in for us to rig by a client. If only life were so simple…. Conditions on the flats are getting better every day, and there are plenty of tarpon, permit and bonefish swimming around. Reports are filtering in of all of the above…

The water continues to warm, and the fishing is approaching incredible. While today is good, tomorrow and the next five to seven days are looking towards transcendental. On tuesday I’ll have a report from a day of fishing with John Ain, which will most likely include some permit interaction. I have a picture to share…

The water temperatures rose a few degrees today, and the air temperatures are supposed to be in the high 70’s with an light east wind for the next week or so. As you by now probably know, this bodes extremely well for tarpon, permit, and bonefish capture on the fly pole. Reports today are of…

Water temperatures are in the low ’60s (f) in the Lakes Passage–it seems as though we lost at least a few critical degrees in the preceding few days. This means that life might be difficult to find, but if the water temperatures are in the low ’60s in the Lakes then they should be about…

So we are having some great weather in the Keys! We haven’t yet got back to the pre-cuda bowl weekend water temps, but the permit are on the flats en masse and giving anglers plenty of shots. Early morning is giving people shots at tarpon, and bonefish are being caught on the reg. (eastbound and…

First, a weather update: today the temperatures are in the mid 60’s, and tomorrow is supposed to clear up and be about 10 degrees (f) warmer. The best days for the coming week are looking like Wednesday through Friday, when the water will have had a chance to warm up again and the sun is…