January and February has brought some strong winter cold fronts causing the water temps to dive into the 50's. But we have also had some calm sunny days which makes it possible to make it out to the Gulf of Mexico to get in on some of the great winter time action that area offers. I spent several days fishing the Gulf waters with Steve Hudacek and we did well on the Spanish Mackerel from 4 to 6 lbs, lots of jacks and blue runners, a few nice Cobia up to 16lbs ,and some nice Tripletail that we caught of the trapline floats, I have a few pics of Steve (below) with some of his fish.
I had some of my Redbone Tournament anglers Brian and Joanna on the boat last week and we took a trip into the Gulf and found lots of Spanish Macks, blue runners, and also boated a nice Tripletail. Here is pic below of Brian and Joanna with a few Spanish Mackerel.
The fishing in the backcountry and the Flamingo area has been a little tougher due to the number of cold fronts and the extremely low tides we have had this year. There have been some good size snook and reds in the deeper channels and in the island moats but anglers have been working a little harder to find them.
The good fishing in the Gulf should continue until the middle or end of March and as our weather begins to settle into spring like conditions the Tarpon will begin to show and most guides will be focusing on Tarpon through late June. I will be offering 4 hour evening Tarpon trips starting in April. So if your thinking about Tarpon now is the time to book your April/May/June dates as everyone gets very busy that time of year. So give me a call 305-393-2495
Tightlines everyone , Capt. Paul Hunt
