I love catching billfish off of my flat's skiff !!!

(January 2001)

Kingfish a mile off Marco Island in January !

"Laid Up" Tarpon in 12 inches of water. We hooked this tarpon deep in the 10,000 Islands.

At 10-pounds, this is a very nice snook for Feburary. Luke Hellerman caught this fish with a live sardine.

Fishing partner Fred Lieb and his 50-pound sailfish!

Sharks provided plenty of action during the windy conditions last March.

Customer Tim Houk "hooked up" .

Now that's a nice trout at over 5-pounds!

(March 2001)

This 100-pound tarpon was killed by a 13ft hammerhead shark about 30 minutes into the fight. Notice the blood on the front deck of my boat.(April 2001)

Dick yeaton caught this 41" 27-pound snook on 10 pound test. (May 2001)

Quess what he caught 10 minutes later?

An 18 pounder!

Goliath and gag grouper provide surprises in the 10,000 Islands.(April 2001)

Each of the 100+ pound tarpon were caught in the Marco Island/10,000 Islands. (April 2001)

Not every tarpon in the Everglades is 100 pounds. These are around 20-30lbs.(April 2001)

Check out these new thumbnails. The tarpon in the 3rd photo is over 6 feet long and 100-pounds. The shark that is about to eat him is probably 12-14 feet long and around 500-pounds! (April & May 2001)

This rare "fat snook" species is only a few pounds from a state record! (July 2001)

I caught this 17-pound snook on a DOA shrimp lure in the St. Lucie River. (July 2001)

This 100-pound blackwater tarpon goes airborne in Charlotte Harbor. (August 2001)

Customers Art Ingalls and Dave Hickman landed these blackwater tarpon in Punta Gorda using live pinfish. We jumped seven that morning. (August 2001)

Customer Scott Herrington and I got into these false albacore tuna off the beach on Marco Island. Notice the fish striking behind me in the left photo.(October 2001)

Great weather in December produced probably the best fishing of the year. Tarpon, snook, redfish, jack, and trout were biting like crazy!

Snook on the flats!                           Tarpon near the flats!

Customer Mike Muscatello and his 20-pound snook!

A nice tarpon goes airborne as the sun sets on a December afternoon.

This is Mike's second 20-pounds snook of the day!

Redfish were mixed in with the snook!

But, as good as the snook and redfish were the tarpon were the "show stoppers" of the month with catches of at least three nice tarpon on every trip before Christmas.  This 70 pounder was Lynn Ono's first tarpon ever!

Get on the bragging board for next Year!