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Fishing Report:   Wow is it really February! The weather in Southwest Florida seems more like late March or April. I don't want to rub it in for you "snow birds" but the daytime temps have remained in the 70's and 80's and it looks like February is going to have more of the same. Boca Grande fishing charters have continued to produce some outstanding Redfish action and I'm starting to catch some really nice Snook. Punta Gorda fishing charters have been producing good numbers of fish as well. I have had multiple 50 plus fish days this January and I expect February to get even better, especially for Snook fishing.

I know I keep repeating myself but the 2012 Tarpon fishing season is only a few months away and for those of you who are looking to book a trip for the 2012 tarpon season I strongly urge that you start planning ASAP as my calendar is already close to half full. I don't want to sound like a broken record but I would hate to miss seeing some of my repeat clients this tarpon season.

Trout fishing has remained very good and getting a nice limit of trout has been pretty easy. I have been seeing a ton of big Trout on the flats and catching fish over 20 inches seems to be an everyday occurrence. With the bait starting to show up I expect to start catching a lot more really big Trout while Snook fishing. Last year we had some fish over 9lbs. From now thru April is hands down the best time to catch big trout here in Southwest Florida and I don’t mean 20” fish


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Fishing Report:   February is big Bass time here on Lake Fork. For all you fisherman that have been waiting for those big females to start moving to the shallows, now is the time. Lake Fork is about 6 feet low but still in great shape for another fantastic year of fishing in 2012. The fishing has been good for size the last few days. Numbers of quality Bass can be found starting to stage on the timbered secondary points and ditches, and creeks near spawning flats. Starting at the mouths of the creeks and working your way back is the best approach to locating pre spawn Bass this time of year. Dearing a cold front the Bass will be more active and concentrated on main lake and/or secondary points. On warmer days, you will find that the bite is better at the very back of the creeks. Once you locate a fish or two it is good to make another pass back through the area as there will usually be several more in that location and come back and hit it again later in the day. Fishing in depths of 4-10 feet has been good and will get better as the water temps rise.

The weather this time of year is always up and down, but don’t let the cold nasty weather keep you off the water. Because this is the time of year your chances of catching a bass over ten pounds will be the best. I have been guiding on this lake a long time, and Most of the bass I have caught over ten pounds were on nasty cold weather days. Expect the bite to be shallow and more consistent as the month rolls along. Suspending


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Fishing Report:   We have finished our winter fishing in south florida and are now in Isla Mujeris Mex.Sailfishing is in full swing with 30 bites or more per day common Trolling is the method with dredges and teasers.We often finish the day with some great snapper and grouper fishing,so we have something special for the table.We will be there thru early March and have a few openings left.


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Fishing Report:   Striper fishing is very good. Its February and the water temperature is in the low 50's. I have never seen the lake water this warm in February. I have also never seen this much bait. There is plenty of bait 30 to 50 feet down over the river and creek channels. The river channel from Gainesville Marina to the Hwy 60 bridge is a prime example of deep water bait. We are also seeing some bait starting to move into the back of the creeks over a 20 to 30 foot bottom. Ada and Gainesville Creek are good examples of what I will call shallow bait. This has been a very good week for free lines. Un weighted lines and lines with a single split shot fished 50 feet behind the boards and 100 feet behind the boat has out fished downrods. I have not had any luck graphing for groups of stripers. Instead I am pulling free lines and down rods where I find the highest concentrations of bait fish. Small baits continue to your best bet. If you can throw the net get some Threadfin Shad and use those. If not, take some medium shiners, very small trout and small herring. Try any creeks with a large concentration of bait. Focus on the creeks and river channel from Flat Creek north to Wahoo. Holly Park area, Ada and Gainesville creek are good starting places.


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Fishing Report:   Kona Hawaii fishing report – Jan. wrap-up .

Marlin over 1000 lbs., known as “granders” are regularly caught all over the world. Some are taken and some are released but here in Hawaii, we only count the ones that are actually weighted in. Some of the captains here have made the claim that they caught and released a grander and because of their experience, you can take their word for it that they did in fact release a grander but others who have made a claim to have released a grander are received with skepticism. Right before the close of 2011 the word went out that there was a possible grander coming to the scales for weigh in. I didn’t stick around for the weigh in but found out the next day that it only weighed in at 608 lbs. The crew on the boat is experienced so it didn’t make any sense why they thought it would make the grander mark but they only had egg on their faces for a little while because just 8 days later, they actually caught one and weighed in the first grander of 2012 at 1040 lbs. Hawaii’s first official “grander” was caught and weighted in 1954 and the count has continued at an average of slightly over 2 per year since. Hawaii Fishing News keeps the grander tally on their web site so now were up to 128 of them in hawaii.

The striped marlin bite isn’t very good at all as we approach the middle of their season (bummer) but the spearfish showed up right on time and have been a fairly common catch. I’ve said it here before and I’m


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Fishing Report:   Key west flats fishing report by A.W.S charters January
Another January has passed and I would like to thank all my new and repeat clients for a great month of flats fishing. Key west had a very warm month and many of my clients were able to hook up on tarpon. A big hats off to Tom Rosenmayer, Chris Beatty and Mark Thompson for landing silver kings. The permit fishing was steady all month around Key west, I guided many of my anglers to shot at tailing fish but only Tom Rosenmayer landed 1. Toms fish was a very large permit weighing in over 20 pounds. Bonefish were quite scarces this month with only long time client Matt Calcaterra having a shot. Barracuda fishing started slow this month but really starting heating up towards the end of the month. My best day out on the flats was with Tom and Larry, They landed 4 or 5 and had plenty more hits. I tried a new method of shark fishing this month, I had my clients cast a popper with a piece of cut bait trailing. This did not work well but the eats we did have were truly spectacular. Backcountry fishing was fantastic for many of my anglers with catches of jacks, pompano, bluefish, ladyfish, and look downs. My favorite trip is a yearly trip with Chris Beatty and his family, between the 3 of them they landed 5 truly huge jacks.All and all the flats fishing this month was very good and I expect the same for February so please check out www.keywestflatsfishin.com and book your day.

Capt Anthony Skinner


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Fishing Report:   Snook season is back in action February 1st and many anglers will be hard at work to bring home a snook for the dinner table. The beast action for snook has been near docks, seawalls and drop offs. Artificial lures and live baits all work for the snook but fly fishing is another great method to battle the linsider. Many of the snook are schooling up and offer double digit numbers of catches for anglers. Remember the slot size for the snook is 28 inches minimum and 32 maximum.

Trout still continue to produce stealer action, artificial baits like the bass assassin in green works great with a jig head. Live baiting for the trout is another option , chumming help to bring the fish off the bottom and produces more hook ups. Target grass flats, channels and deep hole for the best action. The average size of the trout has been 2 to 7 pounds.

The grass flats is full of live for anglers as well providing plenty of action for jacks, ladyfish, bluefish, drum, trout , snook and snapper. Artificial lures like a crank bait or jig worked near the bottom gets the drag screaming. Popping corks another great method for working the flats helps angler to see the strike and catch more fish .

Well that is the fishing report for the past week I hope you all enjoyed. Remember you cant catch them from the couch so get out there and get hooked up. Tight Lines! Capt. Craig Korczynski, PhlatsInshoreFishing.com, 561-644-4371





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Fishing Report:  
Monday, 1/16, after a weekend of rough offshore conditions, seas were calming down, with a forecast for two-to-three foot seas out to twenty miles. It was rougher than that, but it was calm enough for my hardy anglers, Bud Glanzer, Lee Larsen, and Alan and Wendell Bronson, all long-time customers. We headed out of new Pass to about twelve miles, where we fished with live shrimp. We caught twenty-two sheepshead, twelve of which were nice keepers to 20 inches. We also caught eight keeper lane snapper. We released about a dozen smaller lanes, along with fifteen mangrove snapper shorts, a flounder, some small gag grouper, grunts and crevalle jacks.

Jason Broctorss, his dad, Barry Broctorss, and friends, Chris Cooley and Brandon Rogers, wanted to do some sport fishing, as well as some fishing for table-fare. We headed out Tuesday morning and fished in various spots between twenty and thirty-five miles west of New Pass. First, we caught some blue runners to use for bait, and those worked to get the guys two good goliath fights with one 150-pound and one 175-pound goliath, both of which were gently released. Next, we targeted some eating fish with live shrimp. The guys caught two nice16-inch sheepshead, four nice mangrove snapper to 16 inches, fifteen nice whitebone porgies, all 14 inches and 15 inches, and a mess of big grunts to 14 inches. We released undersized triggerfish, a big blue angel fish, hogfish shorts, and five amberjack schoolies about 18 inches


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Fishing Report:   FLY HOOKER SPORTFISHING
Captain George Landrum
gmlandrum@hotmail.com
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Cabo Fish Report
January 23-29, 2012

WEATHER: Having just returned from visiting family in Oklahoma I thought I would be nice and warm when I got back here, but I found myself wearing a sweater all day yesterday even though everyone else was walking around in t-shirts. Guess it may take a while for me to thaw out! It was actually pretty nice this week with our daytime highs in the mid 80's and the lows in the mid 60's. I was told that it was cloudy and a bit breezy earlier in the week and that I brought the sun back with me when I returned Tuesday. Since then we have had mostly sunny skies with a bit of a breeze starting up in the middle of the morning.
WATER: I ran a loop on the water temperatures this week and it appears that the warm water we have been seeing just to the west of the San Jaime bank earlier in the week has slowly moved toward us, to the point that it is now on top of the San Jaime. This is 70 degree water, three degrees warmer that the expanse of ocean between the Banks and Cabo. Right along the beach on the Pacific side we are seeing much cooler water at 63 degrees, but this only extend off the beach about a mile. The water on the Pacific side has been a very nice blue while the water immediately off the Cape has been greenish and the water in the Sea of Cortez has


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Fishing Report:   Date: January 28th, 2012
Name: Lake Baccarac Lodge
Hottest Baits: senkos, 1 oz spinnerbaits, topwater yellow magic, Watermelon Lizards
Hottest Colors: watermelon red senko and swimbaits, ratl traps, power worms
Date Fished: January, 2012

Comments: 1/27/12 - Boats catching over 100 bass a day with fish up to 11 pounds yesterday...mostly watermelon lizards and 1 oz spinnerbaits.

1/25/12 - In the last seven days, we have had varied results on Lake Baccarac, with a couple of days the bite being very slow to nonexistent; a couple of days of big bass only, with Ron Albertson reporting catching four largemouth over 12 pounds. In the last couple of days, pretty consistent numbers of 3 to 7 lb. bass, with the best baits still being one oz. spinner baits with a white skirt, pearl swim baits, large Bill Dance fat free shad, watermelon red senkos, wacky style. We are seeing most of the big fish spawning right now with the water temperature over 70 degrees over most all of the lake.



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Fishing Report:   The Orlando Area Fishing Report from Spotted Tail 1.28.12

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-The Old Florida Outdoor Festival, February 10, 11, and 12th. I will be there in the Coastal Angler Magazine booth, Saturday from 10-2, Sunday from 12-2.
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Last Friday night my phone rang. Bob Colley wanted to go fishing on


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Fishing Report:   A cold front has come down early January which has given us a decent bite and is continuing to give us a good bite. This is what all South Florida fishermen wait for all year. The cold fronts are low pressures that in multiple ways (to only mention a few) cause bait and Sailfish to start heading South. The low pressure caused by the cold front is felt by all the fish, which changes migration patterns and feeding patterns, which is an indication of a storm/low pressure. Also with the winter months and cold air and water, Sailfish are a tropical warm water fish, so they start their Southern migration heading past Palm Beach, Boca, Fort Lauderdale, Ft. Lauderdale, Dania, Hollywood, Miami and all of the Keys. The early part of the season you will see more bites up North towards the Palm Beaches, and Fort Lauderdale, when mid January going into February the Miami and Fort Lauderdale bite as well as North Key West bite is good. Then when Feb/ March rolls around, the Southern Miami to Keys start to get a bite.

We fished Jim Scott from North Carolina last week, the fishing conditions were: winds out of the north, northeast at 12 to15 mph, seas running 3 to 5 ft. and deep blue water in on our 2nd reef which is what we like for the Sail and Mahi bite.

Jim and friends on board we set out to do some kite fishing with live bait Goggle Eyes. We set two kites up about 60 to 70 yards from the boat, fishing 4 live Goggle Eyes total, two Gogs per kite.

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