MERRY CHRISTMAS

Merry Christmas to all of you and a very Happy New Year.  I hope to see all of you sometime this next year.  Mary and I will be gone from Jan 16 until Feb 6th on a cruise to spend some of our ill gotten gains from 2011. Thank You All; John & Mary

BAD BARRACUDA

Last fishing trip of the year.  Managed to get our limit of kings and several false albecore.  This big barracuda ate half of one nice fish on the way to the boat.  It wanted the front half also, so it followed all the way to the boat.  Thats when I got my revenge with the… Read More

YAHOO IT IS A WAHOO

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Went out to the gulf stream on a friends boat yesterday and caught 3 very nice wahoo.  The largest was over 50lb, so now our freezer is restocked with super tasting wahoo.

WAHOO ARE BACK

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The wahoo are back at the edge of the gulf stream.  They like 72 to 78 degree water best and several boats have had good luck recently.  Also, the speckled trout are coming back inside and they are catching them in our marina, as well.

COBO,CABO,CABO

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Went to Cabo San Lucas with two friends for 4 days of off shore fishing.  We had a great time.  Caught 7 of these striped marlin, 1 large sailfish and all the mahi mahi that we wanted.

Southern Migration

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It must be getting colder up there as you yankees are starting back south in your boats.  This is a picture fron my back porch.  Traffic on the Inter Coastal Waterway headed south has definately picked up.

Big King

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Took two visiters fishingyesterday.  Got caught in the rain and well soaked, but did manage a few fish and this 20 lb king.

Great Blue Heron

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Came home from fishing trip yesterday and found this big bird sitting on my roof.  And no; fishing was not great;  two dolphin fish and one baraccuda.

Irene Came & Went

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Look at these photos of Irene before she arrived, while she was here and just after she left.

Hurricane Irene

Irene has just passed by on it’s way north.  I drove around St James and found no serious problems,  I did not see any damage to houses at all.  One tree down and two missing mailboxes.  Lots of standing water, but that will be gone by this evening. Life will be back to normal by… Read More