The Fall Special is here. One to two anglers save $50 for any trip booked this month. All you need to do is mention this blog and I will take $5o off you next trip for parties of 2 or less. By the way the fishing is great if you like big reds, snook, or Cobia.

Thanks,

Captain Eric

Grouper have shown up close to shore and inshore which makes it great for Grouper sandwiches. I have also been locating big schools of reds. Flounder are around as well as snook and snapper are always cooler bound.

Thanks again to the Mazza family. They came all the way from Italy to fish with me again. We had a blast and I was even invited to have a real Italian dinner with them. I loved the food and the company. Thanks again I hope to see you in December. Oh I almost left out that my girl friend loved the tiramisu.

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These two young ladies took care of business. I had as much fun watching them as they probably had. Madeline and Taylor were treat to fish with.

I was in the Keys earlier this month and these dolphin were entertaining themselves on our bow.

This Young Lady caught this part of her slam just before the storm came. Madeline and Taylor both helped each other catch this tarpon.

This is this first Hammer head shark I have encountered. The DeGroot Family had a great day catching Lemon shark, Black tips and this Hammer head. What a thrill! The Hammer head later bit my boat and left his "finger print" .

Caught, landed and released

This is a video shot by Steve from PA. After catching at least 8 King fish and 6 cobia he decided to let me try fighting one of the cobia. We used my underwater camera to catch some cool video of this fish that I had to land with out the gaff because I was going to release her. She was 63 inches long and very heavy. My guess is between 80 and 100 pounds.

Sarasota charter fishing

Fishing has been great lately but yesterday was epic. I had one lucky client who caught big Kings, giant cobia and one 150 pounder Goliath Grouper. Steve was on fire catching 6 cobia, a few small grouper, along with about 10 king fish. He was so tired after the 6th cobia he told me to take over on the monster, after a 20 to 30 minute battle I landed the 63 inch monster that I could not gaff because I had to let her go. I wrestled her in for a couple of quick photos and sent her back. Today we went out and got a 40 pounder. Nothing like yesterday but always good to fill the cooler with one fish.

Thanks for the great time - Thomas will have lasting memories of landing the Cobia. You are welcome to download any pictures.
Cheers!
- Rick
　

HI-- I just wanted to thank you for a great day on the water on 3/31/10. My son, Anders (8) and I had a great time. Thanks for bringing out your old bass rod for him to use. We enjoyed the Snapper action, the close calls with the Snook and the many Trout, the jumping Ladyfish, Pinfish and even a catfish. Anders caught the most numbers, the most species and the biggest fish. You did a great job of helping both of us and I hope to be back for the third year in a row next year. Anders had some great stories for his grandpas and his third grade buddies.

Thanks, Craig and Anders (8) Johnson
Northfield, MN

I hope you enjoy the pics and feel free to post this.

These are the big catches latley fishing here in Sarasota. See which one you think is my Uncle Mike.

Sarasota charter fishing at it's finest. A couple of nice days mixed in but the weather has been cold down here in the sunshine state. The fish fortunately have not been affected and this has been my most productive winter ever. Big Sea Trout, Reds, Black Drum, Sheeps head and other species have made there way to fillet table lately. Although I am looking forward to some warmer days ahead.

In shore grouper have been showing up. We have one more month to keep them until the ban takes effect Feb. 1 . Boo to that.

The last week has been bitter cold but the die hards are still out fishing. These reds are still biting even when the water temps fall into the low 60's. We also caught 3 snook in that same water temperature. Fish have to eat and I love to feed them.