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Sat. April 5th, 2008 "Red" hot fishing in Tarpon Springs and Clearwater!
It's been a long week and I was booked for almost all of it so you'll have to forgive me for not being able to remember everyone's names. But early in the week Jeff and his son redeemed a gift certificate for a fishing charter and it was fun to watch his son catch his first redfish. I think we got another young one hooked on fishing. The best bite this day was early and it was fast and furious as our first several baits were consumed by hungry redfish. Things slowed down a little but we managed a few bites throughout the rest of the day.
Then Steven peacock and some of his buddies from work decided to have a "corporate meeting" on the water. It was a good decision as much was accomplished. The group managed to fill the cooler with large sea trout and their limit of redfish. They even landed their limit of redfish several times over and released 1 cobia and snook. That's what I call a business meeting worth attending.
On Thursday, I was part of a group charter set up by my good friend Capt. Greg DeVault. I had the opportunity to fish with Tony, Mike, and Vinny. We slaughtered redfish that day and lost two MONSTER snook to the mangroves. We made a good decision not to leave a spot too early. We almost left before the bite started but decided to stay 5 more minutes. That made all the difference as once the bite started it was redfish after redfish for 2 hours. There were lots of smile on the boat that day and lots of drag screaming action. Some times it pays of big time to be patient with a productive spot.
Then yesterday was the one exception to the week. It was slow. But we fished an area I hadn't been to in a few weeks so I knew it was going to be tough because we'd have to search for fish. Chuck and I go way back. When I first finished playing baseball with the Yankees Chuck hired me to coach private baseball lessons for his son's baseball team. He's really gotten into fishing and he found out I was a full time fishing guide through another guide and gave me a call. I showed him several spots in St. Pete but the high winds and my lack of fishing time down there lately had me a little off my game. We still caught fish but just not the numbers I would have liked.
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Apart
from the few "good" days we've had lately, the rest of them have
been "great" We've had 20+ redfish days with 20+ trout days and a
few snook and cobia brought to the boat over the past week. Fishing
Charters in Tarpon Springs and Clearwater have been blessed this
past week with great weather and even better fish catching. 
All
in all it was an awesome week. The fishing continues to get better
and better and the weather continues to get better as well.
Yesterday when I was near the Sunshine Skyway I could swear I
smelled tarpon in the air. I know there are a few around and that
they will be here in full force soon. I can't wait. I'll be chasing
down 150lb fish before I know it. Hopefully you'll be on the front
of the boat, holding onto the rod for dear life as the "silver king"
tries to drag us to Mexico. :)
