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Hello fans and fishermen. It’s been about 6 months since my last update. They say you can’t change the past or predict the future, but I’d like to reflect and speculate a bit on both. First, the reflection. Last year I welcomed Capt. Eddie to the AFG crew. His steady flow of fishing knowledge andRead more

Fall is a funny time for a fishing guide in the Keys. The breakneck pace ebbs a bit, and I have time to get friendly again with all the land-loving facets of my life. Dock duties are essential, for re-rigging and repairs. But a day on the water with clients is a dollar in myRead more

Dave from Colorado came into town for a few days recently to get in some much need bow time.  He brought a quiver of fly rods and reels and had tied up some very tasty looking flies. Dave actually spends most of his time tying flies. As a matter of fact, that’s what he does–heRead more

Mutton snapper caught while permit fishing On a recent half day trip the weather was pretty ideal for the most part.  We had some decent sunshine, light and variable winds and good tides.  After finding some nice bonefish but failing to get them hooked up, I decided the tide was right for looking for someRead more

Teaming up again, Sam Kaufman and I are riding out the unofficial “end” of tarpon season by fishing this year’s Gold Cup Tarpon Tournament. (April through June are thought of as the prime tarpon months. But heart-pumping silver king action can be found well into the fall, so don’t scratch them off your to-do list this summer!)Read more

Fly fishing in the Florida Keys brings many rewards: challenging fish fights, views that leave you speechless, and now and then you have to make room on the wall for another award. We were lucky to experience all that and more last week while competing in the Don Hawley tarpon tournament. We caught at least one tarponRead more

Working both shorelines and open water, we logged another tarpon on the score board yesterday, the 4th day in the week-long annual Don Hawley tournament. Weather has been steadily improving since Monday, though the numbers of fish caught haven’t gone up dramatically. We’ve caught a total of 7 – at least a tarpon a day – andRead more

Fly fishing for Florida Keys tarpon continued to be fruitful on Tuesday, the 2nd day of the annual Don Hawley tournament. My angler Sam Kaufman went 4 for 7 on tarpon hook ups, bringing our 2-day total to 5 tarpon caught and released. Sam got to enjoy a little sun on his shoulders, as he stripedRead more

Fly fishing in the Florida Keys isn’t all sunny and smooth, but the rewards are big all the same. Amid less than ideal conditions yesterday – cloudy, windy, rainy – a good number of tarpon were caught by contenders on the first day of this week’s annual Don Hawley Tarpon Fly tournament. Three teams each caughtRead more

It’s the first day of the annual Don Hawley Tarpon Fly tournament.  Organized in 1975, it was the first tournament to stop the killing of tarpon. With a sunrise like this to start out, it feels like a winning day already. It’s a five-day fight, so all this week there are lots of boats out thereRead more