Low tide was a 3am this morning, winds out of the South at 5 mph when I first wet the line at 5:30am at Dania Beach. I'm always alone at dawn on Dania, nost of the other snook fisherman arrive after sunrise...missing the best part of the bite. I got two schoolie's this morning, one a bit over 22''-24'' and the other at 16'' or so, and a couple of small jacks fell to the white bucktail...it never fails, was home at 7am and went back to bed till 9, good start to the day.

Dania Beach - 10/09/08

Decided to make a few casts off the beach inbetween rain showers today...didn't look too good when i got there and with all the rain i didn't expect anything but some little jacks, which, didn't let me down. As i was going through my "ok, last cast" routine in m head i felt the familar thump of a snook got my attention. I lost him on his second jump, nothing huge but that made me keeping plugging on through the light rain and i was rewarded with a nice Dania schoolie, i packed it in after...i've learned to leave while i'm ahead and the lightning just offshore reminded me of that.

Dania Beach - 09/25/08

Hit the beach this morning and caught and released half a dozen under-slot snook, great fun on 10lb braid and my little fin-nor 1000.

First Slot of the Season - 09/17/08

Finally...getting harder to nail them in that slot every season, of course the day before the season opens i caught two around 30'' but of course the next day those fish disappear...too damn smart for my own good.

Dania Beach - 08/26/08

Hit Dania this morning and was had a great time messing with the schoolies...they were chewing up until 7am when the little jacks showed up, couldn't get a thing past them after that. Ended up with 9 snook to 25'', lost a few more, several jacks as well. Great no-seeum bite this morning too but the snook made it tolerable. Things can only heat up from here, i await the bait run and the maddness that will follow.

Islamorada bridge fishing 12-01-07

I'm one of those people who rides around with at least 2 fishing rods at all times; a plug pole and a heavier spinning outfit...and my shrimp shak (my woman tells me its a problem) just incase i get time during the day to wet the line. I was working all this weekend and did not think i'd have the chance but on saturday i finished work much earlier than expected and so me and my fiance headed on down to Islamorada and fished the first bridge, my first time fishing from a bridge in years and years. Using live shrimp we had pretty much non-stop action through-out the whole afternoon. Mostly undersized yellowtails, muttons, and the ever-present jack crevalle but we did manage a just-barely keeper mutton, a little flag, and the biggest lanes i've ever caught, averaging about 10-12 inches each. In Ft lauderdale i can't even catch the 8 inchers', had some key lime pie on the way home, gotta love the keys