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Salty Shores big black drum on fly

admin — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 17:12:45 +0000

Over the holidays I had photograppher from Salty Shores back to shoot video and pics…although we had rough weather we still caught some good fish including this big black drum on fly.

East Cape crew in Louisiana

admin — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 15:09:41 +0000

Got Marc and Graham in Louisiana for four days. First day was pretty good fishing even thought the fog was thick. We landed four redfish over 20 pounds and had a number of other good shots on fly. Got rained out today but we are back at it tomorrow.

Big redfish in my new ECC Vantage

admin — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 15:05:51 +0000

Today I got redemption. We landed an 18 & 25 pound redfish along with a few other smaller ones. We got a few more shots at some huge redfish along with some shots at black drum. The Fog was insane today. We couldn’t see 20yrds in front of the boat all day, thank god for the GPS. Fly casting in uptown new orleans on Claiborne ave. EPIC!

I got my New ECC Vantage

admin — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 15:02:52 +0000

Rain please go away! Got me couped up at the house wishing I was breaking my new boat in…

East Cape Vantage

admin — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 02:35:08 +0000

Weather has been terrible the past two days so I caught up on some errands. I sold my East Cape Caimen on Sunday to a guy from Illinois who has two homes in Florida. One in Boca Grande and one in Naples. He is coming into Orlando in the beginning of November to pick it up from East Cape so I decided to drive it back to the shop so they could get it ready for him. I left at 5:30 tuesday morning and drove through down pooring rain from New Orleans, all the way to Tallahassee driving 35 mph down I-10. That turned the drive into a 12 hour trip instead of a 9 hour trip. I dropped the boat off around 6 pm and caught up with one of the owners Marc Page who I am great friends with and went home to get some food and catch up on some sleep. I met Kevin Fenn, the other owner of East Cape at Lake Conway to test drive the new East Cape Vantage which is what I now have on order and hope to get it by the end of November. It was sad to see my Caimen go because it was such a good boat, but I am extremely excited to get the new Vantage. Big Redfish and Tarpon beware. This boat is bad ass! I got an Inshore Power Boat 16 ft. skiff as a loaner till my Vantage is done. IPB is a custom skiff manufacturer that East Cape bought into and they are co-owners with Brad Ball. They build a killer little skiff at an awesome price and I am excited to try it out. I left Orlando around 9 am to head back to New Orleans and the drive home was much better. Took 9 hours and the weather was great. catching up with emails and looking forward to getting back on the water friday. Tight Lines!