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Shallow Water Angler TV in Louisiana

admin — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 17:35:14 +0000

Louisiana Fishing is starting to go off even though we are getting our coldest weather of the year. I’m shooting a few segments for Shallow Water Angler TV the next three days. Looks like the weather is gonna be good, we hope to get some great footage of this incredible fishery. I still have some dates open if you would like to get on some nice redfish, trout and black drum.

-Captain Greg Dini

Louisiana fishing

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.

Salty Shores Fly fishing in Louisiana

admin — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 13:43:34 +0000

I have Sam Root from Saltyshores.com in Louisiana with me. We have been searching for large redfish on fly but the weather is not cooperating. Sam has taken some good pictures but we are hoping to have a break in the weather and catch some big reds on fly. I will keep you posted.

Picture of my new East Cape Vanatage

Big Louisiana redfish on fly

admin — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 01:29:33 +0000

Had a guides day off and went out on the water with good friend Capt. Gregg Arnold. Weather was perfect, tons of sun and clean water. We landed the first monster redfish of the day within 5 minutes of shutting the boat down. We spotted the fish in about a foot and a half of water. I made about a 50 ft. cast with my Sage Z-Axis 10 wt, the fly landed 3 ft. to the left of the fish and he came over and gobbled it up. Got him to the boat and he weighed in at 30 lbs. Greg was up next and got a few shots at som 15 pound fish that he hooked and they got off. We polled up into a little gut off of a big bay and I spotted a nice fish tailing up on the shoreline. Gregg made a perfect cast, one strip and he was on. Landed him and he was a rspectable 25 pounder. We messed around a little while longer and caught another 22 lb. fish and I got a 20 pounder. We ended the day with Gregg landing a 26 pound Black Drum on fly. A great day on the water and fun pulling on some monster Louisiana redfish. Tight lines!

Fat redfish on Fly!

Gregg Arnold with nice Black on Fly.

RedBone Tournament in Louisiana

admin — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 04:15:29 +0000

Recently I guided two great anglers from Pennsylvania Jim and Wanda in the RedBone for Cystic Fibrosis tournament on October 14th & 15th. We had sub par weather but tons of fish around. The tournament was held out of Woodland Plantation which is a great bed and breakfast to stay at while down in Louisiana fishing. We crossed the Mississippi River every morning on the ferry to fish the east side of the river out of Delacroix, LA. We had clean water and tons of shots. This was the first RedBone tournament held in Louisiana since hurricane Katrina. The event was a feeler to see how things would go for the next event they will hold here in April for Jazz Fest. With that being said it was a little unorganized with only a handful of the fishing categories that they normally have. We ended up placing runner up in the over all team event, we would have placed 1st in the fly fishing division except they didn’t have one for this particular event, and we won the big fish category with Wanda catching a 33 1/2″ redfish that weighed 17 pounds. This was a great tournament for a great cause. I look forward to fishing in the RedBone in April. Tight Lines! Fishing is great.

RedBone Tournament Louisiana

Another good redfish in the RedBone Tournament.

Louisiana Marsh fishing on fly

admin — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 02:25:36 +0000

Incredible Louisiana Marsh Redfishing, another great day on the water with Clayton and Mack. We went out with high expectations from the day before and with the beautiful weather that was called for; winds 5-10 and tons of sun. We stayed on the inside today to fish for the fat pond redfish. We pulled up to the first marsh point and we were greeted with a school of 25 red fish sitting in a cut and ready to eat or flies. Mack was first up and landed a nice 9 pound red drum and while he was hooked up other reds were following his fish. I yelled to Clayton to get his rod out and when he stripped enough line off the real he threw his crab fly in and was hooked up with one of the three double headers we had today. The redfish were happy and ready to feed, many of the fish we had to dig the fly out of their crushers. The redfish averaged 7-9 pounds and for those of you who don’t know about Louisiana redfishing, these 9 pound fish were only 26″, super fat. The big fish of the day was a nice 12 lb slob and we ended the day one upping our previous day, 28 redfish on fly, all sight fishing. Another epic day of redfishing in the Louisiana marsh. Tight Lines!

Pair of redfish on fly

Redfish on crab fly.

Fly Water Expedition Journal

admin — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 19:36:56 +0000

Welcome to Fly Water Expedition’s Journal. On these pages we will share our fishing Expeditions.

Previous to getting our online reports going we had some great redfish charters!

Sept. 30th we landed 10 on fly with Dave Smith from Ohio. Had a blast on the water. Redfish were following stingrays in gin clear water. Easy prey everytime we got shots at them in that situation.

Nice redfish on fly

Guided redfish

Sept 27th we put a dozen fat reds in the boat on fly even with overcast conditions and dodging rain storms all day. I Had a great day on the water with Todd and Mike from Alabama.

Check out this big jack!

And another big one

Big red being released.

another redfish release.

Had a blast today with William from Destin, Florida. Great weather, lots of fish in gin clear water. We landed 13 redfish on fly with the biggest fish weighing 9 lbs. We saw some 15 lb pond pumpkins but couldn’t get them to eat. Big suprise of the day was a school of big jacks from 25-35 lbs crashing schools of small redfish. We landed one that weighed 24 1/2 pounds on the boga. He was spitting up 12-14″ redfish when he got close to the boat.