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Another great day for BIG RED FISH!

admin — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 02:54:21 +0000

Jack and Perry had their last day on the water today, their 4th strait day landing monster red fish on fly. We boated 6 more pigs today, 25+ pound red fish, the biggest today was 33 lbs. These guys have been spoiled with great weather and lots of big fish!

This first fish was 33 lbs, another absolute monster!

This one was caught by Perry, a nice 30 lb red fish!

another nice 28 lb fish caught by Jack

The Fishing is on Fire In the Biloxi Marsh!

admin — Sat, 09 Oct 2010 01:41:11 +0000

We have been blessed with incredible weather all week! The red fish and black drum are everywhere in the marsh right now gorging themselves on white shrimp, crabs, and mullet. This past week we had four 30+ fish days on fly, countless double headers, and as many shots as you could handle at fish crawling down the shorelines. We are starting to see more 20+ pound red fish every day and the huge black drum, 30+ pounds are everywhere and offer great sight fishing opportunities. The best thing about this is that the fish are only going to get bigger as we get further into fall. Tight Lines!

Great day on the Louisiana Marsh!

admin — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 04:03:17 +0000

I had a great day on the Louisiana Marsh today with Kyle from Houston. Expectations were high due to the great weather forecast. We had light winds, clean water and tons of sun. The fish have been cold as of late due to the cold fronts we have been getting every other day but with the good sun heating up the flats it was only a matter of time before the monster redfish showed back up. Kyle started fly fishing about a year ago and impressed me with his casting for only picking up the sport a few months back. The redfish and black drum were suspended in about 3 feet of water and you could see their orange glow from a few hundred feet away making them easy targets. Kyle and I started off the day landing a dozen nice redfish in the 7-12 pound range which was a good intro for him as it was his first time fly fishing the Louisiana marsh. After we messed around with them and had a quick bite to eat I told Kyle we needed to go step up to the big leagues and go look for some monsters and oh did we find them. From 12:30 to 4:30 I don’t think Kyle ever had time to put his fly back in his hand. He was getting shot after shot at 25-40 pound redfish and black drum, it was almost like a shooting gallery out there! We ended up boating 8 redfish over 25 pounds the second half of the day with two absolute monsters that weighed in at 30 and 33 pounds and I can’t tell you how many other fish ate the fly that we didn’t hook and we must have broken at least another half dozen big reds off. Kyle was hooked up to a 25 lb fish at one point and there were soo many fish around the boat he told me to pick up a rod and catch one. So I grabbed a rod and picked the biggest redfish I saw and got him to eat the fly, the fish ended up being 33 pounds and Kyle and I had a monster double header. This is a testament to what we can accomplish as fly anglers in the pristine Louisiana marsh. Tight Lines!

Great day on the Louisiana Marsh despite the weather.

admin — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 02:31:25 +0000

We had a great day on the water today despite the crummy conditions. I had good friends Cary Kresge and longtime friend David Olson who runs the Fly Shop of Miami in town for two days. We had scum sky all day but that didn’t stop us. We landed 12 redfish on fly along with 5 black drum and Cary finished the day off by landing a Donkey Kong 32 lb redfish. We had clean water and could still see the fish even though the sight fishingconditions wern’t perfect. A great way to end their first day on the water. Weather looks good for tomorrow so redfish beware!