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Shad Run 2013
Capt. Ron Presley invited me to hop on his 20ft Pathfinder to target some American and Hickory Shad in the St. Johns River. I’m always excited about targeting these fish not just for the fishing, but the scenery in the St. Johns.
Armed with ultra light spinning gear and a 5wt fly rod, Ron and I launched the boat on a beautiful crisp morning with light fog, setting a great mood in both of our minds.
Although it was a pretty short run to the fishing hole, the abundance of wildlife and scenery was amazing!
The Shad were not too active on top this day so it was tough to target with the fly rod. I did catch some small crappie and blue gill, and hooked a couple shad that popped off on the jumps on fly, but we mainly caught fish on bright colored Road Runners and D.O.A. Tiny TerrorEyz on ultra light spin tackle which made it a blast.
I plan on heading back out before the Shad Run ends mainly to enjoy the scenery and catching a few on the fly rod while I’m there.
-Capt. Willy Le
www.NativFlyCharters.com
Bottom fishing with D.O.A. Swimmin’ Mullet
Me, my brother and friends ventured out of Port Canaveral in the 22′ Pathfinder TE this past weekend. Conditions were sloppy but that didn’t stop the fish 80ft below from biting. We used nothing but D.O.A. Swimmin’ Mullet to jig the bottom and caught multiple species including Flounder, Red Snapper, Mangrove Snapper, Sea Bass, Trigger fish, Grouper, Cobia, and Toad fish this day.
-Capt. Willy Le
www.NativeFlyCharters.com
50/50 goes Mahi fishing
You don’t see many bay boats trolling for Mahi here out of Port Canaveral because of the long run that has to be made to reach the depths where Mahi are, this day the 50/50 did. The 50/50 is a 22′ Pathfinder “Tournament Edition”, when the conditions are flat and the Mahi are running, we will make that run to go and get some. First we tried to troll about 25 miles out and got 2 knock downs landing one and losing the other, after hours of trolling with not alot of action, we headed to a bottom spot where we would drop jigs for grouper. Drifting along the structure we come across 2 Dolphin, a Bull and a Cow. Scrambling for baits to throw at them, I got the cow to eat a D.O.A TerrorEyz but after shortly coming unbuttoned we hook up again with a live threadfin that we sabiki’d earlier that morning. We kept the Cow in the water to keep the Bull hanging around but he wouldn’t eat any of our offerings. I then decided to grab my lighter rod with a lighter leader and tied on a smaller hook then put a lively threadfin on it. Once that that bait hit the water, the Bull jumped on it and started giving us a show. I hand the rod to Danny and raced for my camera to take some shots of the action.
Here is the fish caught earlier in the day while trolling…
After the Mahi action we decided to go look for some Cobia. Cobia fishing has definitely slowed down a bit but we did manage to catch 3 fish about 30lbs each.
-Capt. Willy Le
321-303-7805
www.nativeflycharters.com
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