June 26th, 2008 

Hard work in Tampa Bay pays off!

Hard work definitely pays off, and that is a good thing because the weather hasn’t been the best over the past couple of weeks.   It’s summertime in Florida, which is also known to us natives as the rainy season.  We’ve put a lot of hard work into running from the rain, but it was well worth the running because the fishing before and after storms has been very good.  If you’re out on the water in the summertime in Florida, you better pack your foul weather gear because you can bet that you’ll see rain showers before the day is up.  It can be a real nuisance sometimes, but look at it this way…at least it cools you down a little.

6-26-08 report Captain Van Hubbard.

It’s been busy and we are enjoying good fishing.

          Weather is still a big factor but fishing has been good.  Lot’s of tarpon and some big ones.  The tarpon are plentiful and cooperating when the winds let us locate em.  Crabs are still hard to find but we have been successful thanks to local knowledge.  It helps to live here and know the fishermen and crabbers.  Threadfins are abundant and the Sabiki rigs are your best bet.  Sometimes they are thick enough to cast net but it’s challenging. 

June 26th, 2008 Southeast Florida fishing report

We left off in our last report with Heather Harkavy catching a pending world record Almaco jack of 31.5 pounds. This fish was only 2 ounces off the 50 pound tackle record but is 9 pounds better than the standing junior female angler record.

After Heather's trip we headed for Bimini with Roberta, Marty and Martini Arostegui. We were on a fish scavenger hunt. We wanted IGFA species for Roberta IWFA species list and grey snappers on fly. Roberta caught 4 new species, rainbow runner, cero mackerel, horse eye jack and little tunny.