We started a little slow because we caught the tide change and thus the  water was not moving for the first 40 minutes or so. Once that changed it was non stop sharks with 1 or 2 on all the time. Mat and Alex got very good with their fishing skills after a little instruction from Dave and I and I see a couple really good anglers developing with a little more practice.
We had another very large tarpon on for a short while but he got around another boats anchor line and broke him off.
Once again a fun trip with good people and lots of action.

Final Day for the boys from Philly and it ended on a good note catching some more mahi to take back with them. Dave said he had to eat a hamburger last night because he had been eating fish for the last 5 days and just had to take a night off. See you next year guys!

Brandon, Greg and Dave on a half day today found out what schoolie wars are all about. We caught 20 nice schoolies with one teenager in the mix and fortunately they were close in. We only had a half day to find them but the gang wanted to go for it and it turned out to be the right choice.
Dave decided they had so much fun they would try a full day mahi tomorrow. Here we go again!

Dave Brando and Greg got to experience what a 150 lb tarpon can do on our evening shark/tarpon trip yesterday . Never got the chance to go after the fish as it ran off 100+ yards of line in seconds and right after it jumped we pulled the hook. Dave was awed by the power and speed but unfortunately it was the only tarpon bite last night so we will have to wait till Monday to have him catch one.
 We did wear them down though, catching  a dozen or so big sharks while waiting for the next tarpon bite.

Greg , Brandon and father Dave came to the keys to spend some time together. They fished a 1/2 day on Saturday and caught 20 yellowtail. PA bass fishermen, it took a fair amount of instruction and  a small baseball bat to finally get them to stop ripping the heads off the yellowtail with a hook set. My next goal is to teach them that the drag system on a reel is not just a novelty.

Evan and his dad's 3rd time with us on an evening trip and although it was slower then the last time they were out, we did catch 1 out of 2 tarpon and several sharks. Evan has become an extremely good angler and it's been a real pleasure watching him get better each time he fishes with us.
Thanks Steve and Evan

Had Henry, Winston and Mom on board for our evening trip but Dr George decided to stay in the jacuzzi so it was up to the boys to catch all the sharks. We lost count of the number of sharks but we do know we jumped 3 tarpon that we just couldn't keep the hooks in. The family is headed home but the boys are planning their return to finally catch one of those tarpon.

Not as good as our morning half but we did a lot  of tutoring. This group will be ready to go next time they yellowtail fish with us. Almost everyone had a good time although a couple didn't have quite as good of stomachs as the others.

I felt really safe today with all these Doctors on board (or soon to be). They were pretty good fishermen too, catching 20 tails and a mahi that swam up. Winston caught the mahi on 12 lb with a 14 lb leader (yellowtail rod), needless to say we were holding our collective breaths until we stuck  him with the gaff!

Nicer yellowtail and bigger mahi with Charlie and Brit today  although the wind was about the same. It was a 3/4 so we yellowtailed for a bit and then went out to 300 ft where there was a nice current edge. We found the fish under a couple frigate birds while live baiting on that edge. Nice little bonus and some happy clients we headed home.

Charlie and Brit on an almost perfect day with the yellowtails. The current was west the wind was west and the tails were hungry. An almost perfect day with the exception of the 20+ knots of wind which we had to deal with after catching our limit of tails and going out to look for the mahi. It was not as bad as it could have been (or I expected) because even out 12 miles the current was still west and therefore still with the wind.
Charlie and Brit will be back tomorrow for a slightly shorter day, hoping for a little less wind but ready it catch again.

We had some really nice yellowtail yesterday but the ones we caught today were bigger. the big one Daniel caught was 25 inches long and Kenny caught this mutton along with a couple more. Couple of very happy clients that are coming back soon.

Dennis and Karen fished with the KKIV four years ago and picked the perfect day to come back. Beautiful weather, one out of two sails and their limit of big yellowtail all on a morning trip. Dennis and Karen are set to retire soon and this will be an annual evennt they say.
Congratulations to both.

Hard not to keep going to the yellowtail spot when you are catching big tails like this. Scott, John and Sheryl kept them coming in, although getting rid of a 20 lb cuda definitely helped our hook-up to catch ratio.

The reef was super clean with gulf stream water right up against the edge but the yellowtail still bit. We caught 20 beauties  and then tried deep dropping. Caught grouper, porgies and tiles but nothing we could keep. The AJ's were biting well but so were the sharks and all we could get to the boat were the heads. All in all a good day with beautiful weather!

We started out going off shore but the mahi were few and far between so we ended up back on the reef. The condition were great and even better the tails were hungry. The boys from Naples caught 20 tails and a couple triggers for their dinners the next few nights. See you next time guys and remember "close the bail and wind first".

We got to fish with Mr Don and CP again on Saturday. It's always a pleasure to have the Kalis's on board and although the bite was slow we caught 3 nice muttons. Cp caught this big one.

Three sharks hooked up by 2 brothers and one of their sons all fighting fish at the same time was the highlight of our evening trip yesterday. We caught a total of 10 and everyone had a great time. The family heads back to England in a few days but plan to come back next year for more shark battles.

Trammell went 1 for 2 on Tarpon last evening. We caught a couple sharks , jumped off 1 tarpon and then the rain and wind started. Hooking up another shark and had just hooked up another tarpon when it started to pour. I pulled the anchor and Trammell caught the tarpon, switch rods and then proceeded to catch the shark.
We ended up catching a total of 5 shark and the 1 tarpon with Trammell being the star angler for the evening.

Nash, Wyatt and parents Nicky and Lee have spent an evening of nonstop shark catching with us Tuesday. Tide was just changing as we got there but as soon as the water started to move the bite was on. Two very tired and happy boys said goodnight 3 hours later.

17 lbs of mutton snapper being held by and caught by Wilson with his father Scott photobombing . Not to be outdone Wilson's 10 year old sister catches her 1st sailfish.

Rob and Eric with their wives suffered through a unusual all day rain event on our trip today but in spite of the rain they are going home with plenty of fresh fish to eat.

The picture does not do it justice but we had to catch this 129 lb bull shark on a 50 international this evening. We usually get burnt on these bull sharks in the channel because we can't get them stopped before they get around a marker or go through the bridge.
Tonight we set up and saw him swimming so we put the big rod out and hooked him almost immediately . We caught around 10 sharks in our 3 hr trip and the last one was close to or exceeded 200 lbs!.
Tim, Tina, Hunter, Kayla and Conner had a blast, taken lots of video and pictures and planning their next trip.

Tennyson has caught a lot of fish in his young life but this was his first amberjack. His was the largest of 3 jacks we caught today.

William and Dawn are Trammell's proud parents helping him hold his sailfish flag up. Although we had to cut the day short due to a small case of seasickness it was still a tremendously successful day.