Merry Christmas!!!!!

Seasons Greetings,

During the week of Christmas and the rest of the winter(till march 31) I will be bottom fishing inshore(within 10 miles) and offshore(20 miles +).
I have been receiving emails full of questions that this website could answer in a few minutes of READING. So please look over my site then email me. I will try to answer all you questions here!

All those who wish to read, I provide everything for your fishing trip except food and drink.
You are allowed to bring beer but no hard alcohol or drugs.
(I don't take credit cards, payment in cash or check only)
Two of my most popular trips for the winter are my 4 hour trip or the LONG DAY 10 hour trip.
For those of you who only want to catch a consistently big fish of 20-40 lbs ,then bring lots of money($1450 tip included) and book an 10 hour trip(Can take 6 of you).I guarantee you a worn out arm within 6 hours of the trip and a 300lb cooler of fish or better!

My 4 hour trip(650$ tip included)is for those who would like to catch a lot of fish (50-80 fish average for 4 persons) including lots of short groupers in the 16-21 inch range as well as a few keeper grouper and many mangrove snappers. We fish with light tackle on these trips and have great success all the time. This is a great family trip for youngsters and adults alike. I love this trip myself because it is so much fun and your not out there all day!
There are some openings left for the week of Dec 25-31st, call for faster service!

Here are some pictures of my 4 and 10 hour trips.
You choose, then call me and I will give you a great fishing trip!
Merry Christmas,
Tommy Tinacci

Fishing report for Dec 1st ,2008

Dear Friends,
I hope you all have had a great Thanksgiving with your families and had a chance to reflect on your wonderful position as we have been given everything.
My fishing trips have been lots of fun for both me and my guests. We have been catching many keeper gag groupers inshore as well as other bottom fish.
The fishing has been so good we have been catching 50 plus fish ,30 of them groupers in just a few hours for 4 people on board. The grouper have been running 5-15lbs.
Things are good and business is slowly picking up and I'm very thank full for the few people that choose to fish with me. Not only are they very satisfied at the end of their trip but have all gained a friend in Sarasota while doing it. Most of our 200 trips per year are families I enjoy serving while serving the Lord.
My wife Megan,daughter Felina and I thank you for that and we will continue to give you all great service though the New year.
Enjoy getting into the Holiday season,
Capt. Tommy Tinacci

No red tide = Excellent fall fishing in Sarasota

Hello Everyone ,
Thanks for stopping by and reading my report for my two weeks toiling in the sun. You may think that 60- 80 fish for a 4 hour with 4 people is alot but for this Brooklyn boy it just another day on 'Ahi Spirit'.
Enjoy the pictures, if you need to catch larger fish like the ones in the bottom picture, then book a 10 hour trip. Bottom fishing is excellent and I'm not going to tell stories like all the other captains out there. If you want a different experience on the water ,one you will think back on sitting in traffic 6 months later then call me. I take care of my people and they all know I love em. See ya.
Tommy Tinacci

Continued GREAT fishing!!!!

Greetings,
The fishing this week for all trips we had was just fantastic. The continued great fishing is probably due to a dip in temperatures and an upcoming waxing moon phase.
A couple of spots I hit this week were full of groupers. Many keepers came up in addition to a limit of mangrove snappers,banded rudderfish, trigger fish and many other grouper that were just missing the legal measurement.
The best part of these trips is the fact that we catch all these fish with light tackle rods and reels. This in itself is lot's of fun! Especially for a kid.
Well I could go on but am going to keep it simple and down to the pictures below of my trip results. Call me if you need faster service on a trip . I always have split charters set up.
capt.Tommy

Fishing with the stars!!

Howdy ,
That's right! Country music star Darryl Worley fished with me this weekend along with 106.5 CTQ's on air personality Maverick, Heidi and Sammy Cruise.
Our trip was terrific! Beautiful weather and a crazy bite from start to finish. Mangrove snappers were coming over the rail as fast as I'd like and then as luck would have it a 30lb king fish slammed into one of our live baits. Mitch, a neighbor of Marina Jacks, battled this fish on a bait rod that should have lost all the power pro I put on the reel. That's were the luck really came in. After Mitch went around the boat some he landed on of the 2ND biggest kings of the year caught on Catch the Spirit!
We also caught a couple of keeper grouper in the 26-28inch range as well as some shorts we released. The action was steady and everyone had a great time,including me!
Darryl is a great down to earth person, it was like havin a big brother on the boat. We had a great time. Funny part was I didn't know I was taking a famous person fishing before the trip. My wife knew his music and WAS LIKE YOUR TAKING DARRYL WORLEY FISHING!!!!!holySH>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Our video's of this trip can be found on country station website www.1065CTQ.com
http://www.wctq.com/pages/1065ctqtube.html
Thanks CTQ for a memorable fishing trip!!
Capt. Tommy

Really good fishing now on 4 and 6 hour trips!

Hello All,
This week was awesome fishing on the 4 hour trips. We are taking many mangrove snappers, groupers and mackerel. Here's some pictures of us in action this week!
Enjoy and protect my friends,
Capt. Tommy

Excellent bottom fishing despite market woes!

The Hell with the economy and the stock markets side show!!!
Give me a call and get out fishing like these great guys from Kentucky did this morning. This is a mangrove snapper, banded rudderfish and mackerel fiesta off Siesta key! Hip Hip Horray!! This is good for your soul. Drink a little ,eat a little and share this wonderful bounty with your friends. Get off the couch and go fishing!
Peace out,
capt. T

sailfish on a 4 hour?

July 21, 2008 fishing report

Hello All,
The past few weeks have been very hot , high water temps and slow fishing for the big fish inshore 4 hour trip. Although a few trips have seen some nice permit to 26 pounds ,that's been it for catching big fish within 10 miles of shore.
That's not to say we cannot go out and catch fish ,you just need to fish a 8 or 10 hour day to get to the cool water offshore to catch Big amberjacks and grouper and sharks. Then you will catch big fish, but don't ask me for big fish Right Now on a 4 hour it's not going to happen. Even the barracuda on a half day were not cooperating.
OK, ....what I have been doing for my 4 hour people is catching them delicious snappers.Mangrove and key west snapper have been very good and they are 30- 50 plus keepers for a couple hours fishing on a 4 hour trip. They are also catching short red groupers, trigger fish ,porgy and others. The action has been very good and we use a very light setup to catch them so its lots of fun for all. That 's been it and I am just waiting for the mid august Spanish mackerel and tuna run. That will be a very good time to come out. We will be casting live shiners of our boats and chumming the fish into a frenzy. Usually happens every season after the July full moon which was last Friday the 19Th.
That's all folks!
Enjoy your summer in spite of all the crap you see on tv ..Get out of the house !!!!!,
Tommy Tinacci

July 13, 2008 Fishing Report

Greetings from 95 degree heat and 100 percent humidity!!@#$%^&
Yes, it sure is HOT down here as some of you reading this already know. The fishing has been weird ,one day it's great the next day I'm scratching the coconut to come up with my next trick.
Honestly reporting, I have had a few trips that were very fish less despite a 110% effort I put forth and displayed to my customer.Of coarse we had a beautiful day and the sun was shinning and the waters were calm but.... just too calm with very hot temps and fish hanging in deeper water outside of the time limit I had to fish.
We caught a beautiful netful of bait only to chum the hell out of nothing. On a couple of trips the tunas were foaming the surface and eating my chum but refused the hooked baits, go figure.
Now , you may say to yourself why would he want to report 3 lesser trips to the millions of people out there reading this, FOR the truth . I know were used to being lied to by most other things we here about in this society ,but I personally live in a more natural barbaric world of my own and in this mental world I live in I'm not politically correct and I love my weapons and my God and the truth in all things. So.... yeah, us fishing guides , we roll with the fruitful seasons and sometimes lesser trips can occur.
Since I last reported to you I have had about 8 trips and 3 of which we caught small groupers and a variety of bottom fish. The other 5 we caught permit to 26 pounds and Goliath groupers to about 130lbs. These are some photos of Jim and his family from Chicago I had with me this past week .Thanks for the photos and the trip Jim!
My trip yesterday was really good. Joe Motta and his son Joe caught over 80 mangrove snappers( I stopped counting after a while) and went home with our limit for 2 persons. I culled though the lot and took only the better fish. Excellent table fare!
All in all even though it has been hot, the deep water fishing is good on 8 hour trips and inshore I have determined that we will be catching mangrove snappers and then go for the big permits and groupers, so that your guaranteed to catch fish you can take home. This is will be for this coming week. Most of the winds this coming week will be west 10knots plus so that may spark up the tunas inshore.
Thanks for reading this,
capt. Tommy Tinacci