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