Hi all;
this is the trailer of the TV show FORD OUTFITTERS in the Sportsman Channel
http://www.thefordoutfitters.com/outfitters
It was so much fun fishing with my buddy Conway Bowman again.
Wednesday, September 24, 2014
FORD OUTFITTERS with Conway Bowman and Capt. Martin Carranza
Hi all;
this is the trailer of the TV show FORD OUTFITTERS in the Sportsman Channel
http://www.thefordoutfitters.com/outfitters
It was so much fun fishing with my buddy Conway Bowman again.
FISHING EVERGLADES NATIONAL PARK
July and August in South Florida is very hot, both in terms of weather and fishing and Everglades National Park is the epicenter of the best fishing in the world.
This is the time of the year when you can catch almost every species everywhere in the Park.
Schools of finger Mullet and Mojarra are plentiful and behind these are the fish we want to catch and you can use the method you want be it live bait, cut bait, lures and flies.
If you are a fly fisherman any mullet-y looking fly about 3" long is the ticket to catch fish consistently. I usually tie my F Mullet and Bleeding mullet patterns with deer hair tails, saddle or arctic fox collar and Ep fibers dubbed for the head.
For lures I usually buy Charlie's big dipper and super shads in pearl white and watermellon.
There are lots of opportunities for sight fishing the turtle grass flats, sandy flats on the edges of the keys, muddy banks at the lower stages of the tide and tarpon rolling, especially during low light conditions.
If you are prospecting water as opposed to sight fishing I usually prefer to fish under branches, tight to the mangroves or covering well marked cuts with a good current where I know the fish are hanging.
While blind casting for the more desired species we will also catch Snapper, Lady fish, Topsails and more.
This excellent fishing conditions will remain for the next couple of months and I look forward to put my clients into consistent action lots of fish.
Double Refisfh for Father and son team.
Silver prince
Sight fished flats redfish
Fat summer snook
Baby tarpon
Snook under the branches
Fat redfish
Shark
Low tide creek redfish
A fat baby tarpon
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This is the time of the year when you can catch almost every species everywhere in the Park.
Schools of finger Mullet and Mojarra are plentiful and behind these are the fish we want to catch and you can use the method you want be it live bait, cut bait, lures and flies.
If you are a fly fisherman any mullet-y looking fly about 3" long is the ticket to catch fish consistently. I usually tie my F Mullet and Bleeding mullet patterns with deer hair tails, saddle or arctic fox collar and Ep fibers dubbed for the head.
For lures I usually buy Charlie's big dipper and super shads in pearl white and watermellon.
There are lots of opportunities for sight fishing the turtle grass flats, sandy flats on the edges of the keys, muddy banks at the lower stages of the tide and tarpon rolling, especially during low light conditions.
If you are prospecting water as opposed to sight fishing I usually prefer to fish under branches, tight to the mangroves or covering well marked cuts with a good current where I know the fish are hanging.
While blind casting for the more desired species we will also catch Snapper, Lady fish, Topsails and more.
This excellent fishing conditions will remain for the next couple of months and I look forward to put my clients into consistent action lots of fish.
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Thursday, June 12, 2014
JUNE IN SOUTH FLORIDA
JUNE IN SOUTH FLORIDA
Early summer in SoFlo is the best time of the year to fly fish. There are fish everywhere and they are on the bite!
This is also the height of our Tarpon season.
Weather has been very windy during the first two weeks but no it seems to have returned to low to moderate which is a plus when you are fly fishing.
Redfish are steadily tailing in grass and muddy beds on the lower stages of the tides. We have noticed some large schools of 50 + fish in Florida Bay. We found snook on the sandy beaches and in large groups moving fast over sea grass flats. And speckled trout seem to be everywhere and hungry.
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Tuesday, April 15, 2014
EVERGLADES FLY FISHING HAS BEEN AWESOME
I have fished a lot all winter long the GREAT Everglades National Park. Weather has been very cooperative all winter despite some wind but as you know, you can always find a lee almost everywhere in the park.
Peter and Thayr, two great buddies and anglers having fun with snook, trout and redfish!
Mike Smith guide in Virginia with a large snook.
Check Mike's web page. http://www.newriverflyfish.com/
We even had time to fish and film the next episode for FORD OUTFITTERS with my buddy Conway Bowman.
Check Conway's web page: www.bowmanbluewater.com
Two of my best fishing friends, Capt. Danny Ortiz and Capt Conway Bowman
Joe and Wayne, two very accomplished anglers that also fished with me in Argentina for Trout and Golden Dorado. Joe caught a hog Dorado about 20 lbs.
For all these fishing we used 8 wt. fly rods, Rio Redfish fly lines and Rio Intermediate saltwater fly lines.
I will keep you posted with more fishing information soon.
Peter and Thayr, two great buddies and anglers having fun with snook, trout and redfish!
Mike Smith guide in Virginia with a large snook.
Check Mike's web page. http://www.newriverflyfish.com/
Check Conway's web page: www.bowmanbluewater.com
Two of my best fishing friends, Capt. Danny Ortiz and Capt Conway Bowman
For all these fishing we used 8 wt. fly rods, Rio Redfish fly lines and Rio Intermediate saltwater fly lines.
I will keep you posted with more fishing information soon.
Tuesday, October 15, 2013
Fishing with Keisuke Ota from Japan
My friend Frank Carbone, owner of Hawghunter Guide Services, had a client from Japan who wanted to catch his first snook. Enter Keisuke Ota, from Japan.
Due to the closure of the Everglades National Park (Govt. shutdown) we had to move to the western edge of the park and fish "outside". Not a problem, as I said, fish are everywhere in South Florida, all I had to do was find them.
We drove almost 2 hrs. from Miami to Marco Island and started fishing around Cape Romano. I fished this area before and remembered the spots, so finding fish wasn't that difficult, or was it?
We started fishing right outside Coon Key, a spot that produced some nice fish before and we couldn't connect with any snook nor redfish, all we had were some tiny Jacks (they fight hard by the way). We spot a couple 30" + redfish but no hooking.
Later me moved to the Souther edge of Cape Romano searching for snook on the beach but these fish vanished from the shore, probably because the weather temperature dropped 20 degrees from the previous week. So we kept searching until we found a flat with a channel on the side that produced a bunch of small snook (mission accomplished with Keisuke) and bunch of large redfish, in very skinny water.
Kei managed to land one on his Crappie rod that fought like a demon.
Frank, as usual, was catching a lot of snook casting to the mangrove shoreline. What a great caster. He put his plug in every hole, like it should be.
The bait of choice was a 3" gulp shrimp on a jighead, for all species. We tried with some twitchbaits and Kei got a couple of boils, but no strikes.
It was a great fishing day and Kei got his snook. Life is good.
Due to the closure of the Everglades National Park (Govt. shutdown) we had to move to the western edge of the park and fish "outside". Not a problem, as I said, fish are everywhere in South Florida, all I had to do was find them.
We drove almost 2 hrs. from Miami to Marco Island and started fishing around Cape Romano. I fished this area before and remembered the spots, so finding fish wasn't that difficult, or was it?
We started fishing right outside Coon Key, a spot that produced some nice fish before and we couldn't connect with any snook nor redfish, all we had were some tiny Jacks (they fight hard by the way). We spot a couple 30" + redfish but no hooking.
Later me moved to the Souther edge of Cape Romano searching for snook on the beach but these fish vanished from the shore, probably because the weather temperature dropped 20 degrees from the previous week. So we kept searching until we found a flat with a channel on the side that produced a bunch of small snook (mission accomplished with Keisuke) and bunch of large redfish, in very skinny water.
Kei managed to land one on his Crappie rod that fought like a demon.
Frank, as usual, was catching a lot of snook casting to the mangrove shoreline. What a great caster. He put his plug in every hole, like it should be.
The bait of choice was a 3" gulp shrimp on a jighead, for all species. We tried with some twitchbaits and Kei got a couple of boils, but no strikes.
It was a great fishing day and Kei got his snook. Life is good.
September Everglades
September was a great month for fishing the Everglades. As usual, fish where everywhere and happy. I had the opportunity to fish with great photographer Nick Shirghio www.nick-photo.com and he had captured some great moments.
Fly fishing was our preferred method for stalking the flats for redfish, baby tarpon, snook and other species, but soft plastics and twitchbaits were the weapon of choice of the conventional anglers.
South Florida never stops to amaze me, especially Florida bay all the way to Naples. There are so many fish that sometimes I think that all the fish from the world has moved here.
Summer fishing was great and I expect the fall to be even better but, now, with the changing weather and some cold fronts moving into South Florida we expect a change in the pattern of fish behaviour and we will have to act accordingly.
Keep fishing my friend!
Fly fishing was our preferred method for stalking the flats for redfish, baby tarpon, snook and other species, but soft plastics and twitchbaits were the weapon of choice of the conventional anglers.
South Florida never stops to amaze me, especially Florida bay all the way to Naples. There are so many fish that sometimes I think that all the fish from the world has moved here.
Summer fishing was great and I expect the fall to be even better but, now, with the changing weather and some cold fronts moving into South Florida we expect a change in the pattern of fish behaviour and we will have to act accordingly.
Keep fishing my friend!
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