Permit on fly!!

Congrats to Frank Giacobbe on his fly caught permit with Capt. Scott Cormier

And Paul Pare with a 36 pounder on a crab!!

Cobia

Just a quick report had a trip yesterday with Paul and Nancy Gregory. Lots of medium sized Jacks on the beach but we also got to date my biggest Cobia ever it was 61 pounds on a certified digital scale. Here are a couple pics, hard to get a good picture of an unruley big Cobia.

Winter is gone!!

Fishing has been great!! The beach conditions have been good for the most part and it has been a banner spring for Cobia. The Jacks have been around and Permit are starting to show, hope everyone is getting out and having some fun.

Pompano

A few species took a pretty good beating during the cold weather we had this past month. But one species that really pushed into the river was the Pompano. The bite has been as good as it can be, at one point during my charter this past Saturday I counted almost 100 boats fishing for the tasty little guys. Trout fishing seems to be good as well, we caught seven or eight above average keeper size fish that Saturday.

My trip that Saturday was a group trip set up by Mike Holliday, it included six guides and a dozen anglers. We picked them up at River Palms fish camp and set out for a full day, all the boats did well on Pompano, Ladyfish, and Trout. Each boat kept a handfull of fish for the guys to have a fish fry later that night at River Palms.

The big Jacks should be showing soon.

Busy week

For those of you that don't know I have taken on a new part time job as a Quail hunting guide at a Plantation in Okeechobee FL. I enjoy it, and it gives me the oportunity to earn some extra money as well as using my Labs to flush the Quail after the Pointers go on point. Dog's and wingshooting have become just as much a passion as fishing has been all my life, so to be able to do both is great, but lots of work when you combine a couple hunts plus a few fishing trips together in one week and being at the Southern Angler the rest of the time. Check them out at
www.pinecreeksportingclub.com

A shot of the gate at Pine Creek.


On to the fishing report for the week. The Pompano bite this week has been as good as I have ever seen it. My charter yesterday with Nick Mcdonald and his two friends proved to be a good Pomp day with 15 or 16 to the boat and many more lost, with a mix of Ladyfish to keep the rods bent.

The day before that I was on the water with John Crockett who was an excellent fly caster. John wanted to give the big Jacks on the beach a try but it was to early in the season and we never saw the first one. We did find a nice big school of Cobia to get us excited, along with plenty of Spanish mackeral to keep the action moving.

I will be on the water again tomorrow fishing a group charter with Mike Holliday. Hoping for good weather and lots of action.

December 30th

Trout fishing is always fun.




Taking a day off from fishing on Christmas weekend to shoot some Pheasants with Amy, and the dogs Chase and Boomer.

Winter species have invaded Stuart! Pompano, Jacks, Ladyfish and Spanish Mackeral are in full force and should only get better with this cold weather we are having.

If sea conditions are calm Pecks lake to the south of the St. Lucie inlet will hold an unbelievable amount of mackeral until march or early April.

Pompano and Ladyfish will flood the Indian River more and more with every cold front that passes. Bird Island, Pecks Lake on the inside, and Hells gate will produce fish.

Trout fishing during periods of warmer weather between front will be good as well with most fish better than average. Snook fishing at night on the dock lights will produce well during these same warm periods.

As we get closer to Febuary we will be watching for the Giant Jack Crevalle's to make a showing out on the beach. When we see the first schools of them, we know spring is near.

I hope everyone had a great Christmas and that the new year will be a good one. Feel free to call or stop by the Southern Angler anytime.

Capt. Scott Cormier

Nov 16, 2009

Went out this morning to do some fishing on my own. As a guide I tend to get in a rut every now and then by fishing the same areas that tend to produce fish more often than not. As a guide that is what we have to do, so many time we overlook areas that we haven't fished in a while because we don't want to test it out with a paying customer, so today was my day to fish some places that I don't get the opportunity to explore enough. unfourtunatly the water was very high and milky from a storm that was producing a big swell and pushed a large amount of water into the Indian River, so conditions where not prime but we went anyway. The day produced lots of Ladyfish and Jacks and a few Snook out of the mangroves from areas I haven't fished in a while.

Sailfish!!!

Great day of live chumming! We had a couple suprise visitors. Landed one of two we hooked. A Sailfish eating a bait a couple feet behind the boat really gets the blood pumping. If it dosn't your not alive or really don't like fishing. Thanks to my buddy Capt. John Meskauskas for shooting the photos while he was next to us, he ended up hooking and landing one as well.

Overdue Report

This report is long overdue...Sorry! Fishing this Summer has been great to say the least. The Snook bite in July has been great on Fly and spin, I have tried a few different things this year with the flyrod and all have been successful. I wish I was better at always taking pictures of every fish that my charters have caught but I am still guilty of not always having my camera with me, but here are a few.

Early Morning inlet Snook on Fly.

and another.

Coming at ya!

Beach Tarpon on Spin.

Another inlet Snook.

My wife Amy with a False Albacore on Fly.

This is a picture of a Tarpon in the North Fork of the St. Lucie river that my client hooked on a soft plastic bait called a B.F.L. made by D.O.A. lures here in Stuart Florida. B.F.L. stands for big fish lure, or something else, just use your imagination. Well it worked on this big Tarpon, the pic was taken by my good friend Capt. John Meskauskas, he stepped on my boat to get this amazing shot as you can see the B.F.L. is sliding up the line and still in frame. We had the fish on for a few more jumps before it wore through the 60# leader. Click on the image to get a better look.

Thanks for reading I'll try to post more often.

Tarpon

Conditions on the beach this June have been amazing to say the least, and the Tarpon are here in good numbers. I have been fishing four to five days a week and the fish have cooperated on most days, the weekends have been tuff because of boat traffic...which is is a nice way to put it. Here are a few pics from today. For daily reports check the side bar on the right for my Twitter updates, Thanks for reading.