Greetings from Captain Buddy, It’s the day after Halloween, and I’m leaving tomorrow morning on my annual bow hunt to southeastern Colorado, this time in pursuit of the illusive whitetail, which are found in an area once populated by North American plains Indians, including the Shawnee, Apache, and Kiowa tribes. Though the last few years…
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Greetings from Captain Buddy, A perfect cast is a thing of beauty. If it is a long cast, it is like a note of music extended and held. In all other sports, the moment of impact separates you from the very object you are projecting in beautiful flight, but the execution of a perfect cast…
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Greetings from Captain Buddy, I hope that you’re all having a great summer! It’s been a cooler than normal last few months here, with fronts coming through, bringing those predictable temperature drops. My fingers are crossed that no major systems come through. Everything is green and lush. Our trees have produced bumper crops of grapefruit,…
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Greetings from Captain Buddy, A warmer than expected spring made for some above average fishing, with lots of small snook in the 1-2 year old range reaching the end of our lines. At first, I was puzzled, asking myself “Why this year are we seeing so many snook in the smaller size, unlike the previous…
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Greetings from Captain Buddy, We wrapped up January, traditionally our coldest month of the year, starting out our day (on more than one occasion) in the bitter high 40’s. Despite the cooler temps, we still managed a respectable catch on each outing. And if I’m entirely honest, January landed us more small catch than we…
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Greetings from Captain Buddy, I elected to take more time this year for myself, pursuing Whitetail and Elk during bow-hunting season in Colorado. Over a 30-day period this fall, I must have examined at least 25 bucks within 30 yards. Most were 1 ½ to 2.5-year old deer, on the verge of magnificence, yet at…
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Greetings from Captain Buddy, With the migration pattern and the summer heat, it’s a tamer time of the year in the western Everglades that’s not historically known for racking up numbers each time you get out. However, I was pleasantly surprised to find the July-August period through the end of the first week in August,…
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Greetings from Captain Buddy, A great 2 months out on the water! May brought us a 12.5” record rainfall, making it extremely hard to pinpoint tarpon on the shallow flats at times. Even so, I’ve experienced one of the best tarpon fishing years ever. We jumped over 70 mature tarpon above 60 lbs, with most…
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MARCH/APRIL EVERGLADES FISH REPORT Greetings from Captain Buddy, Despite lack of rain, and some significant wild fires in the area, fishing has been good! Snook fishing through the winter and spring has shown improvement over the past few years. Quite possibly, this is due partially to my going deeper into the park on a more…
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Greetings from Captain Buddy, Over the past 6 weeks, we’ve had the good fortune of hooking up with a lot of mature Snook, bringing several to the boat. We’ve had a few over 20 lbs, with just a little too much horse power, snatch the line and race back into the mangrove roots and downed…
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