I was in Orlando Florida for a week doing the Disney World thing. It was my son's make a wish trip. We had a great time and fortunately for me I had time to sneak away for half a day to do some flats fishing. Fishing on the flats is my favorite, I can't get enough of it. On this trip I went to Titusville, and went out in the famous Mosquito lagoon. I must say it was everything that I had seen on TV or read about. What a great place, I want to move to Florida so bad. How great would it be to flats fish all the time.


The top picture is the biggest sea trout I caught that day. I know its not a giant, but it was actually my first ever. The redfish is also my first, a 15lb beautiful specimen.

I threw a fly rod for a little bit, but the cloudy conditions really made fly fishing tuff, which doesn't bother me because lately I am finding more and more situations where fly fishing is not only the least effective method, but its kind of a pain in the ass for various reasons. So most of the day we threw plugs and large live shrimp. I did have some sweet blow ups on top water plugs from redfish. A 15lb redfish will get your heart going a little faster that a 4lb bass.

Was in Idaho last week for work. I ended up have Thursday afternoon off so I wanted to do some fishing. The only river I could find that wasn't blown out and too high was the south fork of the Boise River. So I went down there to check it out and see if I could catch anything. Unfortunately I did not do my homework first, so I had no idea what to through as far as fly selection. There was a caddis hatch, but I had no luck with that. So after about an hour I decided to through streamers, good thing too because I ended up catching this beautiful rainbow. I had to fish a full sinking line to get the fly down deep enough. My fly of choice was an olive circus peanut. I actually had never caught anything on the circus peanut before, but I had not fished it that much either. So I sold out and fished it. Well needless to say I am sold. Great fly and I had a great time fishing. And I think I am probably turned into an exclusive streamer guy for trout, well maybe I will occasionally nymph.