Thank You Letter from the Klauer Family

We received this letter from Jim Klauer and sons who had a great experience last week aboard the "Valerie". We are very happy that they enjoyed themselves and we look forward to taking you guys out again soon.

I wanted to thank you and Pisces for a great day on the water. The boys had fun, the crew was great and the suggestion of going for the game fish first and then go out for Marlin. We had 5 Yellowtail in the box by 7:30 and then went out to chase down a few Marlin. We never got one on the line, but it was fun getting them to strike and chase the bait. The boys loved the burritos, thank the person that added those to the lunch box!

Great trip and we will be back.


Jim Klauer

Costco Wholesale

Vice President

From Redmond, WA

Z Fish Report (4/8/11)

The warmer 82º water is definitely moving back in earlier than expected, and the good fishing we usually get in May and June should soon follow.


Currently the clean water is just 4 miles off the beach with the boats averaging a sailfish or striped marlin a day each. However, the inshore action is still holding strong, with the roosterfish making an early appearance. Normally we start targeting roosters from about mid-May, but Adolfo, on the panga Dos Hermanos, went south to the antennas and releasing 5 from 35 to 45 pounds for his French clients. The fish were taken on slow trolled live bait and surface poppers.

Adolfo with a small rooster

Cheva, on the Dos Hermanos II fished inshore with Troy Sturm of Minnesota for one day. Troy and his wife caught about 20 fish, including lots of sierras, a few chulas, and a couple of other species.

Ed Kunze
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spring thaw

The AF crew is back from the arctic temperatures of the Colorado Mountains and settling back into the warmer climates of Florida. They brought back lots of great photos and a bag of water to show this southern breed what snow looks like. It looks different in the pictures. Now, on with the real news…

Tag, you're it! Costa has a new style launching this week; Tag. Tag features the 360-degree co-molded technology and durable integral hinges for that "forget-they’re-on" fit we know and love. The name "Tag" comes from Costa's active support of sportfish and billfish tagging programs. Costa is as devoted to protecting our resources as they are to protecting our eyes. Look for more about Costa's new Tag in next week's Mogan Mail.

One of our own has joined the cause. Longtime Mogan Maniac, Mark Bellotte (aka CooKnFish), has been brought on to the FINS Pro Staff. Mark’s work on the kayak fishing front, his monthly column in Saltwater Angler Magazine and knowledge of the product makes him a perfect candidate to introduce FINS to anglers and tackle shops in the Tampa Bay area. Thursday, April 7th, Mark Bellotte will be giving a seminar at the South Shore Anglers fishing club at Little Harbor's Sunset Grill in Ruskin. The seminar starts @ 7:00 pm and everyone is welcome. There might even be someone playing Jimmy Buffett music on the patio. Guess which song we’re going to request . . .

Got space? Another new episode of Addictive Fishing is coming Friday! Tune into SunSports Friday @ 10:30 am for "Relentless Fog." The Mogan Man goes offshore with Capt. Mike Ellis to put a serious bend in the new Wright & McGill rods. We’ve got yellowfin and blackfin tuna on the menu in Louisiana as Blair drops a DOA Swimming Mullet over the side. Get your fix Friday or see it again Sunday @ 9:30 pm and again Wednesday @ 6:30 am. Put it on your DVR and you can watch it a few more times before another new episode airs next Friday.

They don't have to be big to be Mogans. John-Paul posted this beautiful trout caught in Biscayne Bay this week. It really brings out the blue in his 7’9" Flats Blue rod. John-Paul, thanks for the photo. We're happy to see you enjoying the Wright & McGill signature series rod. Send your pictures and stories to our FaceBook page and watch for our new web site which allows pictures and comments to be uploaded directly to the front page (coming soon!). You could be our next Mogan of the Week.

Help, I’m molting,
BillBird 

Lots of Monster Largemouth Bass

Lake Management season 2011 is in full swing and we are off to a great start. I have been electrofishing and consulting and installing aeration systems from sunup to sundown and Justin and co have been working up bunches of ground, and doing all kinds of other miscellaneous lake and land management stuff. I don't get much time to write anymore, but I do have to write an article for Heartland Outdoors every month due by the 15th. Since May is officially the month of the Largemouth, this article is going to be about raising Bigmouth Bass.

I was digging through some pictures trying to find some good article photos when I decided just to plop a few of em here online as well. For those of you who know me well, I actually am not a bass fan partly because I just got bored with the same old same old. Plus I am too lazy of a fisherman to want to stand up and cast all day long.

Anyhow growing big largemouth bass is about as easy as it gets in ponds and lakes. You have to get the body of water started out right or you have quite a bit of work to do to play catch up. People trying to grow big bass typically are the ones who have the most problems doing it because all of the common knowledge being taught out in the media is dead wrong for growing big bass! One quick tip, if your afraid of killing bass, you will never consistently grow big bass. The biggest obstacle people need to overcome is they need to forget everything they have been taught and everything they already "know" about stocking, growing, and angling for bass.

I'm not going into any details about the secrets to growing big bass here, you will have to get a copy of the May magazine for that information. Just email jeff@hearlandoutdoors.com and for the price of postage he will mail you a copy.

Here I am just going to plop a few pictures of monster largemouth bass being grown in private ponds and lakes right here in Central Illinois:

So anyhow, my few turned into quite a few and now its late and I got to get to bed. Those bass only scratch the surface of the pics I got floating around unorganized. This year in 2011 I am pretty excited to check back in on a few lakes in particular!!!

PEEPS

Although I haven't been blogging the the past couple of days, fishing has remained stellar! Lots of action on drys and emergers...today the trend continued. I took my main man Peeps out for a while. We caught some nice rainbows on nymphs and emergers, chased around some big browns slurping caddis, and then decided to put the meat stick on them! We turned 4 really nice browns over 20 inches in dead Low water! We managed to land this nice brown and this nice rainbow! Life is good on the Little Red River!

Football or fishing ??

I spent last weekend in Perth with the travelling support of the mighty Killie. A nil nil draw on a pitch as bald as my head. I couldn't do that every weekend, but again like fishing sometimes your there just for a day out. Good company with a few light refreshments but I did probably play in better games when I kicked a ball.

I looked these two classics out today, Daiwa Amorphous Whisker's . The BTB's in better nick for its age than me to be fair. I intend to put these two to some use over the next six weeks or so with maybe Plaice, Flounder, Turbot and possibly an early Smoothie. Bass will start to make an appearance around now not to mention Mullet at the end of the month.

The lure gear was dusted down, Ireland's been booked since January and July wont be long till its here so happy days!

PUT ME IN COACH, I'M READY TO PLAY!

After a long winter I was excited to finally prepare Jen Wren III to be launched

Now both Jen Wren boats are in the water and ready for action

We were acompanied on our Jen Wren III shake down cruise by bothers Dave and Gene Ordway. The day started fishing in shore and the boys quickly landed a couple of nice leopard grouper.

Moving off shore it didn't take Gene long to hook a nice dorado. It didn't take long to get him hooked on Accurate reels either.

Not a bad way to start our season

When Dave got on the boat in the morning he told me he was a lucky fisherman. He quickly proved it to be true. We boated our first wahoo of the season on our first day on the water. He wasn't kidding. Look at the way this wahoo was hooked. We weren't so lucky with the next though and did loose one of Dave's lures.

The sea temps on the East Cape are warming, fish are becoming active and it looks like the making of a great season.

Mark Rayor

www.vistaseasport.com
www.thejenwren.com