out to lunch

Sorry, we can't answer the phone right now on account of being too busy reeling in fish and stuffing our faces at Mogan Mania! Please leave a message at the sound of the "Fish on, brotha!" The AF crew is on vacation and taking their fans with them. If the state seems like it’s leaning to the East, it's just all of us gathering at River Palm Cottages for the biggest bash of the summer.

We're not letting some cloud with a name rain on our parade. Rain or shine, wind and waves… it doesn’t matter. The Mogan Militia threw a heck of a bash when Tropical Storm Bonnie came knocking last year. Emily is more than welcome to show up this year.

The weekend schedule flows as follows: Fun, fishing, food, family, friendships and more fun. Friday kicks things off with a Meet & Greet Happy Hour under the Chickee. Saturday morning everyone takes to the water to do some fishing and picture taking. After a day on the water, the group will come back to prepare the best dadgum potluck style feast ever assembled. Mr. Producer will turn the pictures into a presentation to show off everyone’s catch of the day. Awesome prizes from our sponsors will be raffled off to raise money for Project Snook so bring some extra spending money! After that, there's no telling what might happen. No, seriously… there's no telling. Not a word! What happens at River Palm… well, you know.

If you're not heading to Mogan Mania this weekend, keep an eye on the Mogan Lounge while we're gone. You never know what might be leaked from the sanctuary of Mogan Mania. Also, visit FINS on FaceBook and "Like" the site. There’s a FINS promo to be announced soon!

Mogan Maidens are back on the front page! Michele Godwin shared her fishing report from Mosquito Lagoon on our FaceBook page. She's been catching monster redfish and trout that easily register as biggans. Michele, thanks for the reports and for putting Mogan Maidens back on the front page!

Packing an extra rubber ducky,
BillBird

Lena's First Brown!

Mason and His wife Lena have been great clients of mine over the years and have both caught some great fish, usually by Mason only because Lena doesnt come on all his adventures. Last week Lena landed her first brown and I only thought it was fair to give her a good ole shout out on this one! Nicely done Lena!

Z Fish Report (8/4/11)

The offshore fishing remains unchanged over the last several weeks. The boats are averaging 2 sailfish a day each, but a few more dorado are showing up. Plus, the yellowfin tuna to 45 pounds have been breezing in and out.

Chad Hansen with his jack crevalle. For some reason
 the photos did not come out for his roosters, and now
he needs to come back

And the roosterfish action remains unchanged…it is still excellent. We are averaging 5 to 7 fish a day per boat. Fly fisherman Chad Hansen of Boise Idaho, fished with Adolfo last week getting 3 nice roosters and a medium jack crevalle, and losing an estimated 60 pound fish when the leader broke. This is what Chad emailed me about his experience: I was very happy with the experience... it could have been one of those magical days if I hadn't missed so many fish but it was definitely worth it. I landed 4 fish and I probably missed 8-10... 2 of which Adolfo said were 50+ pounds

Ed Kunze
To order a copy of my fishing book about fishing here on the West Coast of Mexico: http://www.mexperience.com/store/vuitem.php?itemid=13&sc=KUNZE-13

Few Mullet & Bass from last weeks Fishing!

So spent a bit of time Mullet fishing last week i ended up with 6 Mullet in Total 5 golden Grey's & 1 Thick Lipped here is the First half decent Golden Grey weighing 1lb 9oz

Then another hour went by missing alot of bites i hooked another one in the net! Another Golden grey Weighing 1 lb 10oz

Spent another 30 minutes and called it a day!

Following day tried a differnt spot in the hope for a big thick lipped! but only golden grey's came into the shirvy! and i managed a small one! 

So another hour or so with out hooking anymore we called that a day you get such a good feeling catching these fish after they put you through so much frustration!

Weekend has came!  The Saturday i had those Wrasse as shown on the previous blog post i did - http://dfergusonfishing.blogspot.com/2011/08/personal-best-wrasse-on-soft-plastics.html

Then had a phone call from Ritchie we decided to meet up and fish the incoming tide! The weather was lovely we went wading in just our shorts and 1 rod each.
We started off missing a few bites, but the first fish of the day came to Ritchie & it was his first ever Gilthead Bream!

Lovely looking fish!

So we were surronded by mullet but could we hook any (well that was the problem) The Bass kept getting in the way! Ritchie managed some: 

Quick Picture and released with out a problem.....isn't that right Ritchie ;)  lol

i looked over to my rod sitting in my beach spike to notice i had lots of slack line i ran through the water in Slow motion! Struck into what i thought was a cracking Mullet! it soon Surfaced very far out was a great scrap after 5 mins of playing the fish on my very light 13ft Mullet rod i got it in and it was only a nice Bass :)

This next picture has to be my new favorite! might blow it up and put it on my wall its that good :)

So a few quick snaps and released to live another day! 

Ritchie is now determined to get a golden Grey & the same day as this Bass i lost a decent one on the surface easily 2lb + i was gutted !

But we returned the next day (Monday after work) and Ritchie got one! He got a big applause by our Locals walking by! 

Yeah he was chuffed: 

Thanks for Reading people! i am sure you will hear from me soon :)

Tuesday Mornin' Trout

Amy and I both had the day off yesterday, so we decided we would go pick on a few trout. Well the truth be known she did most of the fishing. I just rowed the boat. I did force feed a fish or two on a hopper and one on a streamer. No monsters but still good fun. Amy fished on them hard and certainly sore lipped quite a few. Her favorite fish on the morning was certainly the nice little brownie taken on a soft hackle!

Sunday and Monday Report

Sunday and Monday I fished a group trip with Jamie. I guided Frank and Tom and Jamie had Herman and Steve. The bite was great. We found the lowest falling water window on the river and got into loads of fish. The river was a zoo all weekend! Yahoo's everywhere, so it was nice to ease up into the lower water and get away from everyone. The bite was HOT! mostly fishing classic nymph rigs.. two flies and a split shot. An attractor with a soft hackle below it has been killer. As the afternoon went on, we had to chase our water window down river. The key is to stay in front of it. If you let the new water hit you, its hard to ever get back in front of it. Remember if you are not getting down you are not going to catch fish!

McWilliams

Friday and Saturday I had the pleasure of guiding a good client of mine and his family, The McWilliams. Friday morning I fished with Mason and his wife, Lena. They did great. We got to fish a stretch of water that I haven't been able to fish much lately and they hammered them! Lena caught her first Brown Trout which was exciting,as well as a couple of nice chunky rainbows! Saturday morning I fished Mason's parents. It was their first time to fly fish and it was pure magic. I bet we had caught 55 fish by noon. They landed 3 nice browns and had doubles on 8 times! It was just crazy good fun!