May 25, 2010 - Tarpon Fishing at Cudjoe Key

We met up with Capt Bob from Double Haul Charters and headed out in his Maverick HPX skiff. Debbi had never caught a tarpon before, so she was first on the rod.

It didn't take long to get bit and Debbi reeled in her first Jack Crevalle. Soon after that, Debbi was in for a 1 hour battle with a tarpon in the 80-90 lb class.

Later, I hooked into a tarpon as well, but after a hectic battle around the bridge pilings, the hook eventually pulled.

Here is a short video

Tarpon Fishing - May 25, 2010 - Cudjoe Key from Brett Dunn on Vimeo.

May 24, 2010 - Key West

Our first day of fishing on this vacation, turned out to be our best.

We hooked up with Bill Wallace from Fish Key West Florida Charters on a 33 ft Sea Vee. This was a very nice, dry and comfortable center console with a head and twin 250 4 strokes. You can find their info here

The plan was to bottom fish and see what we could catch. Within minutes of dropping the first chum bag, we had fish all around the boat. It didn't take long for the Yellow tail snappers to show up and boy were they big!

As the snapper fishing heated up, we started dropping heavy rods down for mutton snappers and grouper. We got one big mutton to the boat, but lost a few larger fish...presumably grouper.

Then the sharks got thick and we lost 6-10 fish to them. So, we used a snapper head that a shark left us and dropped it down. Debbi has always wanted to catch a shark, so there was no question as to who got to reel it in :)

Check out this short video...

Key West Fishing - May 25, 2010 Outcast from Brett Dunn on Vimeo.

May 7 & 8, 2010 Susquehanna River

Friday morning was supposed to be cloudy and the river level was looking good. So, I took off of work in the morning and hit the river. The plan was to fish until about 11:00 am, but the fishing was cut short because I broke my trolling motor prop on a rock...ugh! I know, I know...you should always have a spare, but I didn't.

Anyway, the fishing was pretty darned good for the 2 hours or so that I fished. I ended up with something like 10 smallies. Caught several in the 3-4 lb range.

The pattern was post-spawn, moving water, super shallow, in all of the normal feeding positions.

Caught fish on spinnerbaits and swimbaits, as usual. No reason to throw tubes and senko's when they are this aggressive.

Saturday, Debbi and went out. We did well with spinnerbaits from 8 am until about 10 am...then it got REALLY windy! It was so windy that we had no time to take pic's or video's, or risk banging into rocks. We finally gave in to the wind and went home. Again...something like 10 fish, only got a couple of video. Debbi got the biggest fish at 4 lbs 1 oz.

Smallmouth bass fishing on Susquehanna River 5-7-10 from Brett Dunn on Vimeo.

Sunday, May 2, 2010 - Susquehanna River

It's been so darned hot for 3 days that I decided to get out there at sunrise today. I got up at 5:00 and was in the water by 6:00 am.

Only fished until about 10:00 am, because it had already gotten up to over 80 degrees and boy was it humid.

It was a pretty morning and started off really well with a fish on my first cast! Ended up with 10 smallies. Nothing real big. Also caught 2 walleyes.

I sure hate when the spring time fishing comes to an end. I'm afraid we're only about a week or two away from summer patterns.

Susquehanna River Smallmouth fishing May 2, 2010 from Brett Dunn on Vimeo.

Saturday, May 1st, 2010

Debbi wanted to go fishing, but refuses to get up early on the weekends...I'm working on that with her, LOL

So, we didn't get to the river until almost 9:00 am. It was ridiculously hot for May 1st...about 88 degrees.

Water temps were in the 61-63 range. Water is still dirty on the eastern half.

Debbi ended up with 4 smallies and I ended with about a dozen. We worked hard for those 16 fish! Covered ALOT of water and made ALOT of casts.

Only took a couple of pic's today.

April 30, 2010

Decided to leave work early today and take Dad fishing. We got to the river at about 2:45 pm or so and fished until about 6:30 pm.

Got on some fish. I ended up with 15 and Dad had 8. No monsters....biggest fish were in the 18-19 inch (3.5 lb) range.

Water temps were around 60.
Air temps were in the 70's

All fish were post spawn and in moving water. Most were on spinnerbaits with a few on swimbaits.

Hard to get excited with no big fish, but it's better than working...that's for sure. Didn't even bother taking pic's today.

Til next time...fish on!