I got a few fly strikes blindcasting to the rocks……..



Mrs. Mingo gets in on the action……….





The trevally and snapper prowl the rocks looking for fish that get the sh!t beat out of them by waves. This type of fishing is not for everyone. It is highly addictive and awesome but it requires hours of nonstop casts with heavy lures in searing heat in an open boat. Those who like their fishing on the sedate and lazy side need not apply…..this would kill someone who wants to sit on their ass all day. Photos can be deceiving, they create the impression of nonstop, easy action. Nothing could be farther from then truth. We ground it out hard and earned every single fish we hooked on lures and flies.….







Rob was on fire……



My wife doing battle with another gorgeous trevally…..





Robbo hooked a hefty cubera…..





Gangsta man needs a beer after that!!!




I was aching to hook a trevally on my flyrod and do battle with one of these gorgeous creatures. After a lot of trial and error, we hit on a bait and switch formula that resulted in several hookups. Robbo would toss his popper deep into the furthest reaches of a cove, inlet or boiler rock and I would double haul my cast as far as I could so my fly landed two to three feet to the right of his retrieve path.





HELL YEAH!!!!!






When we would see a hot pack of trevally or snapper or roosters chasing his popper, I’d wait for his lure to get within 10 feet of my fly and I would start a super-fast sweeping retrieve using my left hand and my rod tip to help speed up the sweeps so they were as fast as I could humanly make them. Hot fish need a hot fly and this was the only retrieve they would chase down and kill…….it worked!





A barred pargo crashed the party…….





Trevally do NOT come in easily…..forget about coho, the power of these beasts will shock you.





.Local fishermen wanting beer……



The peanut gallery in the other boat cruising in to see how we were doing…..



This guy came in spoiling for a fight!