Fishing Reports

Great news the Florida Wildlife Commission (FWC) has approved no changes for the 2017 Scallop Season in Citrus County. This year’s season will begin on Saturday, July 1st and end on Sunday, September 24th. Florida’s scallop fishery has been open only to recreational harvest since commercial harvest and sale was prohibited in 1994. The daily…

Only One Spot Left Available! Here’s the information on the first Panama adventure of the winter! This first adventure is during peak billfish season!!! We depart on Saturday, January 21, 2017 and return on Sunday, January 29, 2017, nonstop flight from Orlando to Panama City. We arrive at the Hooked on Panama Lodge on Saturday,…

I’d like to thank everyone for their prayers, concerns, and well wishes! We are getting back to normal, (if there is a normal in Homosassa), and back to business doing charters as if nothing has happened!! Thanks again we really do appreciate the love, it meant tons!!! Homosassa Scallop Season – 2016 This has been…

The article below was written by Diane Bodard of www.NatureCoaster.com after her scalloping adventure on July 7, 2016 with Captain “Red ED”. NatureCoaster.com is a weekly newsletter about what’s happening in Florida’s Nature Coast! Diane, thank you for the permission to republish your excellent article. Be a Nature Coaster! It was early – much earlier…

Scallops, Scallops and more Scallops!! Just a few day before scallop season opens on Saturday, June 25th and runs through September 24th! This is another exciting time of the year here in Citrus County, the Scallop Capital of Florida, as folks arrive from all over to experience what’s best described as an “Underwater Easter Egg…

It’s a fun and exciting time of the year to be here on Florida’s Nature Coast! Grouper, Cobia, Redfish, Trout, Flounder, Spanish Mackerel, Mangrove Snapper, Grunts, Black Sea Bass, Tarpon and last but not least Scallops, Scallops, and more Scallops are all very strong possibilities in the month of June! Gag & Black Grouper season…

Many of you that know me well know that I do my imitation of a “snowbird” and do my best to avoid winter! Once it gets below 70, I’m looking to head south. This winter I spent time in two of my favorite places Islamorada and Costa Rica. While fishing with Captain Rich Mitchell in…

The invitation below may have moved Cuba ahead of Panama on my bucket list! This sounds like an amazing first class adventure in a country that has had basically no fishing pressure!! Bonefish, Permit & Tarpon in virgin waters equals a Cuban Grand Slam!! Picture a large tropical island with vast wilderness flats bordering virgin…

First, I’d like to thank all of my friends and clients who made another Scallop Season enjoyable and fun! It really is just like “An Underwater Easter Egg Hunt”! I’d also like to dedicate this Scallop season to the Citrus County Chronicle and their prediction of a horrible season, not even close to being an…

Happy Fourth of July! Hope everyone has a fun and safe holiday. Please be extra careful, especially if you’re going to be on the water here in Old Homosassa, as it’s always out of control crazy with all the boats on the water and with all the people in the water scalloping. As most of…