I have to say I am so excited that our Tarpon have moved back into our fishing areas inshore here in Progreso Yucatan. After four months we are now catching them again. Yesterday I was so excited as a young 12 year boy hooked up, battled and won against a nice 15 pound tarpon, his first ever.


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Howdy fishing family! Wow, seriously, after a record warmest month in December we are now seeing a record cold in the month of January! Our last boated tarpon were in December and yes folks, by women! Many hook ups after that but since January 2, we have had super cold fronts move over us and have just simply shut down the snook and tarpon. 

I see my daily Facebook pop ups from last year and the years before and lots of tarpon and snook caught...But because of our colder temps that have chille...
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OMG folks, I am so sorry for not posting a blog here in now a solid year! Let me first say thank you to everyone that has fished with over the past trying year. In 2019, we ended up with 311 fishing days with guests. Then covid hit and we ended 2020 with 147, the past year 21', 166, but things are coming back, the tourist are returning as are the cruise ships and we are now staying really booked up..

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Tarpon fishing has been very exciting over the last year, altho at this very moment with our ...
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Howdy folks! What a super crazy time these past months have been! From January 1st to March 30, YucatanSnook was blessed with 102 total fishing excursions with guests...Then all hell broke loose and everything just STOPPED!!! No more cruise ships porting, tourism died and stay at home orders put in place...We all know the story..

Fast forward to June 1st 2020...Things are still very slow to open here in the Yucatan. We have out with guests since June 1 and have had some amazing fishing days fo...
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Howdy folks!! We do hope everyone has enjoyed your summer and was able to bend a few rods. At Progreso Fishing Tours, we have been blessed these past few months with lots of bent rods for our guests. Snook, tarpon, speckled sea trout, barracuda, jacks, all our inshore fish have been really active and will be for months to come...the coolest think about our area, ALL these fish are here year round..

I do have to admit tho, the most awesome thing that has happened was my beautiful wife Jennifer,...
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Howdy folks, well if you have never been fishing here in the Yucatan of Mexico, you just do not know what you are missing!! The tarpon, snook, speckled sea trout and barracuda are our target fish and we have been catching them all thru the winter and spring months. Serving the local, sportsman and cruise ship guests for now 9 plus years, each year seems to get better and better...Tarpon, we get to catch year round..Snook are a tad difficult to catch but available and the speckled sea trout ar...
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I must admit, to say ´winter´ here is just funny.....80 to 90 degrees is just not winter time....but here in Progreso Mexico this what we have to deal with....this is why so many folks travel and ´winter´ here in the Yucatan these months....The fishing here in the winter....freekin awesome folks....we are blessed to be able to catch tarpon year round here, snook have began moving in and we have over the last two days from this post caught a 3.5 and 4 pound snook....



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Howdy folks, welcome to our fishing blog...I am very sorry that I do not update this regularly, so please forgive me, the fishing here is so awesome and I am very busy with our guests!!! But here it is, the September and October Yucatan fishing Report from YucatanSnook.com. 

Tarpon baby....the Tarpon have been in since May and will stay in thru December...(we are hoping)...Since May 1st we have had well over 60 hook ups and 20 plus pics with the Tarpon....The speckled sea trout played with us ...
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Howdy folks, well this summer here in Progreso has been really awesome...We have had since May 1st 33 tarpon hook ups and a dozen photos with the fish. The specks are always on and some big fish have been caught which is typical for the summer months in our shallow back water lagoon.



Tarpon are both in the marina area and back in the lagoon...we are catching the 20 to 50 pound range and on light action tackle, the fight is a blast.



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I am sorry for not posting more here in our blog but seriously I am fishing so much, not a lot of time after relaxation to get to it....but here is is....As always the fishing here is has been awesome as folks can read from our TripAdvisor reviews. The speckled sea trout here are always on and we are always catching 30 to 60 fish per outing and a number of 2 and 3 plus pounders. On the Okuma light action rod and reels the fight is a blast.



As my notes stated over the past 3 years the Tarpon be...
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Howdy everyone, if you are following our posts here very sorry for not posting in the past months....As it turns out we have been so busy fishing with folks. Lat year we hosted 114 tours and so far this year we have already hosted 92....going to be an awesome year for YucatanSnook Fishing tours and we are so excited....The speckled sea trout this winter and spring have been so awesome to fight. Seems we always have days of 30 fish or more with only a few off days if that. 



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Well as you can see by my last blog post being in May, we have been real busy!!! Fishing all spring and the summer has been awesome. Lots and lots of people from all around the world have visited and we have caught lots of fish. The past two months has been a tad tough as the water has gone to a tea color. Even tho we are still finding pockets of clean clear water, the fishing has not been the best. It is picking up tho as the water is starting to clean up and that makes for awesome winter se...
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Since the first of the year, the fishing here in the Yucatan of Mexico, specifically in Chelem/Chuburna, Yucatan Mexico, has been soooo awesome. Mind you the name of my website is YucatanSnook, no Snook have been caught so far this year and the awesome Tarpon won't move in till June or so. BUT, the Speckled Sea Trout have been ON! We have caught large numbers of fish and many well over the 2 pound mark and many more over 3 pounds. On light tackle and top water lures, the action is a blast! 

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First I have to say the fishing so far this year in the Ria here in Chelem Yucatan Mexico has been awesome. Today, March 5th, has again proved that to be true. With 17 speckled sea trout caught, all on top water popping lures, the action was a blast had by all 4 of us.



So far though this year no tarpon or snook, which is normal as we won't see them return to the Ria in masses until the early summer months thru the fall. But as you can see the Specks have been awesome. Using the light action ge...
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What a beautiful Saturday this turned out to be. The forecasters for sure got it right. Light westerly wind, cool temps, and when this happens, the BIG trout turn on. Speckled Sea Trout that is. They are abundant back in the Ria and today the big ones showed up indeed.

Larry, his wife Sherry and I caught a total of 15 trout, 5 we threw back and of the final 10, 6 were over 2 pounds, one at 2.6 and the last caught by myself, 3.6 pounds, ranks as one of the biggies caught here in the past four y...
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Ok, ok, ok, I know it has been since May since I posted a fishing report. Forgive me, been really busy and not much of a writer. The fishing since the spring here in Ria has been for the most part awesome as it always is. Don't get me wrong, because of tidal, weather and water clarity, the fishing sometimes is more like fishing instead of catching. I would step out and say that 90% of the times we have had clients out or just myself, the fishing is AWESOME.

Top water is still the lure of choi...
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Here in the Yucatan of Mexico, the fishing has turned to freekin awesome!! With the winter Nortes behind us, the water back in the Ria has cleared up and the big fish have returned. We had clients a few weeks ago and caught 17 sea trout, with myself catching the largest I have ever caught back there, a 6 pound lunker. The coolest part of it, it is with all top water hard plastic lures. The explosions when these fish hit is so exciting!! 



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January here in the Yucatan can be tricky for catching a good calm day to actually go fishing. Norte's as they are called here, or a cold front, always seems to come from the northeast and can blow up to 20 km an hour, making ocean fishing out of the question. If it is not raining, then Ria fishing can still be possible on the down side of the mangroves. The bite is tough, snook and tarpon seem to stop, you can see them in the shallows, but they are a tough bite when a Norte is over head. The...
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The key to tarpon fishing is keeping your presentation as natural as possible. Tarpon are fish with a very keen awareness of their surroundings. I learned much about tarpon a long time ago in Florida. I was staying in a place off a saltwater lake that was teaming with tarpon in the twenty to fifty pound range. It was my first time fishing for tarpon. You could see them swimming in the water but whenever I place bait near them they would not grab it. I noticed they would swim by areas that I w...
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  SKIPPIN' AND POPPIN' AND MANGROVE MIGRAINES

SCIENTISTS REMAIN AMBIGUOUS on whether it's possible for a mangrove to reach out and grab a snook plug. But personally, I'm convinced. I've seen them do it many times.

In fact, I suspect that the mangrove was genetically engineered by a crazed snook-plug manufacturer, for the express purpose of maximizing his sales. That's the only explanation of a tree that grows with its twisti...

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