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, 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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Howdy folks! Well both May and June since the tarpon have moved into our area, the fishing has been both super exciting and frustrating as well..Frustrating because in the past two months, we have had 21 tarpon hook ups but only 6 photographs. As you know they are very hard to keep hooked and with all that thrashing around it is no wonder why! The coolest thing tho is we get to target the tarpon all the way thru January. 



Not only the tarpon that have been exciting, but the speckled sea trout ...
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Howdy everyone....I hope this blog finds everyone just super swell...Here in Progreso Mexico we have had an awesome winter and early spring...warm weather and awesome fishing...the speckled sea trout have been as always super abundant. Each outing with guests are producing 15 to 60 fish being caught...and as always we promote catch and release and only keeping a few for lunch! 



As each year at this time we begin to get really excited for the return of the Tarpon....weekly we have been checking...
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Can I just say in the beginning here....I so love my job!!!...At YucatanSnook.com we have already exceeded last years tours in our first two months...Last year in the first 58 days we hosted 43 tours, 2018 we have now hit 67 fishing tours. We feel so blessed that our guests are having such a great time while on our watch. The fishing in these first two months has been awesome....Granted we still a few of those crappy fishing days and that as we all know is just part of this sport. We always w...
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What an awesome month December was, not to mention our 2017 year!!! In December we hosted 36 fishing excursions finishing the year with 213 fishing excursion with guests from all over the world!! We feel so blessed that we have become the first choice for backwater fishing here in Progreso, Yucatan Mexico. 



December was a strange month I have to admit...we had days where 30 fish caught in 4 hours was the norm then days where we struggles to get 5 fish on board and everything in between. Super ...
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Howdy from Sunny Mexico. Jen and I hope your Thanksgiving was wonderful and well spent. As for us, are bellies are full and we are feeling so blessed that our fishing business is doing so awesome...thanks to all of you who have fish with us and all the awesome reviews on TripAdvisor about us!!! 



This month has been way awesome and way bad to be honest...It started off superb, with excursions bringing in 30 to 60 trout per outing and numerous tarpon hook ups! But then about 3 weeks ago a strong...
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What a blast the fishing here in the Progreso Mexico area has been over the past months..The Tarpon....wow, we have hooked onto some huge tarpon and have lost a number of them as well. A very tough fish to catch and let me tell you when you do, you just can not stop shaking for an hour. It is a thrill indeed and I feel so blessed to have put a large number of our guest on those big fish and for many their very first in their lives!!!





The tarpon will stay in till around January and so we will c...
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Howdy everyone....Where do I start...ok, August here in the Yucatan of Mexico is always HOT. Progreso is our location as you know and even tho is it always hot and humid here, the weather is unbeatable....365 days of awesome backwater fishing...August has been an unusual month tho....First, earlier this month I personally, while with guest from the Carnival Cruise Ship porting here, caught the record Ria fish for the area at 5.2 pounds... Previous record was held by a dear friend Gary Draper ...
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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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Howdy folks, well the later part of the summer and the fall here in Progreso Mexico has been such a blast to fish. Lots of 5 to 30 pound tarpon have been caught and as always lots and lots of speckled sea trout. The beauty of fishing the Ria with the clear shallow waters plus the amazing bird life and flamings is something every fisher person needs to do while in the area. 



If you are cruising here on a ship, please contact us as we provide the best shore excursion in the area. We pick you up ...
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Welcome to Progreso Fishing Tours.......we have been so busy the past number of months with lots of tours. we thank each and every one of you for fishing with us and the awesome reviews we are receiving on Trip Advisor! The speckled sea trout have been so hungry the past number of months here and will indeed continue over the summer months. It does not take much to learn the top water poppin style of fishing we do here and after a few casts our guest have been catchin fish. With numbers of fi...
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A Very Merry Christmas to all our fishing fans out there!!!!! Cheers to you all indeed! 

Today is Christmas Eve and I feel so blessed that yesterday I received a last minute booking with a couple from Atlanta Georgia. Eric and Ashley got a true taste of top water Ria fishing here in the Yucatan of Mexico. A day full of action with Ashley catching the first fish while we were targeting the tarpon. 



The wind today I have to say was blowing hard, but in the Ria we get no more than a foot swell if ...
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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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First let me say this, i am so pleased to see such clear water back in the Ria. I have fished these waters now for 4 years, and last year I was so shocked to see from December thru March, the water was dirty and cloudy and the fishing sucked! I was turning down tours because I just did not want to takes folks money when I knew the bite was dead. This was due to an abnormal increase in rain fall the late summer before that, as all our water runs underground, it pops up via springs in the mangr...
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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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