Howdy folks! If you are reading this then for sure you are looking forward to coming to Progreso Mexico and to fish with us! The fishing here in Progreso, over the past 10 years for me has been so amazing! Inshore, safe, calm water and the tarpon, snook, trout and additional species we catch have been such a blast for our guests. 

Since Covid in 2020, our tours have been coming back strong. The fall is upon us now and we are catching lots of tarpon from 10 to 40 pounds and the trout we're alwa...
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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.


Progreso Fishing Tours is also very excited to welcome Jack Links Latin America as one of new full time product sponsors. Not only will we have waters and gatorades to quench your thirst but now tasty sna...
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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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We are so very honored to be entering our 4th year as Yo-Zuri Lures Yucatan Mexico Ambassadors. Not only do we use the lures to catch out trout, tarpon and snook but each of our 52 EagleClaw reels are spooled with Yo-Zuri Super Braid and Yo-Zuri HD Fluorocarbon line. One my favorite top water lures is the 3D Inshore Pencil... Check out the description here..
The 3D Inshore Pencil is a topwater walking bait with excellent balance for quick starting action around cover. Designed to be fished in ...

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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, please allow me to visually show off the fishing that took place here in Progreso Yucatan Mexico in the first 31 days of 2021..Stay safe ya'll.....

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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 the winter months of 2019 and the first month here in the new year of 2020 has been fantastic..if it is cold where you are, book your stay here in Progreso Mexico as our winters are mild at 70's to 80's F. average...The fishing you ask, tarpon, snook, trout, all year we are blessed to target these species with our main focus on tarpon...The ria is full of trout and beautiful bird life with lots of Flamingos...



Folks if you are visiting via a cruise ship, and you love to fish,...
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Howdy fishing friends! We always take for granted, us able bodied fisher people, but many folks that are handicapped love to fish as well...This story is about my beautiful and amazing wife, Jennifer...Jen has Muscular Dystrophy, is in a wheel chair, does not walk, and very little strength to move around...she does tho move around easily in her assist wheel chair, a non push chair that when she touches the wheels it goes! Also she has a custom built 3 wheel moto she gets around town on and a ...
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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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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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Well first let me say a HUGE Thank You to everyone of you who fished with us in 2016....It was our best year yet at 114 tours. We feel so proud to be able to have served the cruise ship community and local residents for now 6 straight years. 2017 shall prove to be an even better year. 

Fishing over the past few months here has really been awesome! The big tarpon have moved out but still the smaller 5 to 15 pounds stay in year round and we are still targeting them. The barracuda have been real ...
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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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Well folks, all I can say is wow wow wow!!! The fishing the past few months has been awesome here in Progreso, Chelem and Chuburna Mexico´s Ria system....The shallow water lagoon we fish is indeed ON......The speckled sea trout have been amazing and we are catching a lot of fish, like 30 plus per trip and now, as of two weeks ago, the Tarpon have moved in......



Yesterday we had a guest from El Salvador, and he was able to check off his bucket list, a tarpon......even tho we did not catch a hu...
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May and June so far here in our beautiful space of Progreso, Chelem and Chuburna for fishing has been awesome......The Ria or lagoon that sits behind Chelem and Chuburna is a paradise not a lot of people know about.....The fishing, well is just simply awesome......Although we are not here in the Ria a 'trophy' fishing grounds, the speckled sea trout, ranging from dinks to 5 pounds prove to always be exciting to catch on the top water lures that we catch them on....and always on! Not to mentio...
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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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Wow folks, the fishing is awesome..........I am so sorry I have not posted here since December, but we have been really busy. The fishing is keeping us on the water an average of 3 times a week plus we also own and operate a full on Garden Center, maintenance biz and Farmers Market.....So about the FISHING.....the speckled sea trout fishing this year so far has been awesome.....huge trout have been caught on almost every outing! tarpon the past year was fare.....meaning it sucked......dingy w...
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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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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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Light Tackle Tactics for Big Fish

Today everybody uses light tackle for snook. Yet there are still many misconceptions about snook gear.

The most important piece of equipment for catching big snook on light tackle is the rod. Scott uses long stiff rods for several reasons.

First of all the whitebait that is so important to a successful snook trip between March and October can be easily thrown off when casting. Also ...

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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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