Sunday, September 2, 2012

Yesterday most boats came in with nothing. I Hurd captains complaining on my way out this morning. so I figured I need to find a piece of wood floating ( needle in the haystack ) so I headed out deep 26 miles out. A fish came up on the teaser. my mate sean hooked him up, at that point the rigger went off but nothing was there, so I turned the boat and from the tower I saw 2 birds, as I got close to them  I saw there was a nice school of fish. We hooked 4 more on 20 lbs spinning Tackeal then the school left. By the way they were acting I figured there had to be a turtle or board in the area. So I  swing the boat around again. From the tower I saw some flying fish getting up, so I headed towards them, as I got close I spotted the fish and the stick in the water striking 6 inches out. Then it was game on! There was nice fish, big gaffers and nice size schoolies. We batted 1000 percent today, we managed to fill the box with every last one of them. all I can say is good thing I had 2 good luck charms on my boat (Tracee, and Nicole)! Big thanks out to Matt, Drew, Tracee and Nicole.

Thursday, August 2, 2012



Islamorada fishing report by Capt Kevin Brown aboard the charter boat Gold Reserve 8/01/12
 Well I have to tell you that it was one of the toughest weeks I have ever seen in 23 years as far as dolphin fishing goes. The last 3 days I had the pleaser of fishing with a great family out of Texas.  The Hinckley’s - sons David and Matt father Jeff and our good luck charm Jana (aka) Mom
All I can say is if I had to fish a couple of tuff days with someone I am glad it was these guys. Are first day we anchored on the reef and caught some yellowtail, grouper and cero mackerel. Then at the end of the day we caught this monster barracuda. On our second day we went offshore and hit a school of small dolphin then we headed to the Islamorada hump and caught a couple of nice black Finn tunas. Finally on our 3rd day we went out and the dolphin were back. Big patches of weeds for miles. We hit a couple of small schools and then we found  a pack of some real nice ones. The rest of the day we picked away all day and put a nice catch together. Big thanks out to the Hinckley’s for having patient on the fishing


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Thursday, July 19, 2012




Islamorada fishing Report from Capt Kevin Brown aboard the charter boat gold reserve 7/19/12

Today I took my good friends from Cabo san Lucas out fishing. Nancy, John, Tim and marry And showed them how we do it here on the east coast. Islamorada style!!

We stopped for live bait because the fish are not eating well. After  throwing  the net one time we had 75 cigar minnows and we were off. We trolled out to 19 miles and the fish were everywhere. Big schools of heavy lifters and gaffers 100 fish in a school. Like I suspected the fish would not eat anything but live bait. Luckily for us we took 10 minutes to catch them. They pulled on mahi until their arms fell off and asked me to stop . I made them catch a couple more and we went home with are box full. Just another awesome day on the gold reserve



Thank you

Capt Kevin Brown

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Tuesday, July 17, 2012



Islamorada fishing report from Capt Kevin aboard the charter boat gold reserve

On Monday 7/16/12 we took out the smith family offshore. Fishing started off slow. We got out about 25 miles offshore and we hooked into a blue marlin. He came up jumping and shaking his head took out allot of line and then we pulled the hook. Very exciting never the less. I decided to keep going offshore out at 30 miles we finally ran into some weed and birds . 10 minutes into the weed we found the south American high flier that broke loose from a long line. It was loaded up with fish gaffer and heavy lifters it was fast action for over an hour. The smith kids wanted the high flier. So we put it on the boat and brought it home. That night the 2 strobe lights on it went on in their back yard . pretty cool

Islamorada fishing report from Capt Kevin aboard the charter boat gold reserve

On Monday 7/17/12 today I took out my nephew Patrice and niece livia and Patrick girlfriend  visiting from Switzerland there were large schools of nice size fish every were from 19 to 25 miles out. Weather was great. Nice calm seas

Double header tarpon

Thank you

Capt Kevin Brown

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Friday, July 6, 2012


Islamorada Fishing report from Capt Kevin Brown aboard the charter boat Gold Reserve

Friday July 6th the seas were calm .There was a nice east 15 mile  hour wind. We got out 12 miles and there were  schools of mahi every were. 100 to 300 fish in every school. Most of them were small but they eat well and are allot of fun on 12 lbs. spin with the jigs. There were bigger fish and we managed to catch a rack of them but allot of them would not eat. not even the live bait. The black fin tuna also were biting we had a family from Texas on the boat and fun was had by all.



Thank you

Capt Kevin Brown

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Tuesday, July 3, 2012



Islamorada fishing Report from Captain Kevin Brown aboard the charter boat Gold Reserve.

Today we headed out. Flat calm seas. We made a pass by the Islamorada hump and Caught some sushi :) Then Are first encounter was a 4 banger of big gaffers. We throe live bait on them hooked 2 cows and a 30 lb bull dolphin. On  20lb spin and the 4th fish would not eat. Anyways we gaffed the 2 cows and then the bull went throe the 50 lb leader :( after that it was slow. On are way back in we got bit off by a big wahoo :( then we found a big tree and landed 8 schoolies there were more there but with the full moon none of the fish were eating well. Was a nice day with nice people. The gold reserve is back out doing 2 evening trips tonight for tarpon and sharks



Thank you

Capt. Kevin Brown

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Sunday, July 1, 2012



Islamorada fishing report from Capt Kevin Brown aboard the charter boat Gold Reserve 6/31/12

On are evening trip we went 2 for 3 on the tarpon and also landed 4 sharks in 3 hours

7/1/12 This morning we headed out. The seas were very calm the dolphin bite was slow yesterday so I headed for the Islamorada Hump. Aboard I had a father Paul and his 2 young sons .On our way out we missed a big wahoo L. But when we got to the hump the black fin tuna were biting good and it was none stop action the hole time we were there. Catching these fish on 20lb spinning tackle is a blast. Anyways while we were catching the tuna a 200lbs blue marlin came from under the boat and engulfed one of our tuna. This blue marlin came up tail walking 50 feet off our transom what an awesome site!!! This alone was worth going out there. Anyways on the way home we caught a monster barracuda to end the day. Paul and his 2 sons will be going back out on the Gold Reserve Tuesday evening to catch tarpon and sharks.






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