MONSTER FLORIDA BASS

Heading for a family vacation to Disney World in Orlando Florida and want to get into some monster bass?  Give Capt Eddie Bussard a call at 18002415314.  Capt Eddie runs the Bass Challenger Guide Service while fishing areas such as the St. Johns River and Lake Toho which are minutes from Orlando.  Currently the fishing is red hot using top water lures and Eddie is expecting a fantastic upcoming shiner season for monster largemouths.  Eddie will pick you up at your local hotel and give you a great day of fishing for monster largemouths.  Check out his website at www.basschallenger.com

YELLOW LAKE, WISCONSIN LAKE STURGEON

Yellow Lake which is located in Webster, Wisconsin holds some of the largest lake sturgeon around.  In early September, an angler hooked and released back into Yellow Lake a monster sturgeon which measured 88 inches and weighed 200 pounds.  The angler however was fishing for walleye and accidentally snagged the beast which does not allow him to qualify for the state record which is at 170 pounds.
On September 22 about 30 anglers held a sturgeon tournament knowing this record was still alive and swimming in Yellow Lake.  For the day 33 sturgeon we landed and released with the largest sturgeon measuring 60 1/8 inches allowing for a winning prize of $1000.
The sturgeon season last throughout the month of September.  Top fishing tactics are setting nightcrawlers on the bottom in deep holes.  One sturgeon measuring 60 inches or over can be kept provided you purchase a sturgeon tag.
Yellow Lake is one of the few places where sturgeon are constantly landed on hook and line.  If sturgeon is on your wish list, make sure to visit Yellow Lake next September

ALASKA PENINSULA/ PUMICE CREEK LODGE

For the 24th consectutive year, I had the opportunity to fish for monster silver salmon on the Alaska Peninsula during Sept 7th to 15th. Here, the largest silver salmon in the world swim! 

I fished out of Gary LaRose's Pumice Creek Lodge which is located about an hours flight down the Peninsula from the town of King Salmon.

Gary offers flyouts to either Lava Creek for world class arctic char fishing or to the Cinder River for perhaps the best silver salmon fishing in the world.
The first day we opted to fish Lava Creek for char and all 4 of us landed over 50 char.

The rest of the week we spent fishing silver salmon on the Cinder River. My best day was 93 silvers landed and everyone left with sore arms.

In all, one of the best fishing trips I have taken worldwide. Am heading back next September, so if intersted in joining my group please let  me know.  For more information check out www.garylarose.com

La Zona FOR MONSTER GOLDEN DORADO

With the start of spring in the Southern Hemisphere, the golden dorado are feeding aggressively before the spawning cycle occurs.  Here is when you have a great chance of catching that monster golden dorado you have been dreaming of.  As I have written in numerous posts, La Zona Lodge on the Uruguary River boarding Argentina and Uruguary offers the best possibility.  La Zona Lodge has A+ guides who know where the monster dorado will be.  The lodge offers fishing for up to 6 rods with 2 boats fishing inside the zone near the Salto Grande Dam on Friday to Monday.  Lodging, food, etc  are the finerst I have experienced throughout my fishing adventures worldwide.
La Zona Lodge books quickly so book soon for 2013 or see if there are any last minute cancellations.

Contact Steve Yatomi at zato1@earthlink.net or check out his site at www.adventuretravelalliance.com

ALASKA PENINSULA SIVER SALMON

With the weather finally starting to cool down in the Midwest and other parts of the USA, the attention in Alaska turns to silver salmon.  These brutes are found in numbers and huge size on the rivers of the remote Alaska Peninsula.  I have fished the Peninsula for over 20 years always targeting large silvers up to 20lbs.  I have found the best place is the remote Peninsula rivers fished out of the little known Pumice Creek Lodge which is operated by Gary LaRose, wwwgarylarose.com.  Gary has been in lodge/guiding business for years and grew up in the fishing/hunting environment as his father owed a few lodges during his upbringing.  Gary offers daily flyouts to the Cinder River for big silvers which are easily landed on either spinning, casting or fly equipment.  Also if your really nice to Gary perhaps he will take you for a day trip to Amber Bay which is where some of the largest silvers on earth swim!

I have a group heading for arm to arm combat with silvers shortly.  If intersted in a last minute trip or perhaps next season get in touch with me soon.

PAPUA NEW GUINEA

During my recent fishing adventure to Papua New Guinea, the group stayed with the locals in their small village under the guidanace of Jason Yip, www.pngsportfishing.org.  The tribal people of Papua New Guinea get a bad rap by falsely being said to be mean, unrespectful, etc.  I found all of the tribes we encountered to be very friendly. Each day while travelling down the river we would pass by various villages of which the locals would run out of their huts to wave hello to us.  I was able to visit a local school which was practically a roof with a few boards and a blackboard.  The students put on a great show for us and the locals invited us into their village.  As you have read in the other posts, the fishing in Papua New Guinea is awesome!  However, one of the favorite parts of my trip was meeting the local tribes. 
During the trip we gave out numerous shirts, hats, duffel bags, notebooks, and soccer balls to the various tribes due to generous donations by Cargill and Tom Ashby of the American Legacy Fishing Company.  Our group sent in donations to help buy the local village school some much needed supplies.
Papua New Guinea is probably the last remaining unexplored land on earth.  Headhunters and cannibals still exist with tribes having never encountered an outsider.  How long will this last, God only knows, so get to PNG as soon as possible for dream trip of your lifetime.
Contact Steve Yatomi at www.adventuretravelalliance.com for more information on PNG and other fantastic fishing destinations throughout the world!

BARRAMUNDI OF PAPUA NEW GUINEA

During our recent fishing adventure to the jungles of Papua New Guinea for black bass, we also encountered another battler, the barramundi.  The barramundi is closely related to a snook and Nile perch.  One of the barras most notable characteristics is its pinkish-red eyes which glow brilliantly at night.  Barras are extremely tough fighters and often use head shaking  jeaps in an attempt to toss a lure.  Our top lures for the barras were Super Shad Raps and Rapala Mag15.  Barramundi are excellent food fish.  Barras are mostly caught trolling shorelines and casting among the snags where the big barras hide.  The current world record according to the IGFA is a monster 98 lb 6 oz caught out of Queensland Australia.  For more information on Papua New Guinea black bass and barramundi fishing contact Steve Yatomi at
www.adventuretravelalliance.com or email him at zato1@earthlink.net.  Steve currently is leading a group Nov 2 to 11th and has 1 opening remaining.