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Tampa Tarpon Fly Fishing

My name is Captain Jim Lemke.  I am a U.S.C.G. licensed Captain with more than 25 years of fly fishing experience as a full time guide in the waters in and around the Tampa Bay area. I specialize in Light Tackle Fly Fishing Charters for Snook, Redfish, Trout, Tarpon, Permit, and Bass. I guide on the inshore waters of Tampa Bay, Clearwater, Tarpon Springs, St. Petersburg, and everywhere in between.

Just picture yourself being poled down some of the most pristine grass flats in all of Florida. The beautiful Beaches have crystal clear water for sight casting to Tarpon, the mighty Silver King and Permit.  The mangrove shore lines and brackish creeks hold wily Snook and the expansive grass flats harbor tailing monster Redfish. Great scenes for your fly fishing experience.

Tampa Bay is the secret fishing hole for tarpon. It’s like Las Vegas, it turns on at night, and night fishing for tarpon under the bridges around Tampa really turns on through late spring, summer and fall. This is without a doubt your best chance to catch your first tarpon, or a trophy silver king to remember for a lifetime. Period. Fish over 100lbs are common- see the photo gallery on this site. And remember, we measure these fish here in feet, not inches.

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Trout and Redfish season is going strong.

by Capt Jim January 6, 2012 Captain Jim Lemke

Had a great day on the water testing out a few things on the big boat getting ready for Tarpon Season. I started out on the low incoming tide so i ran over to check out some redfish that i need for Sundays charter i show up and a mullet boat was working the area [...]

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Winter Time Sight Casting for Redfish Seminar at West Marine Tampa, Fl

by Capt Jim January 3, 2012 2011 Salty Fly Tournament

Winter Time Sight Casting for Redfish Seminar at West Marine Thursday, January 19, 2012 6:30pm until 8:00pm West Marine Tampa, FL Learn winter time sight casting with Capt. Jim Lemke with more than 25 years of fly and sight casting fishing experience as a full time guide in the waters in and around the Tampa [...]

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Tampa Bay is Seeing Red Redfish that is

by Capt Jim December 20, 2011 2011 Salty Fly Tournament

28 inch Redfish Fly Fishing Tampa Bay I met up with a friend of mine and fellow Capt Harrison Hodges to take a crack at filming some Redfish on fly. We meet up at the boat ramp at 9:30am after traffic died down. I put the Maverick in and tied on a new shrimp pattern [...]

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Trout and more Trout

by Capt Jim December 10, 2011 Captain Jim Lemke

Had a great couple charters on Friday with the morning trip yielding some big yellow mouth Trout and some Sand Trout along with a few nice Redfish. The afternoon charter was nonstop Trout as fast as a DOA Cal hit the water you had a Trout on. It was crazy for 3 hours straight than [...]

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Pre Front Tampa Bay Redfish on Fly

by Capt Jim December 7, 2011 2011 Salty Fly Tournament

With a cold front moving in late today and a negative tide it made the perfect recipe for lots of Redfish on the long rod. I was so excited about going to throw the fly with fellow Capt. Harrison Hodges that i got up at 4am and head to the ramp to check out the [...]

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Fly Fishing Tampa – A great week for chasing tailing Redfish

by Capt Jim December 6, 2011 Fishing Reports

Fly Fishing Tampa This is going to be a great week for chasing tailing Redfish with the low negative tides all week long. Then off to the trout grounds to get a lot’s of them. The fishing is going to be great over the next few months. If you are looking to go fishing in [...]

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Have a Great Thanksgiving

by Capt Jim November 24, 2011 Home Page

An Email from Capt Jim Lemke   Capt Jim Lemke (813) 917-4989 www.flyfishingtampa.com www.tampatarponfishing.com www.lighttackleadventures.com     Capt. Jim Lemke and his family                             Wish you and your family a Happy Thanksgiving Have a Great Thanksgiving.Best wishes from, Capt Jim Lemke and [...]

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Tying Flies with a Dubbing Brush

by Capt Jim November 14, 2011 Home Page

Tying Flies with a Dubbing Brush by Ron Cavalier A few weeks ago i posted a video of how a Dubbing Brush worked.  Here is part 2 of this video is Tying Flies with the Dubbing Brush. In this video Ron will be tying a Tarpon Toad that i have caught a lot of Tarpon [...]

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Pediatric Cancer Foundation Grand Slam Celebrity Tournament

by Capt Jim October 26, 2011 Fishing Reports

I was one of the lucky guides that has fished this great event for the Pediatric Cancer Foundation for 14 years and have meet some great people that are very generous with their donations to pay to go fish this great 2 day Grand Slam Celebrity Tournament but this year at the Fisherman’s Ball Friday [...]

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Building a Dubbing/Streamer Brush by Ron Cavalier

by Capt Jim October 17, 2011 Home Page

Building a Dubbing/Streamer Brush by Ron Cavalier This was designed and built by Ron Cavalier one of the top fly tiers in the US and ties all my fly’s for my website Fly Fishing Tampa my fly fishing charter business located in the Tampa, FL In this video you will see how it works and [...]

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