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"Catch a Memory!"

Orlando area fishing guide Capt. Jim Ross lands a Mosquito Lagoon redfish
on one of his custom designed "IRFA Signature Series" Lamiglas rods.

 

The Captain

Captain Jim Ross Captain Jim Ross is a United States Coast Guard licensed captain and owner of Fineline Fishing Chartersin Rockledge, Florida. He is a second generation native and full time fishing guide who is on the productive waters of central Florida over 250 days a year. Jim’s understanding of the feeding habits and migratory patterns of the fish he pursues throughout the year has made him one of the most respected fishing guides on Florida's East Coast.
 


Life Long Experience
At a young age, Jim started chasing various near-shore and backwater species with light tackle and has acquired the skills and patience to land massive fish on extremely light gear. Jim has an International Game Fish Association (IGFA) World Record certificate in the Fly Fishing division to show for it. He is also heralded as one of the pioneers credited with bringing the sport of shallow water "sight" fishing to the grass flats of the Indian, Banana, and Mosquito Lagoons in the early 1980’s. For the past decade Captain Jim has been teaching his charter clients these techniques, creating memorable fishing adventures whenever possible.
 


 

Broadcasting Live with Ustream.TV

 

 

 

Skeeter ZX-22 Bay

 

 

Capt. Jim and Capt. Gregg with a big Louisana Redfish

 

 

A Gator Trout!

 

 

Robin with Redfish

 

 

Capt. Jim with a very nice Cobia

 

 

Capt. Jim releases a nice Tarpon

 

 

 

Redfish release

Radio
Because of his angling knowledge, Captain Jim was hired by Florida Sportsman Magazine in 1997 as the host of a live weekly hour-long radio show covering the fishing action on Central Florida's East Coast. Jim hosted this show called "Florida Sportsman Magazine Live" until October of 2009. As host of this show for over twelve years, Jim’s helped educate and influenced hundreds of thousands of anglers from Daytona Beach to Orlando to Ft. Pierce each week. Captain Jim’s newest Radio show called “Catch A Memory” is slated to start transmitting on February 20th 2010 from WMEL 1300 AM. The “Catch A Memory” show will also be an hour-long live radio program covering the fishing action on Florida’s East Coast. Anglers can tune in to AM 1300 to hear Jim and his co-hosts each Saturday morning from 8 to 9 am to hear the latest fishing and new product information available. Captain Jim will also be providing bi-weekly drive time “Angler Updates” on Tuesdays and Thursdays on this station. This show is also available on www.1300wmel.com for worldwide live streaming audio.
Listen in on the player to the left.

Television
For 2010 Captain Jim has joined Capt. Rick Murphy and a host of other top professional guides across the state of Florida on a new television show called the “Chevy Florida Insider Fishing Report”. Captain Jim has been asked to be the East Central reporter for this previously Emmy award winning TV show. Jim will give live reports on the show every Thursday evening and daily reports Sunday through Wednesday on the television shows web site www.Floridainsiderfishingreport.com

 

 

 

 


The Florida Insider Fishing Report TV Show will begin airing April 8th 2010. Viewers can tune in the SunSports Channel on Thursday evenings to find out about the hottest fishing action across the state with live coverage each week.
Reporting as The East Central Florida Regional Expert, Capt. Jim Ross and Capt. Rick Murphy will bring to you an up to date weekly fishing report from our offshore and inshore local waters from Daytona Beach to Palm Bay, Florida.

The Florida Fishing Report is an Emmy winning, fishing talk show with Capt. Rick Murphy as one of the hosts. The show will air LIVE on Sun Sports to close to 7.5 million households for 90 minutes every Thursday evening. Sun Sports will air re-runs of the show three additional times each week.
The Florida Fishing Report’s content is tailor-made for the state of Florida, with a goal of educating anglers on where, how and what to use while fishing. This enables them to spend less time running and more time fishing successfully. Every edition of the show features eight professional captains that each provides a 4-minute live fishing report of what is happening inshore and offshore in their respective areas (8 regions of FL).

Skeeter National Fishing Team Member
In 2008 Skeeter Boats Company celebrated its 60th year of boat building, and Captain Jim was named to the Skeeter boats/Yamaha Motors National Fishing Team. With this Accomplishment he joins a very impressive and exclusive list of professional anglers including Alton Jones-winner of the 2008 Bass Master Classic. For the past two years Capt. Jim has continuously promoted these brands though the various fishing shows, television and Radio shows, and articles both in-print and online that he has been involved with. Capt. Jim is proud to be associated with these top brands and the ever increasing numbers of anglers who have chosen to fish form the deck of a Yamaha powered Skeeter Boat.

Fishing School
In March of 2002 he and a partner conceived and developed the Indian River Fishing Academy. They had thousands of students graduate from this comprehensive fishing school for the six years they ran it. A few of these students have gone on to become tournament anglers and fishing guides. In May of 2006 Jim and his partner released their first DVD, Light Tackle Techniques - Volume 1 though Tightline Productions Inc. It became an instant hit with anglers across the state. This school’s concepts have evolved with time and for 2010 Capt Jim has changes the courses that are available and the name of the school to reflect these changes. The school is now called the Inshore Fishing Academy. www.inshorefishingacademy.com. In 2010 Captain Jim will be teaching these classes solo. He has expanded upon the original schools class ideas and actually created a whole new level of "species specific" courses. These are new in-depth courses designed to help anglers learn how to specifically target speckled trout, redfish, tarpon, cobia, and king mackerel. With seven individual classes to choose from, the new Inshore Fishing Academy courses will help anglers learn at a faster pace than any of Capt. Jim's previous fishing schools. The new Inshore Fishing Academy is now bigger, better and more informative than ever.

Tournaments and Sponsors
Captain Jim competes in various tournaments when he has time and is currently sponsored by Skeeter boats, Yamaha Motors, Lowrance electronics, Tru-Turn Industries, Saltwater Assassin Lures, Carroll Distributing (Bud Light Beer), Lamiglas Rod Company. Rapala Lures, Fins braided Superlines, Shimano reels, Hook Up lures, Pro-Cure bait Scents, Minn Kota trolling motors, Solar Shield sunscreen and Costa Del Mar sun glasses

Tournament Highlights
He has multiple top 25 finishes in the Southern Kingfish Association (SKA), Inshore Fishing Association (IFA), and FLW redfish series professional tournament trails over the past 11 years including being part of the SKA First ever National championship team in the under 23’ Class

 

Bud Light

Pro-Cure Bait Scents

Hookup Lures

Shimano

Lamiglas

Skeeter Boats

Yamaha Mortors

Dan Johnson Custom Saltwater Flies

Lowrance Electronics

Fins Premium Lines

 

Daiichi Hooks

Costa Del Mar Sunglasses

Minnkota Trolling Motors

Rapala Lures

Assassin Lures

 

 

Flambeau Outdoors

 

Capt. Jim's Truck Wrap

 

 


Phone: 321-636-3728

email: captjimross@cfl.rr.com

 

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