Spanish Fly TV - Capt. Jose Wejebe

Costa Del Mar photo shoot in the Dry Tortugas A group of us had come to the Dry Tortugas to do a shoot for Costa del Mar on Wild Florida. Little did we know that we would find out that there are many ways to define the word "wild". More...	Dry Tortugas Photo Shoot

What do Kiteboarding and the Bahamas have in common? Kiteboarding is a new water-sport that incorporates elements of windsurfing and wakeboarding. Basically a rider uses a kite and the power of the wind to propel themselves across the water on a board similar to a wakeboard. I had been taking lessons for a while with an organization called the Kitehouse out of Key West. More...	Kiteboarding at Rum Cay, Bahamas

Chris Ross, Photographer There are many photographers who spend time in the outdoors and few who can capture the the real feel of some of the outdoor scenes. I got a chance to meet one of those few on a Costa del Mar shoot in the Dry Tortugas. Chris Ross was the photographer on the shoot what impressed me about him was the ability to be looking in the right direction at the right time to capture just the right image.	See More Photos by Chris Ross

Urban Nature, Banana River Florida My name is Derek Redwine. After many years of being friends with Jose Wejebe, he recently asked me if my family and I would be interested in doing a fishing show with him. After I picked myself up off the ground, we talked through some ideas. Jose made it clear he really just wanted us to do what we do. This was very special to us because he wasn't asking us to be a fishing guide, captain, or expert on the river...he was just asking us to be a family and show him how we like to explore the outdoors and pass on our passion on to our child.	Read about the experience from the Redwine's point of view

Plane is done and Flying! After years of hard work and testing, the plane is finally done and has been put to the test. The goal was to build a plane that could fly far, fast, and heavy. It comes from a kit plane manufacturer known as Compair and you build it together with a company known as Composite Technologies. We built it from the ground up with exploration, filming and fishing in mind.	Check out the maiden flight of the new Spanish "Fly"

The Road Less Traveled The new series "The Road Less Traveled" shows Jose and friends from shore to sea and back again, taking viewers on a journey of exploration and discovery. Airing on Costa Del Mar's new media portal called Channel C, new episodes are being added frequently so visit often! CLICK HERE FOR SERIES TRAILER Visit CostaChannelC.com Now

Madfin Shark Tournament The Madfin Shark Tournament created quite a buzz last year and recently we got done filming the 2nd season complete with helicopter aerial, boat and underwater cameras. Madfin is an all release tournament where basically the sharks try to bite you and you have to treat them nice as you release them! The series start airing on Sunday April 8th at 9:30AM Eastern and continue from there...	CLICK HERE FOR INFO, TRAILER, & SHOW SCHEDULE

Michael Mummert & Make a Wish I have had the good fortune to meet lot's of incredible people in my life. Some of the more impressive ones have come from the most unusual places. Meet Michael Mummert, a brave little man. Michael is 7 years old and has been diagnosed with Cerebral Palsy...	CLICK HERE TO SEE THE FULL STORY

Butterfly Fishing Key West We went out today just with the intent to locate some new bottom for fishing and maybe do a little underwater filming. The Shimano group is in town so Rush Maltz (a Key West Captain and friend) and I took out Dave Pfieffer, Pat Smith, Jeff and Bryan out to some remote places and started looking for fish...	CLICK HERE TO SEE THE FULL STORY

Jose Responds to a Viewer "I have been a regular viewer of "Spanish Fly" for several years now, even to the point of using my TiVo unit to continue to follow the show as ESPN assigned it progressively more obscure time slots..."	CLICK HERE TO SEE THE FULL STORY

Building A New Airplane III Getting closer now, wings are done and in a separate area to be attached later. Landing gear is on and controls in. Now the plane gets painted before it goes to the avionics department where the instruments for navigation and engine functions get put into the panel. Jose Wejebe	CLICK HERE TO SEE FULL STORY

Crooked Island Here are some more pics from Crooked, while we were there a drug run gone bad ended with 3 guys stranded on Bird Rock ( a little rock island with only a defunked light house on it and nothing else.) Jose Wejebe	CLICK HERE TO SEE FULL STORY

Building A New Airplane II Things are moving right along with the building of the airplane. Sounds scary at first, the though of actually building a plane, but the guys at Aerocomp and Composite Technologies have really made it seem... well.... maybe not easy, but possible. Jose Wejebe	CLICK HERE TO SEE FULL STORY

Bahia La Tortuga, Mexico Recently I went on a exploratory adventure to a remote fishing lodge called Bahia la Tortuga located in the fishing village of Puerto Vicente, which is on the Pacific side of Mexico. John Lorenz and his lovely wife, Angie, were the best hosts anyone could have, serving some of the best Mexican dishes and really making us feel at home in their place. Jose Wejebe	CLICK HERE TO SEE FULL STORY

Make A wish Foundation I just got done fishing with a remarkable young man by the name of Jonathan Nitch. I met Jonathan through the efforts of the Make-A-Wish Foundation, an awesome charity that grants the wishes of children with life-threatening medical conditions. Jose Wejebe	CLICK HERE TO SEE FULL STORY

Deep jigging Deep jigging has always been a very productive way of catching fish all up and down the water column. Traditionally most of that has been done with a large heavy bucktail or nylon jig. The jig is dropped to the bottom and then retrieve to the surface. Jose Wejebe	CLICK HERE TO SEE FULL STORY

Building A New Airplane I Just starting the process of building a new airplane with the folks at Aerocomp Inc. The plane is built with composite materials much like a boat and you put it together with the help the builder assist program. This is not just your ordinary plane as it has high speed cruise and great low speed capabilities, in short , you can get there fast and land/takeoff in the tiniest runways. Not only that but you can add floats to convert it into a seaplane. Pretty spectacular. The whole project takes about 4 or 5 months and we'll be showing you the progress as it comes together. Jose Wejebe	CLICK HERE TO SEE FULL STORY

Louisiana Redfishing The last shoot we did was in February out of Slidell, Louisiana. There we fished with a guide named Gary Taylor. Gary has a pretty cool gig where he has a 32’ ft Louisiana Skiff, which is a true Louisiana Bayou boat. On the back of the boat is a ramp-like trailer built into the back of it where he winches up his smaller Hell’s Bay skiff. He runs across some really rough open waters of the Gulf with his big boat and he launches his little skiff when he gets to the remote sheltered waters of the fishing areas.	CLICK HERE TO SEE FULL STORY

New Spanish Fly Boat Under Construction I am currently working with SeeVee boats to build the new Spanish Fly. It is going to be a 34’, center console with triple Mercury Verados. I have never been a fan of the hype of triple engines boats, until I rode in that same boat and was really impressed with the performance, balance and speed of the whole rig. I took it a step further to do the math on it and discovered some interesting performance results. I found at slow speeds, twin-engine boats are more fuel-efficient than triples, but once you get past 32mph, the triple engines are exactly the same fuel economy as doubles. And then once you get past 40 mph, the triples are actually more fuel-efficient than the doubles! I am definitely not into the show of having triples, but for what I do, it just makes sense. In my offshore boating, I really like making long, dramatic offshore runs to more remote places like the Crooked Island in the Bahamas or Isla Mujeres in Mexico. For me, this boat is clearly more functional with triples than doubles. Not only for the functional and economical use, triple engines provide an additional safety factor. If there is a problem and you have to get home on two motors, you can get home at 40 mph versus 10 or 12 mph on one motor - and that’s important when you are 500 miles from home. Make sure to check back to see the progress of the new Spanish Fly boat...	CLICK HERE TO SEE FULL STORY

Shimano’s New Products Shimano had their annual customer meetings in Key West in May. I got to be a fly on the wall and attend some of their meetings. I was able to check out their new products for the upcoming year. Some of the stuff, no one knows about or even has been announced yet, so it was really cool. I took some video at the conference and will be showing viewers some sneak peeks on our website of what’s to come from Shimano. Stay tuned…