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About
Capt. Robert Alan Jaspers
Capt. Robert (Bob) Jaspers is a USCG licensed &
insured fulltime professional inshore sightfishing guide
and third generation native with over 35+ years of local
on-the-water experience, specializing in sightfishing
the shallow grassflats in the northern areas of the
Indian River Lagoon System. His family built a home
in Indian River City (now southern Titusville) in the
1950's and his parents were employed at Kennedy Space
Center from the start of the area’s space program.
Capt. Jaspers has spent decades perfecting his own sightfishing
style & techniques to simplify flatsfishing to its
most basic terms, allowing beginning anglers to understand
what’s happening under the surface of the lagoon’s
waters in a relatively short time to ultimately learn
how to catch more fish. He can teach you in hours what
he spent years learning.
Highly conservation-minded, he is extremely knowledgeable
about the East Central Florida portion of the upper
Indian River Lagoon System, and Florida’s fish,
flora, and fauna. For the past decade, he was involved
in planting hundreds of thousands of mangroves along
the Brevard County area’s Indian River Lagoon
shoreline, and is still involved in a continuing effort
to clean the shoreline of the Merritt Island National
Wildlife Refuge.
Much of his youth was spent in the great outdoors surrounding
Titusville, including the waters, marshes, and woodlands
of the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge and Playalinda
Beach (now owned by NASA and part of the Canaveral National
Seashore) and wandering the shoreline & backwaters
of the St. Johns River and our three actual lagoons
(the Banana River, the upper Indian River & Mosquito
Lagoon).
He spent most of his childhood fishing, camping, surfing,
and exploring the area in search of outdoor adventure
and knowledge. In turn his knowledge of local history,
plant life, and wildlife makes for some very interesting
tales that he is very willing to share with anglers,
children, visitors to the area, and anyone else who’s
interested in what it was like in the East Central Florida
/ Brevard County area 40 years ago!
Capt. Bob became an angler, and later a fishing guide,
because of his love & respect for the Indian River
Lagoon System. He believes strongly in its preservation
and ecological success, which are vital to the survival
of all its plant life, fish, and waters.
He is a member of the Indian River Guides Association,
an amateur naturalist, a trained horticulturist, a bromeliad
grower & collector, and a past Florida Certified
Nursery Professional. He also manages two shallow saltwater
fishing e-mail lists on the Internet; the Central Florida
Flats Anglers (the CFFA) and his newest endeavor, Inshore_Fly.
Please contact him by e-mail if you’re interested
in joining either.
*The Captain doesn’t have a problem with charter
anglers keeping legal fish if they’d like; he
is prepared to, and will, fillet fish for you at the
end of your charter, but he encourages all anglers to
practice CPR- catch, photograph, and release as much
as possible to preserve the lagoon’s resources
& heritage for future generations.
Capt. Robert A. Jaspers ~ USCG #955013 ~ flatstime@cfl.rr.com
321.626.0104 |
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